The Daily Report
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Freelance Nation
IT’S BEEN CALLED the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-conomy, with the “e” standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S.…
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Kiss a jet age masterpiece goodbye
WHILE ABC has conspicuously begun to celebrate the early jet age, the Port Authority has begun to tear it down. Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport — a crisp island of aesthetic tranquility by the…
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Have Slides, Will Travel
OCTOBER brings the smells of burning leaves, the warmth of hot cider, and much speaking for yours truly: On October 12, I’ll deliver the keynote address at Do It With Drupal 2011 at the Marriott…
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Deck Ad Deal: Champagne Eyeballs on a Beer Budget
CALLING ALL STARTUPS. Got a product or service that appeals to the digitally with-it? Put your message in front of millions of web-smart, design-savvy individuals via the premier network for reaching creative, web, and design…
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A Better Franklin
I’VE TWEAKED the layout here with ITC Franklin Condensed from Webtype. It’s funny. My daughter always asks what’s my favorite color, and I can never answer, ’cause I love them all. With color, it depends…
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OFF MY LAWN!
FROM 1996 TO 1999, I interviewed movie stars and web designers. Between 1998 and 1999, I published my favorite interviews in this little site. Then I stopped. Here it is, just as it was —…
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Download in the Dumps (AKA Killing Me Softly With Adobe)
In which our intrepid reporter is unable to download and reinstall Adobe software he owns and paid for because Adobe. I REMOVED Adobe CS5 from my studio Mac after it took on water damage during…
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A List Apart 335: Banish your inner critic; tear down the wall between designer and client
BANISH THE INNER CRITIC that blocks your creativity and tear down the wall between you and your client that design buzzwords create. It’s easy with help from Issue No. 335 of A List Apart for…
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Boston Globe’s Responsive Redesign. Discuss.
AS EVERY WEB DESIGNER not living under a rock hopefully already knows, The Boston Globe has had a responsive redesign at the hands of some of today’s best designers and developers: The spare Globe website…
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Ten Years Ago Today
On 27th Street, a couple is passionately kissing. Behind them, the sky is filled with white smoke. Everyone has left work. It’s like the Fourth of July. And then again it’s nothing like the Fourth…
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My Hero
EPIC BLOG POST from Blake Watson, a web designer with spinal muscular atrophy type 2, tremendous courage and faith, and an awesome mom: We Still Have Our Dreams at ihatestairs.org
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The Multi-Size Web
HERE IS a fine collection of articles, frameworks, and other tools for a “mobile first” approach to (mainly responsive) web design. Well done, Mr Haidara. The Multi-Size Web: a Computing bag by Eric Haidara at…
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A List Apart 334
IN ISSUE NO. 334 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Marry Your Clients: Learn to keep the client/agency relationship warm and passionate over time. Being Human is Good Business: Turn word of…
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Ava’s first comic strip
Bucktooth character: “I wonder what is in this box. It is cute.” Other character: “That is a brick.” Bucktooth character: “Oops, I’ve been trying to open it all day.” Ava’s first comic strip | Flickr…