How to look at a painting by Justin Paton has just been republished in hardback. Which is a supreme compliment to an author: graduating to hardback means The People (or Awa Press, the publisher) believe this book is a keeper....
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Fun with... visual linguistics
Mere words can't do justice to Neil Cohn's web site about the theory of visual linguistics. Does visual linguistics sound boring? Not when a graphic artist/academic applies everything he knows about visual language to his own web site. One glance...
Intranet innovations 2008
James Robertson knows intranets as nobody else does. He and StepTwo Designs are behind the brilliant annual awards for Intranet Innovation Awards. Note the difference: this is not about naming the best intranets in every sense, but about acknowledging innovative...
Spacing helps readers more than big fonts
New York researchers have found a key factor in whether we recognise objects. It's not their size but their distance from other objects. Because objects include letters, designers of font, books and documents will have a field day with this...
A snake in the plagiarist's Eden
No doubt about it, the Web is paradise for plagiarists. Term paper on Virginia Woolf? Speech about Nelson Mandela? Article on choosing a handbag? Search, click, cut and paste and you're done. Some sites even brazenly sell ghost-written papers and...