Category: Design
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Not at our desk
Apologies for the quiet, here. We’ve been enjoying family time in San Francisco, leading up to the final Event Apart show of the year.
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Say hello to web standards
There’s something new at Apple’s online store: web standards and accessibility.
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To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.
iPhone and iPod classic compared.
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Just My Type of Site
i love typography cites 15 examples of typographic excellence in web design. A List Apart, ShaunInman.com, FontShop, Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, and BearskinRug Shop lead a pack of inspiring sites worth studying.
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An Event Apart savings end tomorrow
$100 savings on our final Event Apart conference of the year end Saturday, September 15. If you’re planning to attend An Event Apart San Francisco, reserve your seat before the price goes up.
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Client input, iPhone constraints
Collaborative work sessions that actually work; designing and coding with the iPhone in mind.
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How to make love to a ghost
Sunday morning, while dreaming, I began receiving messages from the other world. They covered matters of etiquette when interacting with the dead, and even offered glimpses of what the spirit life is like. They were…
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Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.
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Web type, iPhone content
In Issue 244 of A List Apart, father of CSS Håkon Lie advocates real TrueType fonts in web design, while Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry describes in detail how to optimize websites for iPhone.
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Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
CSS Sculptor includes 30 of the most common web page layouts—fixed-width, liquid, elastic, and combinations thereof—coded the way Eric Meyer would code them.
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San Francisco, here you come
I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying….
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What is Art Direction (No. 9)
A provocative poster deconstructed. How art direction communicates wordlessly, and how it differs from design. Disabled veterans, Gap ads, and James Gandolfini.
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Don’t design on spec
Happy Cog receives its share of RFPs, and sometimes these requests stipulate that our proposal include design work. Even if the project looks promising, we just say no.
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Staying creative
Everyone is creative. But some stay that way longer. How can you designers, writers, and the like, stay motivated and productive? (Plus: When the client says, “Make it like eBay,” what exactly does that mean?)
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A Sale of Two Cities
Join an amazing line-up of talented designers, developers, and thinkers for An Event Apart San Francisco — the final Event Apart show of 2007.