An email signature is a bit of content at the end of your email that identifies you and has some other helpful information in it. This text, like all text, should abide by standards. Don’t put the content in an image. This makes the text inaccessible. Even with alt text, people can’t copy and paste…
A study done by researchers at MIT raises red flags about the cognitive cost of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for educational pursuits.
How to help your team get more return on your precious content.
The uptake of your ideas depends on good typography. Underlines are not a best practice.
Following up on new media projects from 2020.
We’re still skeptical about QR code use. When we’re asked to put them on designs, we follow a few guidelines
Writing is a joy. But it’s also the other stuff. Don’t make writing more painful than it needs to be; don’t get stuck on headlines or subtitles. Titles are friction. In WordPress, like most CMSs, the headline entry looms at the top of the page. Never forget you have several options: Ignore the title field…
There are many decisions to be made when building an archive. These decisions have often been made by individuals in positions of privilege or by institutions themselves. This means that archives have often been used to perpetuate misinformation or selective information in the name of crafting historical narratives that maintain current power structures. This potential…
Perhaps the most significant piece of misinformation generated by archives is the impression of their own authority.
At the University of California, LA, Johanna Drucker works as a professor of Bibliographical Studies. She is also the author of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production.
Humans are meaning-making machines with an impulse to organize. Today we code paragraph breaks into our web pages. In the medieval period they rubricated signified paragraph breaks with colour-shifts.
In June I had the opportunity to attend “Lesbian Liberation Across Media.” It was a film screening put on collaboratively by queer archives and media projects in Canada, and hosted by some of my personal academic heroes. One central theme from this screening was control over media. But equally important were the themes of learning…
These seven media projects are embracing this new reality and bucking the status quo. They give me hope that there is a future for writers and journalists in Canada, one that doesn’t look the same as it did fifty years ago, but which could thrive just as much, and be a lot more inclusive.
Content is supreme, be it text or image. An image can be riveting, but a contextualized image can capture more than passing interest. It can entice someone into seeking a deeper understanding of your work. And you are the expert on your content.
Web first publishing means publishing your carefully crafted content to your website first. We recommend it nine times out of ten…
Lately I’ve found myself advocating for blogging and microblogging. Microblogging is a loose term. Sometimes it means posts that don’t have titles and other features of full-fledged articles…
Social change is one of the reasons that I care about advertising and communications design. Here’s a great example…
It is winter solstice again. We are very close to the sun now; roughly ninety one million miles. But due to the tilt of the earth, and our latitude here in Victoria, and our position in our…
Generating ideas is a deeply important talent. Problems can be solved. Solutions get chosen from pools of ideas…
This talk by Morgan Spurlock interests me because he explores branding and asks us to reflect on commercialization…
It is widely recognized that our holidays are increasingly enmeshed with commercial interests…
Lynn Strongin and Penelope Weiss have finished their recent book, Portraits in Glass and Light…
Flash can be pretty and neat and can even help present important information. But it can be a liability too…
University 101 is a program that provides free non-credit university courses to people that face barriers to accessing post-secondary education. It’s a cool program that does an awesome …
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