What Women (and Men) Want: Magazine Ad Copy by Sex

A few weeks ago, I came up with the idea for a project where I would go through a token men's magazine (like Esquire) and women's magazine (like Cosmopolitan), transcribe all the copy in their ads, and then use a PHP script to dive into that copy and cull out the most recurring words.  see the article

Copy Points

I recently saw a post on reddit where the person who submitted the article had put a great deal of time and effort (very clearly, by the quality of the end product) into designing his graphic.  see the article

7 New Design Touches in Snow Leopard

There's a lot of literature out there about the new features in Snow Leopard, but this article isn't covering those. It's about some of the smaller touch-ups to the UI design that they made to the interface, and initial impressions of the progression of the design. I'd say these small touches are relevant because many user interface design changes we've seen over the course of the last decade or so have been born out of updates to the OS X user interface.  see the article

Design Stories Behind 4 Famous U.S. Historical Landmarks

National monuments are strange creations. Their designs are intended to be symbolic, metaphorical and try to tell a story. The designs can often also get deeply political. These are some of the stories behind the typically grueling process of creating a monument that is meant to represent a historical figure or event, but just as much is a design of its day.  see the article

From Good Concept to Bad Outcome

I came across this ad today when I was looking through the Sunday paper. It bothered me because it was a good concept drowned through seemingly bad vision or leadership.  see the article

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