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is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

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Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006

Wed 6 Dec 200610:06 AM

Opens Fri 08 Dec and runs through 29 Jul 2007.

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WSJ: Welcome to the Airport. You Seen These Guys?

Tue 5 Dec 200611:49 AM

“The Bush administration plans to brighten up the holidays by distributing hundreds of colorful ‘wanted terrorist posters’ to U.S. airports across the country.”

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Jeremy Keith: More Thoughts on Portable Social Networks

Tue 5 Dec 200611:37 AM

Some hard core thinking on moving past centralized hubs for your buddy lists.

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Japanese Version of Nintendo Wii Manual Emphasizes Safety

Mon 4 Dec 200608:13 PM

Hilariously explicit instructions on what not to do.

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Safari Market Share Rises to 4.03 Percent

Sun 3 Dec 200601:40 PM

“ The rise from 2.78 to 4.03 represents a year-over-year growth of 45 percent.”

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NYT: New on the Web, Politics as usual

Sun 3 Dec 200601:10 PM

“ You might think that with the kind of rhetoric bloggers regularly muster against politicians, they would never work for them. But you would be wrong.” Includes a beautiful infographic from Mike Essl.

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The Guardian: Today’s Forty Best Film Directors

Sat 2 Dec 200612:50 PM

Nice list, except what are Larry and Andy Wachowski doing on it? (P.S., Kate Lane points out this list is rather dated.)

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Nathan Fox Illustration

Sat 2 Dec 200611:19 AM
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This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI

Thu 30 Nov 200609:22 AM

“Deep down inside every software developer, there’s a budding graphic designer waiting to get out.”

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Nik Silver on The Guardian’s New Travel Site

Wed 29 Nov 200611:26 AM

Nice write-up on the just-launched redesign by the site’s software development manager.

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