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Desktop Wallpaper: November 2024 With Microsoft

Design Milk

You might be giving away your age if you can recall the Bliss wallpaper that Microsoft designed in the fall of 2001 from memory. This month’s desktop design is ready to calm your screen and your spirit. Those vibrant, rolling green hills, paired with the charming antics of Clippy, shaped a whole era of tech.

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Sound and vision: the 3D animation of Reggie Perry, Jr

Creative Boom

looked at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2001, the fees were too high for him to attend Georgia's famous art school. Even his showreel is original – using a variety of creative skills, he presents his portfolio like a voice-activated virtual reality journey through his finest projects. When Reggie Perry, Jr.

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Why a new book celebrating design legend Margaret Calvert deserves your support

Creative Boom

It's worth noting, too, that the book will take us up to the present era. Since retiring from teaching in 2001, Margaret has taken on many solo projects," explains Adrian. "I'm especially keen on the many drawings and sketches she did for her most famous works. I love her sketches for her typefaces. It's thrilling to see them."

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Susan Kare’s pioneering Macintosh icons are on display in France

Creative Review

“I believe that good icons are more akin to road signs rather than illustrations, and ideally should present an idea in a clear, concise, and memorable way,” said designer Susan Kare in a 2001 interview with Wendy Marinaccio for online project Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine Graphics

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-20T09:19:47+00:00. Online, and live.

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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

Instead, his work forges bridges between the classical and the present in a way that makes it excitingly relevant to the world of the 21st century.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

The concept of a pattern library in interaction design/human-computer interaction began to gain recognition in 1997, when Jennifer Tidwell presented her scientific article on the topic at the annual conference on human factors in computing systems (ACM/SIGCHI). Guidelines are primarily presented without explanations or logic.

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