Category: Design
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Pick Up Hicks
JON HICKS. One of twelve great reasons to attend An Event Apart Boston 2015. Zeldman.com fans, save $100 at registration using discount code AEAZELD. Jon Hicks is a Graphic Designer based in Oxfordshire, UK. He…
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Big Web Show ? 125: “You’re My Favorite Client” with Mike Monteiro
Monteiro and I talk design: Designers Mike Monteiro (author, “You’re My Favorite Client”) and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss why humility is expensive, how to reassure the client at every moment that you know what you’re doing,…
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Designer Blindness
If your design works for 80% of the people, give me a shout. I’ll depress you posthaste.
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A Holiday Wish
We are all designers. You may call yourself a front-end developer, but if you spend hours shaving half-seconds off an interaction, that’s user experience and you, my friend, are a designer. If the client asks,…
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Big Web Show ? 123: Why Clients Spend More on Toilets Than Design
DESIGNER Andy Budd and I discuss why clients spend more on toilet cleaning than design; honest pitching; the ins and outs of agile pricing; modular code libraries; selling web services instead of deliverables; the maturation…
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Webfonts with Stylistic Sets from Hoefler & Co.
Now there’s a way to transform your web typography at the touch of a button: introducing Stylistic Sets for webfonts at Cloud.typography. www.typography.com/blog/webfonts-with-stylistic-sets/
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Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter
Just beautiful. demosthenes.info/blog/961/Big-Beautiful-DropCaps-with-CSS-initial-letter
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? Flickr is about to sell off your Creative Commons photos
SHORTSIGHTED and sucky. From Dazed comes news that Flickr is about to sell off our Creative Commons photos. This means photos we’ve taken with the idea of giving them away freely will now be sold,…
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No Ken Do (Musketeer Barbie Saves the Prince)
I WATCHED dozens of Barbie videos hundreds of times when my daughter was three and four years old. I can’t praise their animation, dialog, or other cinematic and literary qualities, but this I can say…
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Love, Devotion, Surrender
5:00 AM at San Francisco Airport, Gate 41. A young mother, whose orange capped son sleeps profoundly across her lap, is not faring well with her mobile phone call. Her voice cuts like a razor…
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Tested
WE ARE at a test prep program in Flatiron, where Ava is grudgingly taking an entrance exam. Lance, the program director, is good. He guarantees he can get Ava into a good middle school if…
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Dead Pixel Society
FANS OF ICON ART and The Big Web Show, listen up. Tomorrow’s Big Web Show guest is Justin Dauer (AKA @pseudoroom) of The Dead Pixel Society. Justin was a web icon artist in the mid-1990s,…
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On Design Conferences
A GOOD CONFERENCE is a designed experience. I don’t mean a visually over-designed brandgasm. I mean an educational and emotionally considered narrative. To me, the ideal conference offers a single track, so that all attendees…
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Original Hip Hop Art
WHY THE INTERNET was invented: this single-page, no-frills website presents a trove of original, old-school hip hop party posters mainly designed by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2, and featuring legendary rappers before they got famous.…
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Netdiver returns
PIONEERING design ‘zine Netdiver is back, baby! Founded by my friend and colleague Carole Guevin in 1998, Netdiver was one of the first web ‘zines to seriously explore and promote design and design culture on…