The Daily Report

  • An Event Apart Seattle

    An Event Apart Seattle

  • Should Publishers Attend SXSW?

    Should Publishers Attend SXSW?

    In Should Publishers Attend SXSW?, Lorraine Shanley of Publishing Trends answers her own question this way: Yes, because sxsw offers a chance to see options for the future—amazing gaming, interactive software, inventive marketing, creative content development and…

  • Screw the haters

    Screw the haters

    Tasteful and true: iPad wallpaper by Anders J. Svensson at Veer’s The Skinny.

  • Friday Font: TeeFranklin

    Friday Font: TeeFranklin

    Gloriously available for @font-face embedding, TeeFranklin by Suomi Type Foundry at Fontspring is a family of 14 weights/styles that may be perfect when you want to offer something a tad different from Helvetica and Franklin…

  • +1

    +1

    I get just enough brain-dead, sub-literate, off-topic rants here that I’m considering removing comments altogether. Discuss. April Fools. Comments are now closed.

  • Web Standards Trinkets

    Web Standards Trinkets

    Support Web Standards: A collection of limited edition products, created so you can show your love and support for web standards.

  • DWWS3e Live on Boagworld

    DWWS3e Live on Boagworld

    There’s been a lot more opportunities for just thinking outside the very strict design parameters that we usually work with. Then just thinking about not just designing for any particular device but a particular context.…

  • On Basecamp

    On Basecamp

    In an interview at 37signals, I discuss how the Happy Cog team uses Basecamp to coordinate projects across three studios and maintain accurate client communications.

  • What the FAQ?

    What the FAQ?

    In Issue No. 303 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we question the received wisdom about FAQs, and learn that, in the land of the colorblind, contrast is king. Contrast is King…

  • Test Print

    Test Print

    Coming soon to a web store near you.

  • Brandon Grotesque

    Brandon Grotesque

    Brandon Grotesque is a sans serif family of six weights plus matching italics, designed by Hannes von Döhren. Influenced by the geometric-style sans serif faces that were popular during the 1920s and 30s, the fonts…

  • Content wants to be paid for

    Content wants to be paid for

    Content wants to be free like communism works, like sex is just for fun, like a few days of snow disprove global warming. That the web’s existence makes all content free is a Brooklyn Bridge…

  • George Lois Tee

    George Lois Tee

    TypographyShop presents the first design in its new series, the Ten Commandments of George Lois, created with the approval and cooperation of the hall of fame art director himself. The new shirt reads: “Great ideas…

  • Blur

    Blur

    Presumably in order to avoid having to pay the child model and secure a release, Google deliberately blurred the Gap Kid model’s face on the giant outdoor Gap Kids poster before uploading this photo (and…

  • A List Apart: Just the Stats

    A List Apart: Just the Stats

    Continuing with our “data, and what we can learn from it” theme, here are A List Apart‘s four most popular individual pages this week (excluding the home page, with 178,270 page views). Pay particular attention…