10 Revealing Infographics about the Web. The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume and fascinating way. In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks! Click on the image to go to the larger version of each graphic. 1.
Web Trend Map is a graphical representation of the top domains and personalities on the web. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Related Content About the Author Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. Top 50 graphic design blogs :: David Airey :: Graphic and Logo D. Update: 02 November 2010 I published this collection back in 2007, albeit with a few minor updates here and there. Today I shared a new post showing the design blogs on my subscription list. That’s a more up-to-date selection. It’s not easy finding talented graphic designers, but it’s fair to say the best have a healthy online presence. So to make things easier, here are my top 50 graphic design blogs.
I’ve listed them by Google PageRank — Google’s way of determining a website’s authority, but don’t read into it too much, as many have an authority far beyond a single digit. Design Observer: writings about design & culture Smashing Magazine – a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers Core77 / design magazine + resource / Authentic Boredom – by graphic designer, Cameron Moll Coudal Partners: a forum for creativity and experimentation CR Blog – News and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review Dexigner – popular design portal featuring the latest design news. Get Mentally Fit with an Idea Quota. The first step to have great ideas is to adopt an attitude of having lots of ideas. Going further, there are some strategies we can use to dramatically increase the amount of ideas we generate.
The Idea Quota is one of the simplest and most effective of them. The Idea Quota I first learned about the Idea Quota through Michael Michalko’s excellent book Thinkertoys. The point of committing to a quota is that it forces you to actively pursue new ideas. Although you can use quotas without specifying a central theme for your ideas, the technique works best when you direct it to very specific needs, such as: a challenge you’re working on, either in your personal life or at work;an improvement you want to make in your life or business;finding answers to specific questions you have, either practical or more abstract.
Pump Some (Mental) Iron Just like in a physical workout, to grow your creativity muscles you have to constantly push your limits, even if just a little bit. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 9 artists who will blow your mind « deputydog. Richard Estes - dialogue between richard estes and gregory peter. Header Backgrounds - Another Step-by-step Tutorial by Veerle. Header Backgrounds Another Step-by-step Tutorial by Veerle > next © Copyright by Veerle Pieters of Duoh! N.v. all rights reserved. Free creative thinking tools on the Web - from InnovationTools. IDEABOOK.COM: How to design and market anything.
Genius By Design. Fast Company | French Hours. Seth's Blog: The Curse of Great Expectations. I can benchmark everything now. I can benchmark my morning workout. The rowing machine tells me if today’s workout was a personal best. Even better, I can go online and compare my workout to the efforts of thousands of other people. On my way to work, I can track my mileage. (My record is 89 mpg). Once there, I can watch the status of my books on Amazon, comparing their sales to every other book published in the English language… and then go check out JungleScan.com, where I can track the book’s performance over the last 90 days.
The problem with benchmarking is that nothing but continuous improvement (except maybe spectacular results) satisfies very much. Our interconnected, 500-channel world lets us be picky. In the old days, data was a lot harder to come by. Yes, benchmarking is terrific. But it stresses us out. Of course, the boomers have this problem even worse (and we’re all boomers, aren’t we? So, I’m officially letting go. Was this my best blog entry ever, or what?