For more reading visit my other community site, designShares.com
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Did you Know video: This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence…
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articles on web design
Alcantara, Leah, Redesigning your own site
Bernstein, Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web
Boulton, Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas
Cornell, Staying Motivated
Greenfield, The bathing ape has no clothes.
Gube, 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolio Designs
Hamid, Design is in the Details
Hodge, Creating a Successful Online Portfolio
Jones, Better Writing Through Design
Powazek, Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!
____, Home Page Goals
Smashing Magazine, 10 Principles of Effective Web Design
____, Creating a Successful Online Portfolio
____, 35 designers x 5 questions
____, Creative User Interfaces
Turner, Information vs. Experience.
Zeal, Design by Metaphor
Zellner, Understanding Web Design
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articles on theory related to internet communication

ideas
Lessig, The Future of Ideas (free download for non-commercial use)
_____, Free Culture
_____, CodeV2 From the Preface: “This is a translation of an old book—indeed, in Internet time, it is a translation of an ancient text.” That text is Lessig’s “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.” The second version of that book is “Code v2.” The aim of Code v2 is to update the earlier work, making its argument more relevant to the current internet.
Listen to Lawrence Lessig on FreshAir with Terry Gross ‘Lawrence Lessig’s “Remix of the Hybrid Economy“‘
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Ira Glass on Storytelling
Scanlan, What is Narrative, Anyway?
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web examples
vuvox mashup gallery by dane howard
Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices
vuvox: One week in Iraq
5 Cool and unexpected uses of Google Street View
Flip Video Spotlight
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web: technical issues
Google: listing your website and search terms (SEO)
Google’s webmaster essentials
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portfolio development + professional practice
AIGA, How Is AIGA Helping Designers Survive the Recession?
____, Defining the Designer of 2015
____, What designers need to know
____, AIGA Style vs Design
____, Design Jobs
____, Design Salaries
____, Transitions newsletter. This archive ends in 2004 but may still be of interest.
____, Membership. Student rate is $75, with discount following graduation.
Steff Geissbuhler, Presenting your portfolio
____, Insights on writing your résumé
Coroflot: Landing Your First Design Job
____, Design Portfolio Tips
____, How to succeed as a freelance designer
Ellen Lupton, What is success?
Adobe: Presenting your portfolio with panache
____, Launching your career. A selection of articles.
____, How to follow up after submitting a resume
____, Designer portfolios
BrandPeel: Juiciest self promotion projects
Gube, 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolio Designs
Hamid, Design is in the Details
Smashing Magazine, 10 Principles of Effective Web Design
____, Creating a Successful Online Portfolio
Zeal, Design by Metaphor
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dj spooky
sound unbound
website
Authors @ Google: Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky (video)
iPhone App Demo
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annual reports
— SEC Filings and Forms. Here you’ll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.
— The SEC’s requirements for online annual reports and proxy statements
— SEC Filing (Wikipedia)
— Corporate Filings and Annual Reports from Columbia University (These resources were selected for their authority, ease of use, and accessibility)
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annual report examples (design firms)
— Curran & Connors
— Benoit Design
— Inspiration: Top 25 Annual Report Designs
— Annual Report Design Samples For Inspiration
— Steltzner Consulting
— Brand Logic
— Nicholas Feltron: a different annual
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data visualization
The Amazing Visual Language of Processing
Many Eyes: a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.
Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen