Monthly Archives: June 2015

Copyright is about leverage–and control

Anyone with an Internet connection can access a broad universe of music, movies, and e-books. As I recently explained to my teenage boys, when I was your age, my entertainment consisted of radio, vinyl records and Saturday morning cartoons. Nowadays, … Continue reading

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Effective Forms Demonstrate Visual Rhetoric

There’s a place where rhetorical principles, information design techniques, visual design applications, and copywriting all meet. No, they don’t meet at a bar, and this isn’t the start of a bad ID joke. The form. Few digital artifacts require so … Continue reading

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Making digital information more accessible

Think for a moment about your typical day online. You might review your checking account balance and then pay some bills. You might remember to send a gift directly to one person, and save a couple of items on your … Continue reading

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