A simple, intuitive touch-screen interface rewrites a laborious process. Could it represent the first flickers of a new way for designers to collaborate? Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke , two young German interaction designers, have just unveiled a new interface that solves a problem that most designers never give a second thought to: Sifting through thousands of fonts, hoping to find the right one.
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FontPlore: A New Way for Designers to Skim Through Reams of Fonts
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The feds launched the “cash for clunkers” program recently that pays you to scrap your old polluting car if you buy a fuel-efficient one. This is a great idea that can be applied elsewhere to clean the environment and stimulate economic growth. But just how far could this idea go?
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Cash for the Real Clunkers
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A week after Chrysler launched a push tied to Uncle Sam's explosively popular “Cash for Clunkers” program — which the House voted to keep alive with $2 billion in extra funds — the carmaker is planning to drop ads touting “Double Cash for Your Old Car.”
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Chrysler to Ditch ‘Double Cash’ for Clunkers Ads
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Leaked service manuals for Sony’s upcoming PRS-300 and PRS-600 e-reader devices have revealed the specs of the anticipated successors to the Sony PRS-700. Unfortunately, no pricing or release date information was included, but the manuals are dated July 2009, so the features revealed are fresh.
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Sony PRS-300, PRS-600 E-Reader Details Leak Via Service Manuals
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“Cocksure: The Psychology of Overconfidence” is the title of Malcolm Gladwell’s recent piece in the New Yorker, where he investigates the mental-space of decision-making. Gladwell analyzes financial collapse and war, arguing that beyond the conventional explanations of those predicaments (structural mishap and cognitive deficit), there is a psychological dimension at play
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Why Does the Best Design of 2009 Still Look Like 2000?
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Starchitect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled a new bridge for Ontario–and the project’s naysayers are screaming bloody murder. Once upon a time, Santiago Calatrava could do no wrong
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How Not to Market a Big Public Works Project
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It may take a village to raise a child, but it took the rallying cry of an entire town–and a no-cost, 1.8-million-square-foot building–to convince Carbon Motors to locate its manufacturing facility to Connersville, Indiana. Carbon Motors makes the E7 law enforcement vehicle , a futuristic cop-cruiser that includes radiation and biological threat detectors, an automatic license plate recognition system, and a diesel engine that gets up to 30 miles per gallon and has a top speed of 155 miles an hour. The company already has 10,000 orders
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The KITT of Connersville: How Carbon Motors Decided to Build Police Cars in Indiana
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The real-time push in online systems has attracted a new fan: Bit.ly. The URL shortening service has unveiled plans to turn its torrent of Twitter shortened URLs into a refined flow of news. Clever
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Bit.ly to Turn It’s Diced-Up URLs Into a Real Time News Feed
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A handy guide to the relative sizes of your favorite urban terrors, including the Marshmallow Man, Godzilla, King Kong, T-Rex, and…Chucky? Geekstir has done us all a big favor and created a scaled-graph of monster-movie baddies (full-size version here )
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Infographic of the Day: Which Movie Monster Is Biggest?
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Dave Burwick, a PepsiCo veteran who was CMO of North American Beverages at PepsiCo, is leaving the company, and Jill Beraud will take over as head marketer at the soft-drink giant. Ms
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Dave Burwick Out as Pepsi CMO
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