the Daily Report
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How to make love to a ghost
Sunday morning, while dreaming, I began receiving messages from the other world. They covered matters of etiquette when interacting with the dead, and even offered glimpses of what the spirit life is like. They were…
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I’ll show you mine
What’s on your dashboard?
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Block
The longest journey begins. Or doesn’t.
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The Deck turns 21
Content wants to be free, but content providers want three squares a day.
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Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.
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Web type, iPhone content
In Issue 244 of A List Apart, father of CSS Håkon Lie advocates real TrueType fonts in web design, while Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry describes in detail how to optimize websites for iPhone.
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Hog butcher
A car is coming. It will take me to a building. In the building I will enter a ramp. The ramp will take me to a jet. The jet will take me to Chicago for…
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Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
CSS Sculptor includes 30 of the most common web page layouts—fixed-width, liquid, elastic, and combinations thereof—coded the way Eric Meyer would code them.
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San Francisco, here you come
I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying….
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What is Art Direction (No. 9)
A provocative poster deconstructed. How art direction communicates wordlessly, and how it differs from design. Disabled veterans, Gap ads, and James Gandolfini.
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10 Things the Next iPhone Will Do
iPhone, the next generation. The features will astound you.
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What crisis?
Have web standards died and gone to hell?
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Don’t design on spec
Happy Cog receives its share of RFPs, and sometimes these requests stipulate that our proposal include design work. Even if the project looks promising, we just say no.
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Staying creative
Everyone is creative. But some stay that way longer. How can you designers, writers, and the like, stay motivated and productive? (Plus: When the client says, “Make it like eBay,” what exactly does that mean?)
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A Sale of Two Cities
Join an amazing line-up of talented designers, developers, and thinkers for An Event Apart San Francisco — the final Event Apart show of 2007.