Peter Ciccariello is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and photographer, whose current interests are in experimenting with the fusion of text and images in 3-D computer graphics environments, and exploring the possibilities of poetry as landscape.
A multilanguage blog with links and information on poetic invention – our term for exploratory/ investigative/ experimental/ radical/ conceptual poetry. [Graphic poetry, or poetic graphics...]
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A very simple, but not overly simplified, icon creator. Designing with this tool produces some striking designs, and allows you to brush, draw, or drop the color on in strokes, rather than pixel by pixel.
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Every object and surface in our environment has a whisper; subtle tremors and vibrations that are usually undetectable to the human ear, produced by the activity and movement of daily life. What if these sounds were audible? OTTO (Greek for 'ear') picks
Droog is not a style. It is a brand and a mentality, a curatorial collection of exclusive products, a congenial pool of designers, a distributed statement about design as cultural commentary, a medium, working with cutting edge designers and enlightened c
One of the hardest part of a designers job is presenting their work, selling their designs to clients or stakeholders and gathering feedback. The design review cycle. I know it used to be something I dreaded.
This is the first of a two-part article that will provide an introduction to relational databases and the SQL language. This first part describes some of the key elements of the technology with an emphasis on database normalization. The second part will d
Microformats are small and gentle syntactic touchups for your web pages.They have one major purpose: to make your data readable by both man and machine...The machine-readable-data (and thus the microformat) concept is not new; it has a very recent fo
"Not many sites can take you from the Design Council to Design Addict, from the Rural Studio to Worldstudio, and have it all make sense. Nate Burgos’s ever-evolving webliography is a smart portal to the ever-expanding universe of design"
microformats are, just as importantly, defined by what they are not: not a new language; not infinitely extensible and open-ended; not an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools; not a whole new approach that throw
They call themselves 'The Ultimate HTML Resource' and as a stark raving beginner, I would agree; there are great tutorials, reference sheets, and other helpful guides to building & designing a website, coding HTML & XHTML, creating CSS stylesheets, and ot