articles week three

sawatdee ka - hello from thailand! I am out of the country for class this week, but here are links to the blogs I've found...

not entirely design, but in honor of thailand...

blog from new york times, By ROBERT TURNBULL
Thais want to set up a museum that loans artifacts to the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, which is lacking in historical pieces.“We want to educate Cambodian people about their own history,” said the museum’s managing director, Sunaree Wongpiyabovorn. There are those “who know little about its monuments, and even less of the progress of Buddhism and what led up to it,” she added.


web tips

blog from sethgodin.typepad.com, by SETH GODIN
This blog discusses simple changes to make websites more user friendly:
--put USA above Afghanistan on your country pull down list
--make it so clicking on your logo takes me back to your home page
He then suggests that corporate sites hire a pro to:(for a generous hourly fee),
--set up analytics for a website and do weekly reports (by email) that are actually useful and actionable.
He states that $200 an hour is reasonable.



grow green

blog from The designblog.org, by Idealist
This blog talks about a business card used by a gardening company that contains a seed in the card that the consumer can plant to grow their own plant. The basic idea behind this product is to be able to grow plants anywhere and everywhere thus helping even ordinary citizens make a difference to global environmental problems. I liked the idea of reusability in design.




parsons id annual design review

a look at parsons pick for contemporary designs from THE DESIGN SPONGE.
I plan on checking this out when I get back in the country


blog from colourlovers.com, by Evad
article talks abotu how colors in nature were not good enough, so scientists created more colors by mutating genes. hey can also be used as pollution indicators.