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After 6 successful years of research, the PLAY studio of the Interactive Institute is pleased to announce a launch into the new year with a new name! From January 1, 2005 the studio will be called RE:FORM.

The new name symbolizes the renewed vision in the studio, which has evolved and progressed over the years within the rapidly growing field of interaction design. RE:FORM is a name which reflects our deepening of focus in the area of design practice and research, and our mission to re-think notions of form and experience as emerging technologies expand into people’s everyday life and lifestyles.

The RE:FORM studio will have a strong design focus and presence in Göteborg, nationally and internationally, as part of the Interactive Institute’s commitment to developing IT through art and design perspectives. At the same time, the Institute’s game research will be integrated more strongly in the GAME studio, which will be represented both in Visby and Göteborg.

PLAY - info page

The Search Visibiltiy Report provides a digest view of the latest news and commentary from the search engine community.

Search Visibility Report: Search Engine News and Commentary

Se how a typical Search Engine sees your Web pages. You will be astounded of what you will discover. A solid block of text and a list of links. What’s more important? What’s driving your Web site to the top of Search Engine result pages?

Have a look at: Search Engine Spider Simulator

Screenfont.ca is part of an upcoming project to research and develop a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.

Screenfonts are important because, in captioning and subtitling, our instrument is typography.

We’re creating visible words that we expect people to read and understand almost instantaneously before the words disappear. Font quality becomes – and already is – an issue. It may surprise you to learn that there are no screenfonts in existence that:

* provide a wide enough range of styles and variations to be useful in real-world captioning and subtitling applications (believe it or not, a single sansserif will not work for everything)
* are specifically designed to be read from screens within the constraints of captions and subtitles (like scrolling, crawling, appearing and disappearing, all while typeset against unpredictable backgrounds)
* are customized, where necessary, for specific technologies (e.g., analogue television, HDTV, computers, offscreen displays)
* and, most importantly, have been tested with nondisabled, deaf/hard-of-hearing, and visually-impaired subjects

Screenfont.ca: All about fonts for captioning and subtitling

Help people discover more of your web pages.

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

* Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
* Fresher search results
* A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Google Sitemaps

If you’re not a designer, and you’re creating a logo - the best approach is to keep it super simple.

I would add: keep it super simple, always.

Some advice on logo design for non-designers (FrogBlog)

Stylish, smooth, slick, elegant, pastel colors, elegant typography, heavy graphics, Macromedia Flash
Passing Notes

f you are a web designer or front-end developer, you are probably familiar with how different browsers or user agents displays your code in their own way. Picture this: You are pushing pixels and refining your designs so it fits perfect in your Firefox browser, but when presenting your design to the client in Internet Explorer, your pages might brake completely. Bye bye contract. Designing with CSS is no exception. On the contrary – table based layout seems to be more cross-browser consistent than CSS positioning. This probably one of the reasons why several big names still uses tables in their web design layouts.

No More CSS Hacks | Articles | Stylegala

1500 free fonts to be downloaded.

EKNP Free Fonts

Have you ever wanted to make a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow? Did you also want to do that without cluttering your markup with a bunch of non-semantic div elements? Now you can.

Transparent custom corners and borders | 456 Berea Street