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Library Public Notice: 8: Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and Illustration / 1998 / SML

Library Public Notice: 8: : Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and illustration / 1998 / SML, originally uploaded by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML.

Yale Art 366a / 1998
Visual Studies / Paul Elliman
Notice above copy machine to get people to handle books with care when photocopying.

+ It's fairly amazing what can happen when you combine the language of the real (photographic) and illustration / iconic.
+ It's also interesting to me now looking back that I appear to be fascinated with patterns and magenta since at least 10 years ago!


Process (8 pages)
+ 1: Design Iteration: Patterns / Odd-man out
+ 2: Design Iteration: Patterns / Odd-man out (Detail)
+ 3: Sketches
+ 4: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 1
+ 5: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 2
+ 6: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 3
+ 7: Design Iteration 3: Missing pages using a real book
+ 8: Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and illustration

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Copyright 1998, 2007 See-ming Lee. All rights reserved.

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©2007 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Ideas Blog / SML Universe. All rights reserved.

Library Public Notice: 8: Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and Illustration / 1998 / SML

Library Public Notice: 8: : Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and illustration / 1998 / SML, originally uploaded by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML.

Yale Art 366a / 1998
Visual Studies / Paul Elliman
Notice above copy machine to get people to handle books with care when photocopying.

+ It's fairly amazing what can happen when you combine the language of the real (photographic) and illustration / iconic.
+ It's also interesting to me now looking back that I appear to be fascinated with patterns and magenta since at least 10 years ago!


Process (8 pages)
+ 1: Design Iteration: Patterns / Odd-man out
+ 2: Design Iteration: Patterns / Odd-man out (Detail)
+ 3: Sketches
+ 4: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 1
+ 5: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 2
+ 6: Design Iteration 2: Missing pages as illustrated: 3
+ 7: Design Iteration 3: Missing pages using a real book
+ 8: Design Iteration 4: Combining photography and illustration

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Copyright Notice
Copyright 1998, 2007 See-ming Lee. All rights reserved.

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Tag Mirror = Your Books in the Eyes of others

I have been using LibraryThing for a while now and I am quite happy with it.

Source: LibraryThing

Originally it was mostly a data-entry chore, but I bought one of their $15(USD) CueCat bar-code scanner and started scanning in my books (work in progress). The downside of having all these books on the site, I noted, is that while there is no longer a nightmare for data-entry, tagging become a bit of an issue, as I still have to type them in one by one (another work in progress).

Today, I discovered a very innovative feature called tag mirror which I have never noticed before. As according to the site, it "is a new twist to tagging. Rather than showing a member's tags, this shows what other members think of a member's books."

Here's a screenshot of it:

Source: Screen capture of See-ming Lee's tag mirror on LibraryThing / 2007-08-26T09:04-05:00

Until I have time to properly tag all my books, it definitely helps me analyze what my true interests are better than my own tags :)

See my profile + my library + my tag cloud + my tag mirror + my author cloud on LibraryThing.

Also see LibraryThing's blog post about their innovation.

GUIdebook = Graphical User Interface Repository

GUIdebook is "a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.”

1. Screenshots. This site has an amazing repository of screenshots of all the main applications from pretty much all the OS that's ever been introduced, all saved in 24-bit PNGs (aka lossless) quality.

2. Interface Elements. Additionally, you can compare icons of application components, drives and devices, documents and folders, as well as mouse pointers across different OS environments.

3. Sound. Fairly interesting, and is often missing in other GUI repositories is the collection of sounds in WAV (lossless) format, which is a very effective means of user feedback in interface designs.

4. Applications. The site also include application splash screens, and an applications section that detail every aspect of iTunes and Photoshop during their entire history.

5. Additional resources. It even has repositories for ads, videos, articles, books and tutorials of everything known to human history about GUIs.

More information about specific GUI families can be found on the site's site map.