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A poster I designed to promote double-sided printing at Yale, May 2009
Anyone is welcome to download and use the poster. Please don't contact me for permission to use it; the poster is under "CC-BY NC" license and you can use it any way you like as long as you don't sell it. The files are available here, in a .zip package with Illustrator, outlined, EPS, and editable PDF formats enclosed. The arts-and-crafts fonts used are Gill Sans (Adobe), and Semiramis (a free download).
A personal celebration of spring, April 2009
A classic Parisian fruit tarte, courtesy of Dorie Greenspan's recipe in her superb Baking: From My Home to Yours.
January, 2009 - Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition is now available:
Sarah Horton and I have completely re-written and re-illustrated the Web Style Guide in a new 3rd edition, just released from Yale University Press. The new edition has 185 full-color illustrations, and new sections on universal accessibility, search engine optimization, and designing with web standards.
In the next few months we'll be updating the webstyleguide.com site with the full text and illustrations of the 3rd edition.
lionfish illustration, photoshop, nov 2008
Lionfish are an Indo-Pacific tropical fish family, but in recent years the Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) has been showing up in significant numbers along the southeastern U.S. coast. Lionfish are voracious hunters of small reef fish. NOAA scientists fear that the lionfish are aquarium trade escapes that may cause ecological problems as the population grows.
photographs, Orlando area & Merritt Island NWR, October 2008
Photographs from a photography and birding trip to various Florida parks in the Orlando area, and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge that surrounds the Kennedy Space Center.
paintings, summer 2008
glass house tour, september 2007
Philip Johnson gave his famous “glass house” estate in New Canaan, Connecticut to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The estate is now open for tours, and although tour availability is very limited through 2009, it is well worth the wait.
florida, february 2008
Photographs from a dive & photography trip to various Florida Keys parks, Key West, and diving trips to Molasses Reef in the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park off Key Largo.
two lakes, five eagles, january 2008
Bald Eagles are making a slow but encouraging come-back in Connecticut. In the 2008 Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey Noble Proctor and I saw 5 (2 adults, 3 immatures) January 12, 2008 over lakes Saltonstall and Gaillard in south central Connecticut.
core information design library
While working on a new edition of the Web Style Guide I realized that I have a core design library of 15 books that I refer to over and over again for both wisdom and design inspiration.
florida, october 2007
Photographs from a research trip to various Florida parks and national wildlife refuges, and a diving trip to Molasses Reef in the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park off Key Largo.
- Merritt Island, Orlando, and Green Cay, Boynton Beach, Florida
- Merritt Island, Key Largo, and coral reef photos
hammonasset herons, september 2007
Fall is the best time for birding in Hammonasset State Park along the Connecticut coast. This was a particularly lucky day, with a group of cooperative egrets and herons.
outer banks trip, july 2007
Various natural history photos and scenics from a recent trip to the Outer Banks, including Pea Island, Mattamuskeet, and Alligator River National Wildlife Refuges, and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
medical illustration contributions to wikimedia commons
During the 1990s I and my Yale colleagues Carl Jaffe, Phill Simon, Sean Jackson and Kimberly Pasko collaborated with various Yale faculty as the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media. During that decade I created hundreds of medical illustrations for our various multimedia educational projects. I have contributed high-resolution versions of the base anatomic artwork to the Wikimedia Commons, the media companion to Wikipedia. The artwork is freely available to any user, commercial or non-commercial, under a Creative Commons attribution license.
- all my Wikimedia contributions in a single category
- head anatomy illustrations
- anatomic plates & drawings
photography essays & collections
Recent photo collections on various themes:
videos
Two short videos on Venice, Italy and Hiram, Ohio, created as companions to the original photo essays:
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