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Historical Voices from North Carolina

Visitors to the Emerging Issues Commons may be drawn in by large-scale displays visualizing data, interactive tables enabling them to add their own suggestions for how to improve North Carolina’s future, or the voice of Governor Hunt greeting them from the

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Research and design at 2S

Recently a graphic design student asked a few questions for a paper she is writing on Second Story. Here’s my response: How much research is put into developing certain designs, such as the Age of Mammals Specimen Interactives? Many of our clients…

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Universal Principles

Recently, while watching Gary Hustwit’s Objectified, I was reintroduced to the master industrial designer Dieter Rams’ “Ten Commandments” of design. Good design is innovativeGood design makes a product usefulGood design is aestheticGood design mak…

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