The new Photoshop CS6 beta has been published, interesting are the features for lens distortion correction, the improved content-aware tools and the new crop, that at least is intuitive as the Photoshop Lightroom one.

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Everyone someday find herself in the position of finding the best font that fits for a particular text, logo or editorial project.
After a long research I found an application: it's well done, it's exactly what I was looking for... and it's free.

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A case study from the concept...

• Mission
• Target
• Values
• Difference from competitors
• Benefits

...to the Idea R brand.

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The purpose of a brand is to tell a story, creating recognizable codes: the style identifies the brand, while the code is used to establish the communication. The target is to not go wrong with the dress (the code) for a specific party (the style). The maximum that a brand can get is when the designer accomplices to build the party on the dress.

Let's take a look on how three IT bigs made war upon each other, using communication codes and semiotics.

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Let's try to create a simple infographic starting from an XML file containing data about the carbon dioxide emissions in Europe.

To position the data on a map, we have to add the latitude and longitude fields for each european country (we have not to be precise).

To use the data we have to load them into an XML data source, using the System.Xml.XmlDataSource object, but the problem is that the object wants the record fields specified as node attributes.

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