Category: Design

  • Mid-Century Modern

    Mid-Century Modern

    via blog.wanken.com From Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style

    Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style

    via opensword.org Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But…

  • David Berlow Type Specimens

    David Berlow Type Specimens

    “A collection of David Berlow’s prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen…

  • Tumblr v. Posterous

    Tumblr v. Posterous

    Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • Fold, Spindle

    Fold, Spindle

    Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a…

  • 60+ Free WordPress Themes

    60+ Free WordPress Themes

    Via instantshift.com Pulling the trigger just got easier. Now anyone can have a beautifully designed, standards-compliant WordPress site. The 60-plus recently created free WordPress themes (AKA template collections) listed by InstantShift’s Daniel Adams are categorized…

  • Icon Design Problem

    Icon Design Problem

    Quick: what’s a good, one-color icon shape that says “clear”? A circle with an X? A circle slash? No, this isn’t delete — this is like clearing the list in Safari’s download window. Just removing…

  • Wish I’d invented it

    Wish I’d invented it

    Arc90 Lab’s Readability is a simple and essential tool that “makes reading on the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.” Just choose your settings, install the bookmarklet in your browser’s…

  • How sick?

    How sick?

    How sick am I today? This sick.

  • Laying Pipe

    Laying Pipe

    Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…

  • Flash, iPad, Standards

    Flash, iPad, Standards

    Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash…

  • Hear This!

    Hear This!

    Dan Benjamin, creator of wonderful websites, apps, broadcasts, and platforms and longtime friend of A List Apart and your host, introduces a new venture. 5 by 5 Studios is a new internet broadcasting network, home…

  • SVG: A Second Look

    SVG: A Second Look

    In a special double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Shelley Powers takes a second look at SVG and likes what she sees. You may, too. Many of us think of…

  • Lost in Space

    Lost in Space

    Jeffrey Zeldman onstage at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Onno de Jong from last night’s AIGA/NY talk and birthday celebration, curated by Jason Santa Maria.

  • The Favorites Project

    The Favorites Project