Drawing The Menu Icon

Gabrielle Gosha offers alternatives for drawing the hamburger icon used to indicate a menu.

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London Tube Map

Alex Walker explores the graphic design of the London Tube map . He notes it is a very inaccurate presentation of London geography, but it captures the relationship between stations in a comprehensible way.

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Library Graphic Changes With Time

I discovered that the American Library Association has developed a new graphic to reflect the new reality of electronic information access.

The old graphic was an individual reading a book:


while the new graphic shows a person at a laptop:


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Graphic Design Principles

James George reviews principles of design which govern printed information as well as Web pages.

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