A Visit to the Salon

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Guest Post by Nick Burka (my twin brother)

I don't quite know how it started, but 3 years on I'm still doing it. Shortly after Salon.com changed their layout to the way it appears now, I became enamored by their clever and well designed front-page category images. Periodically I would stop and save images that I liked, ones that caught my eye, or any that appeared to have something interesting about them. After 3 years I've amassed quite a collection, over 750 of them. It's neither complete nor well organized, but it's still a fun archive to browse. I've posted a page (in roughly but not quite chronological order) of my collection.

Some of my favourites from a quick glance over the list are:

Boys in Science and Math The Bush Headache Marching Off to War Sands of Time Guernica Jon Stewart Missle Defense CBS UNITE! (all time fav) Howard Stern as Saint Sebastian Cover Your Eyes

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Daniel Burka -

Thanks for the post bro. I've always really liked Salon's illustrations too. This one of Michael Powell (FCC Chairman) is up there in my favorites.

David Franks -

Thanks for collecting these. I really like this illustration a lot. It'd be really cool if you had the article title, date, and artist behind each one listed. I know that'd be a ridiculous amount of work, but all the same...

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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