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Slogans Unlimited [www.adslogans.co.uk]
Free advice about creating effective names and taglines
Watch, listen, explore
America's Tragedy as seen by the World [http://thankyou.familytravelforum.com/]
Pictures say it all.
Book of TYPOBEAT [www.yugop.com]
Reactive typographics, dancing letters: marvelous.
Cantor Families [www.cantorfamilies.com]
Family and friends remember loved ones lost on Sept.
11.
Cartier [www.cartier.com]
Very elegant. I'd give up TV to watch this site.
(submitted by MaryAnn Aue)
Exhibit 13 www.exhibit13.com
Spare, elegant, overwhelmingly human; from Blue Man
Group.
Fray [www.fray.com]
Interactive storytelling: great reading, gorgeous site.
Internet Archive Wayback
Machine [web.archive.org/collections/web.html]
Favorite sites as they were: pick URL & year.
JournalE [www.journale.com]
Digital photojournalism: the best of old + new media
Kaliber10000 [www.k10k.net/]
World-beat web design: Quirky, impractical, imaginative,
fresh.
Milton Glaser [www.miltonglaserposters.com]
A visual and intellectual feast from a master of design.
(submitted by danielyoung@rcn.com)
Saul Bass on the Web [www.saulbass.net]
Online tribute to one of the world's greatest designers.
This American Life [www.thislife.org]
The lost art of storytelling, found.
(submitted by Wally Rehm)
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries [http://www.yhchang.com]
Flash-powered food for thought: minimalist monologues.
Good to know
MySimon [www.mysimon.com]
Comparison shop for nearly anything: fast, easy, comprehensive.
Pricegrabber [www.pricegrabber.com]
The bottom line cost, including shipping, on tons of
products.
The Hunger Site [www.thehungersite.com]
Give food to a hungry world with a mouseclick.
Urban Legends Reference
[www.snopes2.com/info/current.htm]
Don't forward that scarey email until you check
here.
Web design
& construction
A List Apart: For people who make websites
[www.alistapart.com]
Discusses the Web, from the Big Picture to the nitty-gritty.
Atomz.com [www.atomz.com]
A free search engine for your site - works great.
Boxes and Arrows [www.boxesandarrows.com/]
Thoughtful discussion about bringing order to the digital
landscape.
Cool Home Pages [www.coolhomepages.com]
Lots of examples, divided by category.
Hotwired RGB Gallery
[http://hotwired.lycos.com/rgb/gallery]
Tasty multimedia samples: HTML, Java, DHTML, Flash;
tutorials, too.
Jakob Nielsen's Use-It [www.useit.com]
Designers take heed! Learn how people REALLY use the
Web.
Web Design for Designers [www.wpdfd.com/index.htm]
Good advice, tips, lots on design, a little technique.
Webmonkey for Kids
[http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/lessons/index.html]
Grownups too! Learn about the Web & have fun.
Webpages That Suck [www.webpagesthatsuck.com]
Learn from other peoples' mistakes (before you make
them too!)
Zeldman's Daily Report [www.zeldman.com]
Web news, Web gossip, Astounding sites, free stuff
- daily!
Typography
Emigre TypeTease [www.emigre.com/Typetease/]
Test-drive fonts from a leader in modern typography.
EyeWire Type Viewer [www.eyewire.com/type/viewer/]
Your words, their fonts: try before you buy.
MyFonts [www.myfonts.com]
Search, browse, try, buy: the ultimate type/font
source.
Search engines
with funny names
Ask Jeeves [www.askjeeves.com]
Ask him anything-some answers are better than your question!
Dogpile [www.dogpile.com]
Fetches answers from many sources; fast, friendly, obedient.
Google [www.google.com]
Really simple, really fast, really useful search engine.
Software
tutorials
Adobe [www.adobe.com]
Great tips & techniques for using Photoshop &
other software.
Director Online
[www.director-online.com]
Director & Flash techniques, features,
demos, worldwide job listings, too!
DirectorWeb [www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/]
The Director Mothership: your questions answered, and
more.
Making Your Movie
www.apple.com/education/dv/tips/index.html
Simple, painless — and very useful — guide
to telling your story.
Mostly
fun
Baby Name-O-Meter
www.parenting.com/parenting/tools/babynamer
What's hot, what's not: most popular names since 1880.
Belief-O-Matic
[www.beliefnet.com]
Compare your beliefs to world religions: serious fun.
FlipFlopFlyin' [www.flipflopflyin.com]
Pixels in action: funny, charming, observant.
NewZoid [www.newzoid.com]
World's only automatic generator of unreal news headlines.
(submitted by danny@miltonglaser.com)
Ze's Page [www.zefrank.com]
Humor, insight, visual delights, dancing lessons from a Flash
wizard.
Sources
National Archives
[www.archives.gov]
Documents & images tell America's story, most copyright
free.
Octavo: Digital Rare Books
[www.octavo.com]
Strange bedfellows: the oldest books via the newest
technology.
Education & learning
AIGA Advance for Design [http://advance.aiga.org]
Moving graphic design into the world of experience design.
KSUCDA Summer Workshops [http://dept.kent.edu/art/KSUCDA/]
Topical, enjoyable, intense...one changed my life in
1994.
Sensebox [www.sensebox.com]
Links to design schools around the world.
Corporate
Amazon [www.amazon.com]
Books & more: e-commerce done the right way.
Apple Computer [www.apple.com]
Fast, good-looking, interesting: the site & the
computers.
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