‘’Eulda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best projects in Europe in the field of logo design. All the winning logos are published in a volume of exceptional quality printed by multiple award-winning printer Fontegrafica.'’

Eligibility
‘’For Eulda ‘07, any logo printed, published or visible online between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006 is eligible. Eulda is open to European designers, studios, agencies and their clients living or working within Europe. All entrants may submit as many works as they wish. Any country within the geographical definition of Europe (including the UK, all Scandinavian countries, all EU countries, etc) is considered European for the purposes of Eulda.'’

[more on eulda.com]

From Social Glass by Jeremy Thomas: ‘’I was thinking about some of the core traits of Enterprise 2.0 the other day and was starting to see parallels to historical movements that have shaken entrenched social orders. Enterprise 2.0 represents a dramtic cultural change to traditional businesses. It flattens hierarchies, removes barriers between divisions and encourages knowledge workers to innovate. Innovation happens when knowledge workers feel free to question long-established procedural norms and ask “why?”.'’ [more on Social Glass]

How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users’ goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make it actionable, ensuring we’re making the right decisions based on the right information. This practical guide explains how to create and use personas to make your site more successful.

The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas takes you through each step of persona creation, including tips for conducting qualitative user research, new ways to apply quantitative research (such as surveys) to persona creation, various methods for generating persona segmentation, and proven techniques for making personas realistic. You’ll also learn how to use personas effectively, from directing overall business strategy and prioritizing features and content to making detailed decisions about information architecture, content, and design.

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‘’Once Upon a Time'’ è il brano che anticipa Pocket Symphony, il nuovo album degli AIR, la cui uscita ufficiale è prevista per il prossimo 5 marzo. Diffusa in queste ore in video su YouTube, Once Upon a Time è la seconda delle dodici nuove tracce create dal duo di Versailles. E promette bene…

‘’@media has a reputation for being one of the world’s foremost events for web professionals. Doubling in size last year, 800 people from over 30 countries gathered in London to see some of the world’s most highly respected web experts speak about the latest issues in best practice web design.'’

‘’Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blogs offer all these elements in different measures and combinations, but they do have one thing in common: whether design is your bread and butter or for your eyes only, they are must-reads.'’ [Crestock.com Blog]

On Wednesday 28th Feb at 7pm, the third London based meeting for the Web Standards Group will take place at the Westminster University campus near Goodge Street station.

‘’Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim predicts the end of the Webpage and the rise of the widget economy. Goodbye banner ads'’ (Netvibes is a start up company created in 2005 based in Paris and specialized in Web 2.0 applications. )

Music wants to be free - The Economist on Steve Jobs’ DRM shot across the bow. Smartly points out that a) this is a bold move for the industry leader to effectively kill a competitive advantage and b) the iPod/iTunes combo is still the best in the biz, with our without DRM [via jimray]

‘’In mid-Victorian England the custom of sending daintily printed valentines, overflowing with hearts, cupids and poetical posies was generally understood to consist of an exchange of missives between special loving friends.

Yet beneath the sweet exterior and tender words of these lace-paper beauties lurked something far more sinister - the comic valentine !

These scurrilous printed sheets, entered into the humour of the common and middles classes, fun and mischief were their elements.

In reality they were masterpieces of the grotesque, venomous in humour, spiteful and rude, expressing anything but love.'’ [The Comic Valentine of mid-Victorian England]

‘’When I loose productive time at work it is usually because of a problem I have encountered with my computer. And any time I have a computer problem it is usually related to one of the following items. In order to be a little proactive I have build this little checklist. I have automated as many of them as I can and if much of your livelihood depends on your technology functioning smoothly I suggest you consider doing the same'’. [lifehack.org]