position:creative director

We are not looking for a cartographer in the traditional sense.

http://blog.urbanmapping.com/2012/10/16/wanted-geographic-storyteller

offre d’emploi caractéristique de l’époque !

#cartographie #gis via @karlpro

Write ’Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books Through This Clever HTML5 App | Co.Design : business + innovation + design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670294/write-choose-your-own-adventure-books-through-this-clever-html5-app

Now, inkle is making their internal compositional software available to the public free as an HTML5 web app called inklewriter. So, without any coding expertise at all, and without much preplanned plot, either, you can simply start typing an interactive novel.

#nouvelles_narrations

« Mad Men », « phallocrate » ?!
http://twitter.com/Jean_no/status/172288456557477888

Alors là, je ne peux pas laisser dire un truc pareil :

Why ’Mad Men’ is TV’s most feminist show, by Stephanie Coontz
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100802662.html

http://www.stephaniecoontz.com/images/stephanie_color.jpg

Historians are notorious for savaging historical fiction. We’re quick to complain that writers project modern values onto their characters, get the surroundings wrong, cover up the seamy side of an era or exaggerate its evils — and usually, we’re right. But AMC’s hit show “Mad Men,” which ends its fourth season next Sunday, is a stunning exception. Every historian I know loves the show; it is, quite simply, one of the most historically accurate television series ever produced. And despite the rampant chauvinism of virtually all its male characters (and some of its female ones), it is also one of the most sympathetic to women.

Stephanie Coontz est l’auteure d’une étude sur « The Feminine Mystique » de Betty Friedan, livre emblématique des années décrites dans « Mad Men ». J’en ai parlé ici :
►http://www.peripheries.net/article329.html

"The Feminine Mystique" décrit un cas d’école : le conditionnement forcené, proche de l’abrutissement, subi par les femmes américaines durant les quinze années de l’après-guerre pour les persuader que le mariage, les enfants et l’univers domestique devaient suffire à leur bonheur. Les traumatismes de la Grande dépression, puis de la seconde guerre mondiale et de la guerre froide, conjugués à l’essor des banlieues résidentielles et de l’idéal du bonheur par la consommation, poussaient alors à un repli sur le foyer. Tout désir de faire usage de l’instruction que beaucoup avaient reçue, de travailler à l’extérieur, d’être partie prenante de la société, était condamné comme « non féminin » et ne pouvant produire que des « mégères asexuées ».

D’ailleurs, l’équipe de « phallocrates » derrière la série est largement féminine :

The Women Behind ‘Mad Men’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574332284143366134.html

A writing team dominated by women shapes the chauvinistic world of the TV hit; reading a mother’s 1960s love letters

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WK-AQ741_madmen_G_20090804172447.jpg

Matthew Weiner, le créateur de la série, a même engagé comme scénariste la baby-sitter de ses enfants, parce qu’il trouvait qu’elle avait de bonnes idées :

Kater Gordon, 27, for example, had worked for executive producer Scott Hornbacher and was baby sitting Mr. Weiner’s four sons. After the kids went to bed, she watched Emmy screeners and impressed Mr. Weiner with her opinions. Ms. Gordon started as Mr. Weiner’s assistant on season one and was soon promoted to writer’s assistant and then to staff writer on season three.

#MadMen

Fonts In Use – BostonGlobe.com
http://fontsinuse.com/bostonglobe-com

At the heart of the Globe’s typographic personality is Miller Headline. The typeface is a slightly condensed addition to the popular Miller family by (Boston area resident) Matthew Carter. It was created specifically for newspapers like the Globe and served as the main headline face for the paper since 2001. BostonGlobe.com uses screen versions of the fonts via Webtype.

#typographie

Thoughts On Communicating Design
►http://www.dkeithrobinson.com/features/entry/thoughts_on_communicating_design

A really useful and clever analysis. A must read for anyone working in the field...

#design #work #process #webdesign

Consensus is For Losers — D. Keith Robinson
http://www.dkeithrobinson.com/features/entry/consensus_is_for_losers

#Design by committee sucks.

It always has, it always will. So why does it keep happening? A lack of trust? A lack of knowledge about what good, strong design is? It can be various things. Sometimes it’s really hard to pin down, thus making it a hard problem to get around. Still, I’m a firm believer that it’s a true statement.

J’aime bien l’idée de «lack of trust».

Une conférence avec le créateur du fameux Comic sans. Organisons un attentat. // Ampersand · The Web #Typography Conference
http://ampersandconf.com

Ampersand is an affordable one-day event for knowledgable web designers & type enthusiasts, featuring:
Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans; David Berlow, type designer & cofounder of The Font Bureau; Tim Brown, type manager for Typekit & maker of Nice Web Type; John Daggett, Firefox developer & editor of the CSS3 Fonts Module; Mark Porter, former creative director of guardian.co.uk; Jon Tan, web designer at Analog & cofounder of Fontdeck; plus special guest.

#typographie

An #HTML5 #Logo - #W3C Blog
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/01/an_html5_logo