Beautiful Infographics

Superfad’s wonderful Sprint infographic style ads do a beautiful job of selling the utility of the Sprint-Nextel product.

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See Anything Odd About This Map?

Education Week Magazine has published it’s latest national report card on public education. See anything funky with how the “Above Average” schools line up? Oh, by the way, the magazine is published in Maryland.

A ton of weight is put on the ‘Standards, Assessments and Accountability’ portion of the report, which is a big concern to me. I constantly heard, while living in Florida, how schools were teaching to the FCAT (assessment tests) and how it was impacting homework, motivation, teacher competition, compensation, the entire gamut of education. Seems like a dangerous path to travel down, apparently the East Coast and Southern US have have a map to get them there.

Burning Icon Chatter

Heavy-hitters in the icon design world discuss all things pixel and space via 37signals Fireside Chat series.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3 (coming soon)

The Use of Photoshop

“The use of Photoshop - Reuters Blogs” outlines what is and is not acceptable Photoshop behavior for Reuters’ photographers. The post is quite detailed describing what tools, settings and filters can be used and in what situations. If you’re a Pshop or photo geek it’s pretty interesting reading, if you aren’t then you’d likey be better served reading today’s Dilbert.

When Design Kills

…or at least fails to save lives…
Andrew Crow of adaptive path asks the IAEA to flee from its deadly design.