The “Reset Design Tatoo” is a special series made by some of Reset Design’s favorite designers. The series will be part of the “Eden Adn” Exhibition during the next St. Etienne Design Biennale (22 November to 3 December). You can peruse the collection online at Reset Design. Shown here: “Zip” by Levy Arik.

It’s not just about Websites…London-based research and design consultancy Flow is marking World Usability Day with a campaign to get people to speak up about all things that make their life needlessly difficult. Confusing cash machines, unclear signs, frustrating websites - poor usability is everywhere and it gets in the way of life. Sometimes it is just annoying. At other times it stops us doing what we need to do.

It can even be dangerous.

World Usability Day is an international event promoting the message that people have had enough of things that are hard to use. They want people to share their usability frustrations with their fellow sufferers. Record your experiences at the campaign website MakingLifeEasy and vote for on the uploaded examples.

DMC performed at the Chocolate Fashion show on 9 November in New York. The show, attended in force at $200 per ticket, benefited The Felix Organization – Adoptees For Children, a foundation created in February of 2006 by Darryl “DMC” McDaniels (from Run DMC) and Sheila Jaffe, the casting director of “The Sopranos” and “Entourage”, both adoptees. Grand Marnier and Baskin Robbins were sponsors to a catwalk filled with lighthearted and some-what serious fashions that were adorned with, partially made with, and accessorized with chocolate. For more information about the designers and photos, visit The Chocolate Show. Let them eat chocolate!

Commenting in the latest EDIT 6 magazine and webzine at www.gettyimages.com/edit, Lewis Blackwell, Group Creative Director at Getty Images says that “less than 20 years ago, you could always tell the advertising images from the editorial ones. Ads were at least aspirational, if not totally dreamlike. Sometimes they were lurid in colour. Editorial was gritty realism and always black and white.

“Now it is nearly always colour for news, with only upmarket advertising being likely to opt for a full-page black-and-white image. Authenticity is a key watchword in much advertising photography, while our finest photojournalism is often remarkable for its symbolic power and surrealistic eye for the strangeness of life”, says Lewis. Read the rest of this entry »