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We recently had an excellent opportunity to visit Cleveland, Ohio. In our spare time we got to visit a piece of Cleveland's University Circle where we visited the exceptionally fascinating Cleveland Botanical Garden and the instantly recognizable Frank Gehry building on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. The Peter B. Lewis Building definitely achieves Gehry's goal of creating feeling. Feelings of excitement and forces of creative approaches.

In case you auto archive your Adobe Edge email newsletter, there's an interview with Eric Meyer in the latest one.

Towards the end he gives a string of CSS resources that he likes. They must be good!

Steven Heller's interview with Nichelle Narcisi started me on quite an adventure reading about the recent AIGA Next Conference. Sounds like those of us that missed it, really did miss out.

Narcisi won a reality style design competition at the conference called Command X where young designers were given a day to prepare designs to be judged by the seasoned pros.

Jason Schneider published 12 short and simple rules for making photos at popphoto.com.

Rule 6 could come in particularly handy for designers.

6. Largest Digital Print Rule

To calculate in inches the largest photo-quality print you can
make with a digital camera, divide the vertical and horizontal pixel
counts (see your manual) by 200. For critical applications, or if you
want exhibition-quality prints, divide the pixel counts by 250.

Which rule will make your images better?

Over the last few days I've been going over my HOW Conference materials typing notes and discarding things from the folder like presentation handouts from a QuarkXpress session. The conference was truly rich with inspiration and it has been difficult to visit all the links without clicking a couple time and becoming distracted.

I have been quite fascinated with the design of political logos and, more recently, websites. Particularly presidential campaigns. So I was delighted to find a cartoon slideshow reviewing many of the treasures from this year. Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos