Category: better-know-a-speaker

  • My Night With Essl

    My Night With Essl

    Herewith, a scene from last night’s interview with legendary web & book designer (and Dean of The Cooper Union School of Art) Mike Essl, who shared his portfolio, career highlights, early web design history, and…

  • Big Web Show ? 150: Giant Paradigm Shifts and Other Delights With Brad Frost

    Big Web Show ? 150: Giant Paradigm Shifts and Other Delights With Brad Frost

    BOY, was this show overdue. For the first time ever on The Big Web Show, I chat with my friend, front-end developer extraordinaire Brad Frost, author of the spanking new book, Atomic Design. We have…

  • Next Generation CSS Layout With Rachel Andrew

    Next Generation CSS Layout With Rachel Andrew

    SINCE the early days of the web, designers have been trying to lay out web pages using grid systems. Likewise, almost every CSS framework attempts to implement some kind of grid system, using floats and…

  • Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011: “Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you…

  • The Big Web Show Episode 16: Serious Doodles

    The Big Web Show Episode 16: Serious Doodles

    Sunni Brown (website, Twitter) is our guest on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Sunni is a business owner, author, and…

  • Minneapolis Remembered

    Minneapolis Remembered

    The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…

  • 37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I…

  • Boston Bound

    Boston Bound

    Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…

  • Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Now online for your listening and viewing pleasure: in Episode 2 of The Big Web Show, Dan and I chat with Jeremy Keith—designer, developer, content creator, agency co-founder, speaker extraordinaire, and author of HTML5 for…

  • Hate and Love

    Hate and Love

    Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale. (My SXSW photos. Scott’s SXSW photos.)

  • Laying Pipe

    Laying Pipe

    Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…

  • Lost in Space

    Lost in Space

    Jeffrey Zeldman onstage at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Onno de Jong from last night’s AIGA/NY talk and birthday celebration, curated by Jason Santa Maria.

  • A Look Back

    A Look Back

    Machine-tagged photos from An Event Apart San Francisco 2009, ranked by “interestingness.” By Kris Krug, Pete Karl II, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others. Featuring Nicole Sullivan, Andy Budd, and many more. Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=3247

  • Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Today in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum…

  • Seattle-bound

    Seattle-bound

    City of Puget Sound, Jimi Hendrix, and the space needle, here I come for An Event Apart Seattle 2009.