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The 50

From speaking to friends, colleagues and recalling my own experiences I've complied The 50, a list of 50 things I believe every graphic design student should know on leaving college. Some of these points are obvious, others less so - but all are brief, digestible nuggets of wisdom that will hopefully go some way to making the transition from graduate to designer a little bit smoother.

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The 50 has been crafted to be shared, spread and debated. Each point has been synthesised into just 140 characters (complete with a #the50 hash-tag) making them memorable and Twitter-friendly. Tweet your favourites, share them on Facebook, and send this URL to your friends - The 50 needs to be seen by as many students as possible - because feedback is crucial for the next step…

Teleconferencing is becoming extremely important to business in the 90's. Rising travel costs and a wide-spread emphasis on telecommuting will result in a dramatic increase in the number of teleconferences held each day.

Yet, unfortunately, the effectiveness of teleconferencing often fails to meet needs and expectation of telecommuters.

Meetings are an essential part of business and telecommuters still need to "meet". If they are meeting electronically, then we need to develop a methodology for facilitating distributed meetings. Running effective face-to-face meetings is difficult enough; managing effective telemeetings requires special training and tools.

TheVisual Telefacilitation Project at the Performing Graphics Company is researching ways in which visual representation can increase the effectiveness of teleconferencing. The technique currently being developed is the use of recorders for distributed meetings      visual telefaciltators      to provide a continuously updated record of the meeting discussion for all of the distributed participants.

Fred Lakein

In more complex terms, interaction design is a discipline that borrows from product, industrial, graphic, interface and web design, as well as cognitive psychology, human computer interaction, computer science, information communication technology (ICT)-and architecture. Interaction design is never the same thing in two different places. As many histories of interaction design exist as there are disciplines that borrow from them.

Great poster graphics from Get Satisfaction

I can think of two (2) representations of  "comprehensive management approaches" - two exceptional representations - that remind me of my favorite illuminated manuscripts. In this post I'll describe and discuss one of 'em, a poster-sized map published about a year-and-a-half ago. I hope to do the same with regard to an entire (2003) book in a future post.