Category: creativity

  • “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Part of this complete breakfast.

  • Your Guide to An Event Apart Boston

    Your Guide to An Event Apart Boston

    The complete schedule for An Event Apart Boston is now online for your reading and viewing pleasure.

  • Jason Has Left the Building

    Jason Has Left the Building

    Beginnings and endings.

  • Real type on the web?

    Real type on the web?

    A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C.

  • Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.

  • Around the Word with Web Talent

    Around the Word with Web Talent

    My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…

  • Flowers in your hair

    Flowers in your hair

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its San Francisco 2008 schedule. Join us August 18–19, 2008 at the Palace Hotel for two jam-packed 9.5-hour-long days of learning and…

  • Stick out your tongue

    Stick out your tongue

    While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…

  • Monday links

    Monday links

    Chopsticks by Segura. A greener LA via Boston. Stealing patterns, making models. Samurai errata and SXSW bowling.

  • Appreciating web design; setting type

    Appreciating web design; setting type

    Appreciating web design for what it is instead of wishing it were something it’s not; plus a better best practice for setting type on the web via CSS. And from the past: why typographically correct…

  • Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film

    Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film

    Hi-ho, the motherfuckin’ dairy-o, motherfucker! etc.

  • Staying creative

    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?)