Tagged: design

Bostonia: Special Campaign Issue

It’s full throttle here: life-changing research, campus-changing construction, more stellar faculty joining our ranks—before we’ve even announced our first comprehensive Campaign for Boston University. In this issue, see what we’ve done, and what we’ll do next.

Parent Magazine

The Boston University Parents Program links parents and other family members of BU students with the University.

Mail Services

Boston University Mail Services handles and distributes the University’s incoming, outgoing, and interdepartmental mail on the Charles River and Medical campuses. Mail is picked up and delivered to all departments once a day. Mail Services is responsible for proper management of the University’s metered mail and postal permits and also administers express shipments through Federal [...]

Wall Art

Pretty Forms

If you haven’t seen the signup form on Jeremy Keith’s Huffduffer, go there now. I’ll wait. Pretty, isn’t it? Not only does it look good, but evidence suggests that it is more effective than traditional box-filled forms. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about other ways to present form fields. Not just text fields, but [...]

Infographic Coins

Petitinvention has some designs for infographic coins (found via beginbeing). I would be very happy if this were the currency of the future:

The Future of Designed Content

Robin over at Snarkmarket has put together a nice post advocating the use of designed content and runs through the mental exercise of imagining if an online magazine like Gawker implemented this approach. Needless to say, we like this idea.

Victorian Infographics

We’re always on the lookout for new ways to display information. Paul at BibliOdyssey has put together great examples of some old ways gathered from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Fantastic.

Annual Report 2009

International Year of Astronomy

Check out these posters that Simon Page made for the International Year of Astronomy. They’re retro and geometric, and so—almost by definition— I think they’re awesome. They’re also for sale. Creative Review had their favorites: And thumbnails of all 10: