Category: Design
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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…
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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…
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Web fonts and standards
Will middlemen help or hurt the adoption of web font licensing standards and cross-browser support?
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Vote for best of web
Whereas awards for graphic design, art direction, and advertising routinely honor the finest work in their respective fields each year, awards for web work disappoint. The .net magazine awards 2009 are that rare exception, put…
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Shorten this
Roll your own mini-URLs.
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Past Blast
We’ve got mail!
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ALA 289: Redesign yourself
In Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: 90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. In this special issue, we look…
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Happy Cog and Airbag merge
Happy Cog™ and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging, effective today, August 3, 2009. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in…
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.
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In-Box Twenty
What’s inside.
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…
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ALA 288: Access & semantics
In Issue No. 288 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: How to integrate accessibility with front-end development instead of treating it as an afterthought—an item on a checklist. And why not every…
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Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.
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Web Fonts Now, for real
David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…
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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.