Category: Design

  • Rise Above

    Rise Above

    M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com. Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.

  • Web Education on Big Web Show

    Web Education on Big Web Show

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School…

  • Twitter Top 140

    Twitter Top 140

    “Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting…

  • Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design

    Hot dang! Use fluid grids, flexible images, and CSS media queries to create elegant user experiences that fit any browser or device’s viewport. By Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition. A…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…

  • Boston Bound

    Boston Bound

    Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…

  • Something’s coming

    Something’s coming

    Could be! Who knows? There’s something due any day; I will know right away, Soon as it shows.

  • And now, Google

    And now, Google

    THE long-planned inevitable has now been announced. With open-source-licensed web fonts, web font hosting, and add-a-line-to-your-header ease of configuration, Google has joined Typekit, Font Squirrel, Ascender, Font Bureau and others in forever changing the meaning…

  • Apple Responds

    Apple Responds

    Via yfrog.com/83n4fp. See also: TechCrunch: Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight, by MG Siegler, 13 May 2010 Apple.com: Thoughts on Flash, Steve Jobs, April 2010 The Big Web Show Episode 2: HTML5…

  • TypeFaces

    TypeFaces

    TypeFaces web designer playing cards are the shiz! I want!

  • Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Now online for your listening and viewing pleasure: in Episode 2 of The Big Web Show, Dan and I chat with Jeremy Keith—designer, developer, content creator, agency co-founder, speaker extraordinaire, and author of HTML5 for…

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers

    HTML5 For Web Designers

    WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…

  • A Feed Apart preview

    A Feed Apart preview

    Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.

  • Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    FOR YOUR viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show’s Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit…