Category: Design

  • Untitled post 2877

    Registration is now open for An Event Apart 2010.

  • Beep ’n Me, Live

    Beep ’n Me, Live

    Join Ethan Marcotte and me tonight at 8:00 PM EDT on the CreativeXpert Live Show, an interview and podcast with live listener call-in via Skype and Twitter.

  • Am I Blue

    Am I Blue

    The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.

  • Chicago Deep Dish

    Chicago Deep Dish

    AEA Chicago, wrapped.

  • Saving Papers

    Saving Papers

    How to save print.

  • Chicago Sells Out

    Chicago Sells Out

    An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.

  • For your pleasure

    For your pleasure

    Reviving an old zeldman.com tradition, we once again present downloadable desktop images for your computer screen and pleasure. Number one in a series: Meet Harry.

  • MFA Interaction Design, Day 1

    MFA Interaction Design, Day 1

    Last night, the School of Visual Arts’ spanking new MFA program in Interaction Design opened its doors to 18 special students.

  • Loving HTML5

    Loving HTML5

    Half of standards making is minutia, and the other half is politics. Rightly or wrongly, I’ve always suspected that Atom was born, not so much of necessity, as from ideological conflicts between the XML crowd…

  • DWWS 3e mini-site updates

    DWWS 3e mini-site updates

    The new mini-site for the 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards has been updated, with additional information about the substantially revised web standards guidebook, and with tweaks to the CSS which, one hopes, now…

  • Kindling II

    Kindling II

    Two salient points, omitted from the previous discussion and verified this morning, are worth mentioning.

  • Cogs at South-by

    Cogs at South-by

    With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy…

  • Kindling

    Kindling

    The process by which books are converted to Kindle format introduces errors which do not get corrected. Every publisher knows this, though none will say so on record. The problem is one of economics. The…

  • Click My Lit Panel

    Click My Lit Panel

    In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…

  • Web fonts and standards

    Web fonts and standards

    Will middlemen help or hurt the adoption of web font licensing standards and cross-browser support?