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Questionable Characters

Courtesy of Ben Barry, a graphic designer and illustrator at Facebook (with some very interesting side projects) and Frank Chimero, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer (who also teaches at Missouri State University), Questionable Characters is a wonderfully designed site, showcasing the power of a good idea coupled with some solid XHTML and CSS (and just a dash of JavaScript).

Offering ongoing advice to an idiosyncratic range of queries, Ben and Frank, are guaranteed to have the answer to any question you’d care to throw at them. Indeed, it’s the sole reason they get out of bed every morning.

Recent questions include:

• Do you keep a sketchbook?
• Which one of you is the brains behind your operation?
• How do I give design feedback without offending?

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The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

• AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…
• In 2009, Andy Baio - a writer and entrepreneur who helped build Kickstarter - ate his own dog food and launched a Kickstarter project called 'Kind of Bloop'. The idea was elegant, and one we immediately fell in love with…
• As the old saying goes, "You only get one chance to make a first impression." Launched amid much fanfare late last week, Color is, apparently, "a miraculous application," and one of the first of many, new life-changing applications for the 'Post-PC World' in which we now live. It's also guilty of a not insubstantial degree of hyperbole…

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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