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Harry Beck: The Paris Connection. Detail from Harry Beck's 1951 Paris Metro map design (which was rejected by the city's transport authorities).

Harry Beck: The Paris Connection

Used by kind permission London Transport Museum The Royal Mail recently commem­orated one of the UK’s greatest works of visual infor­mation design when Harry Beck’s London Underground diagram was included for the first time on a British postage stamp writes Mark Ovenden. BizWeekGraphics: Bizweekgraphics 1929–1935: Depression. ... Create Grainy Textures - Vectips. Creating grainy textures are great for retro illustrations, typography, and logos.

Create Grainy Textures - Vectips

Alternatively, you can incorporate these effects into compelling new styles. You can always scan in similar textures and Live Trace them in Illustrator, but you can pretty easily create this type of effect all inside Illustrator! Final Image. Www.computerarts.com.pl/pdf/106.tut5.pdf. California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Evidence of a land promotion that collapsed.

California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport.

The City of Newport is shown prominently on the map attached to the deed, as large as San Francisco, and connected by three railroads to other cities. Avant-garde and modernist magazines. Inside back cover of Blok 6-7, Warsaw, 1924.

Avant-garde and modernist magazines

Back cover of MA 8:1, Vienna, 1922. Back cover of Noi II/1:6-9, Rome, 1924. Introduction[edit] What is the relevance of avant-garde magazines printed on aging paper to a society which views the world in real time and through networked digital lenses? There are two common answers. In their day avant-garde magazines had been the closest to medium-specific publishing. 8 Impressive Infographic Timelines. SVG Doughnut chart with animation and tooltip. 50 JavaScript Libraries for Charts and Graphs.

How are you visualizing data in JavaScript?

50 JavaScript Libraries for Charts and Graphs

What is your favorite library for creating charts and graphs with JavaScript? Arbor.js. [Tutorial] Prosta Animacja w Photoshop CC. Nicholas Felton. Klim Type Foundry - Home. UX Design Blog and Resources to Follow Religiously. In this article, Chris Bank of UXPin – The UX Design App details some of his favorite product design blogs on the web, categorized by the type of content they contain.

UX Design Blog and Resources to Follow Religiously

Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design. Search results from: keywordsLittle Big Details - Your daily dose of design inspiration. New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual. Datavisualization.ch. Baśń.pl - Pinokio. Newfangled works with independent agencies to lead development web platforms for their clients.

52 Weeks of UX. The user experience is made up of all the interactions a person has with your brand, company, or organization.

52 Weeks of UX

This may include interactions with your software, your web site, your call center, an advertisement, with a sticker on someone else’s computer, with a mobile application, with your Twitter account, with you over email, maybe even face-to-face. The sum total of these interactions over time is the user experience. The interaction designer plans for these moments. Lorem ipsum for webdesigners. Hex color #5166ff to Rgb, Pantone, RAL, HSL, HSB, JSON. Get color schemes. Biznesomania.pl : Wyceniamy Twój przyszły biznes ! Nowoczesna księgowość i wystawianie faktur. Koszty założenia działalności - Poradnik przedsiębiorcy - wFirma.pl. A Republican Victory by a Nose, Not a Wave. The Republicans get the six seats they need to retake the Senate in this week’s spin of Leo’s Senate election predicting wheels, which provide random simulations of what could occur in November.

A Republican Victory by a Nose, Not a Wave

But does it qualify as a “wave” election? Photo This outcome — winning the Senate — is clearly great for Republicans. They win in Colorado and Iowa, two Democratic-tilting states that Republicans could really use if they intend to compensate for possible Democratic gains in the increasingly diverse southeastern part of the country. Over the last two weeks, I’ve written two articles questioning whether we’re seeing the national political conditions that typically accompany so-called wave elections. How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail's Most Vexing Questions - Gretchen Gavett.

Sometimes it’s relatively easy to know what your customers are doing.

How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail's Most Vexing Questions - Gretchen Gavett

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Brick-and-mortar stores haven’t had the same advantage. How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts. Bl.ocks.org - mbostock. Recovering, but at Different Paces - Graphic. Streamlining font creation. Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design. Social Media Colours – Hex and RGB Colours of the Web. Home » Reference » Social Media Colours – Hex and RGB Colours of the Web These are the colours that define the social web in 2012 and 2013.

Social Media Colours – Hex and RGB Colours of the Web

To see more colours from the same website, click “more (name) colours”. If we have missed any social media colours, please let us know in the comments. SEE ALSO: Social Media Vector Logos and Social Media Fonts Have we missed a website you want included? Updates 17 January, 2013 Added colour for Quora Burgundy. 29 December, 2012 Fixed the colours for Twitter Blue, Google+ Red, Vimeo Green, Linkedin Blue, Instagram Blue, Flickr Pink, Tumblr and Foursquare.

Sources. The Subtle Magic Behind Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works. Dot paper template - Paperkit. Highly customizable With Paperkit you can easily generate online the exact type of dot paper that you need. Slanted - Typo Weblog und Magazin. New Grids — Strategy. Identity Designed - Part 3. Fonts and Designs. The Secret Law of Page Harmony. “A method to produce the perfect book.” 51ebfd. Little Big Details - Your daily dose of design inspiration. Really Good Emails - The Best Email Designs in the Universe (that came into my inbox) What Movie Should I Watch Tonight? Palette: Mixed. Palette: Rainbow.

Geometrical Psychology: Benjamin Betts’s 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations of Consciousness. Classes by seanwes. Butterick’s Practical Typography.