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Robin Good: "Would you like to join a select group of designers from around the world to curate what you would consider fonts from our Monotype collection for use in editorial publishing?" This is what James Fooks-Bale, from Monotype (the largest type foundry out there) initially wrote to Mario Garcia. The email went out also to several other designers around the world, who were all invited to participate in curating a set of type collections to inspire and help designers re-discover what fonts and typefaces to use for their next project. "The unique challenge of this project was developing type palettes. Each set of type families had to make sense for the hypothetical publications we proposed. But the families in each palette also had to complement each other: in finish, attitude, or historical reference. It was not about selecting interesting typefaces, but choosing those that could work as part of a system..." Monotype calls these curated sets of typographic faces "collections" and it describes their function and meaning as: "The Monotype Collections are a series of personal font selections curated from the Monotype library by leading figures in the print and digital design worlds. Each one takes a theme that corresponds to real-life briefs or trends, such as Heritage, Publishing, Branding or Web Fonts, and all fonts selected by our curators are available to license from Monotype. ... The sheer volume of font options now available to designers and creative directors can be daunting and time-consuming to explore, leading designers to settle for tried-and-trusted go-to fonts. The purpose of the collections is to widen their palette, and offer a range of entry points to the Monotype library, which contains thousands of fonts covering every application, and has its origins in the late 19th century. The Collections contrast contemporary alternatives and reveal hidden gems from the archives, and invite designers to delve deeper." This is a great example of how curation can be used to market, inspire and help great artists discover and re-discover tools they may have not been using for a while. Fascinating. Innovative. Inspiring. 9/10
Product as process, product as curaton, product as something much more ethereal, magical, gentle and kind feels like where we are thanks in no small measure to curation of the growing infinity of UGC (User Generated Content). This idea of "product" as bigger than past definitions, something Robin just helped me see with this Scoop, fits with Social Media's Magic Feedback Loops (http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/social-medias-magic-loops/ ), a post I just wrote for Atlantic BT's blog. Full story + samples from all curated sets: http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/the_page_is_the_stage_curating_a_monotype_type_collection Via Robin Good, John van den Brink
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Robin Good: A great example of visual curation at work. Trendland magazine features "Curating the Curated: Seafoam" a color-themed collage of inspiring and unique images based on Pantone 18-5315TPX - Bayberry. The curated collage is "refreshed" every Tuesday and Friday with a new color-theme. Original curated collage: http://trendland.com/curating-the-curated-seafoam/ Check out also Trendland visual boards on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/trendland/ Marty Visual Curation Note Via Robin Good
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![Gamification Goes Mainstream [infographic] | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/21g0ypPYcyLcE_qIllvNrDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Over the past year we have watched gamification grow in popularity. With each company that implements gamification, the term seems to gain ground in becoming recognized as a successful solution to engagement and loyalty problems online. Gamification was even short listed for word of the year in Oxford’s Dictionary 2011.
We decided to recognize the growing popularity and success of gamification and its implementations in this infographic below (because let’s face it, everything is better as an infographic).You can read more about it’s success on Forbes or ReadWrite Enterprise. A HUGE thanks to Matt Shobe and Chad Jacobson for their work on this!..
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The Semantic Web as made real with lightweight means such as LOD and Microforms means that an inclusive, broad knowledge of who we are may finally be at hand.
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Great presentation by Susan Weinshenk, "The Brain Lady", at the Converison Conferene in Chicao a month ago. My Notes are here: http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/conversion-conference-live-blog-monday-june-25-pm/ . Conversion is about connecting websites to WHY people act one way or another. Susan is pioneering new science of design, design influenced by neuromarketing and focused on connecting websites to people. She knows the keepers o the website design flame are grpahic designers so she creates great content to help designers understand their ultimate customers (those who actually use the sites they design) better. If ask me for an example of the best design for a website I would say the one that converted better. Everything else is conjecture, specutation, damn lies and statistics :).
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Timeline shows the increasing complexity of web standards This new HTML 5 infographic from Evolution of the Web reminds us about the power, but also the . Marketing topic(s):Website design. Advice by Dave Chaffey.
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Three retail industry experts share website optimization tips for boosting conversion rates. ... * Creative placement of the banner on top of the content. * Keeping the qualifying form simple. * Landing page for download with other options (would have included a Thank You, but excellent even without it).
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![Top 10 Summer Tech This Week [PICS] | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/R7mVLQjmmu58phbnU4gKljl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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Who says summer is a slow time for tech? The past week provided us with a cavalcade of products and accessories for us to drool over.
***** Drooling :). Marty
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![Future Of Design: Stupid and Ugly as F**K? [video] | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/1wpNBcct6IshPr6WbOzCDjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Noisey is an all-music channel curated by the sonically-inclined at Vice Magazine. ***** WARNING - There are several F bombs in this interesting video about a little covered retail trend - flash stores dedicated to trends that may have a shelf life of weeks. There is so much excess retail space creating a temporary brick and mortar presence to support a permanent web presence may be a trend we see soon.
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New approaches for designing in the responsive age. ***** Helpful slide deck. Love "future friendly" design as an impotant idea. "Future," to an Interent marketer is about the next 3 months, but never the less....
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I remember how popular web design was even 5 or 10 years ago.
***** I learned ten years ago and would have to learn all over again now because so much has changed. Great resources if, like me, you are taking this journey again. Marty
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Peter Yared, CTO of CBS Interactive, stirred up a bit of controversy recently when he wrote that adaptive design techniques make it difficult for publishers to monetize content. Via Ex FromTheLeft
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In today’s tutorial, we’re going to be looking at one of Google Analytics’ most recent additions to its feature set; Experiments. Using this tool, I’ll be showing you how to serve up different variations of a page to determine which one is the most successful in converting visitors to the site. Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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How your dealership can handle modern consumers who expect instantaneous response. (Is Your Dealership Ready for the Real-Time Shopper?: Latest Marketing News ... *** Curate your UGC (user generated content) so you aren't just talking to yourself about yourself all the time (an industry preoccupation). *** Ask for your customer's social contacts and then segment your customers based on power users, middle and beginning social media marketing status. Soon every customer will use social media, but not all social media user are equal. Car dealers should know who is across the desk from them. If you are selling a car to Seth Godin or Chris Brogan BE CAREFUL and don't be a jerk. Good advice even if Marty Smith or Jane Smith is across the desk. I can answer that too. What hit you was an empowered public who is tired and not going to take it anymore. Next time you sell me a car it would be a good idea to know if I can reach out and touch 5K or 10K people as you are speaking to me :).M
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![1 in 10 people will own a tablet by 2016 [study] | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/OwvC3bUN0dQcLbkTCohO4zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Market research firm Strategy Analytics has published a new report which reveals that as many as one in ten people could have a tablet by 2016, with o...
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In this article, we will look at some strategies you can follow, as well as some examples found in the wild, plus a few projects in which the consistent use of emotional design results in a great personality.
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We all dream in color. Every design concept and sketch comes with some sort of color association. But what do those colors mean? What associations are we making just with that choice alone?
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We redesigned mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers for speed and consistency... ...
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![The Psychology of Color [Infographic] | Louisville Painters | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/b5FBcat_IhN9mYF6j8MrdTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
An infographic that takes a creative and interesting look at how color is perceived and how it triggers certain thoughts and emotions. ***** Color as signal, color as nonverbal web communication can't be over estimated. I like white sites with color as accents. A little color can go a long way. This is a great chart to remind you what colors to use for what, when.
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Julian Opie's Online Art Store... ...
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13 tell tale signs that you may still be considered a (don't quote me) bad graphic designer.
***** Somewhat technical list I would add things like being a bad listener, but a good technical start. Marty
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The fundamental moment in which design becomes a political tool has arrived. Whatever we choose to call it — P2P culture, peer production movement, open-P2P-design — will we be able to find new...
***** Obviously I believe in revolutions :-). Marty Via Jason Brunson
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A lot of time will be spent designing the perfect experience for your user. Responsive design can often be a key part in that effort as now, multiple staging areas must be accounted for in your designs.
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The purpose of responsive design is to present the website and its content in the best possible way for the device the user is viewing it on – Desktop users get one view, mobile users get another view, etc.
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