Art. Lebedev Studio “was founded in 1995. At present, it is the largest design company in Russia.”.

“We do industrial design, graphic design, web design and interface engineering.”.

In Mandership, Artemy Lebedev writes about graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization.

From Coding. Part two :

“One of the most successful implementations of audio coding can be heard in the Moscow metro.
A male voice announces stations when the train is headed towards downtown, a female voice when it moves from the center to city outskirts (sort of a mnemonic rule: the boss calling you to work, the wife calling you home).”.

From the top: Optimus mini, world’s first keyboard with color screen; Gond, by Alexander Zhitomirsky.

Humanmetrics provides a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality classification test.

I did it.

Well, I am supposed to be an ISTJ (Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging) as described from Heiss and Butt in Typelogic .

I don’t know if I must be happy or not…

“Some stories are about how you react to a problem or conflict. Often, those are the most interesting.”.

How to write a short story, and much more, from eHow : “clear instructions on How To Do (just about) everything”. For example…

How to say no to colleagues
How to remember names
How to forgive
How to be happy

“Most products we see on the market want to increase our productivity, organize our screen joyfully or make wonders with our sound card, but NaDa™ does nothing.”.

“There are no bugs in NaDa™. It is impossible.”.
(By Bernard Belanger)

“An ordinary day in a block of flats…” Neuro, a short cartoon by Bruno Bozzetto. Music and sound effects: Roberto Frattini.

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