Category: events

Places to go, people to see. Conferences, seminars, festivals.

  • An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on. Maybe it was the people. Maybe it was the extraordinary speakers. Or the staff, who made everything hum and shine. Or…

  • Looks good to Mies

    Looks good to Mies

    The Seed Conference, held in Crown Hall (the “Cathedral of Modernism” designed by Mies van der Rohe) is a one-day event about design, entrepreneurship, and inspiration. Speakers include Jason Fried (37signals), Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners),…

  • SXSW Parents Cooperatives

    SXSW Parents Cooperatives

    Attending a two-day educational conference without your kids is not a huge deal, but SXSW lasts a week. The choices are not good: See the whole show but miss your kids for a week? Bring…

  • Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”

  • Podcast news

    Podcast news

    The first video podcasts from SXSW.

  • The SXSW Diet

    The SXSW Diet

    A minute later she came back, revolving them a few inches from my lips.

  • Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics

    Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics

    Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers…

  • An Event Apart New Orleans

    An Event Apart New Orleans

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, kicks off its 2008 season with An Event Apart New Orleans, a monster, 19-hour, two-day creative session. Join us April 24–25 at the Hilton…

  • Blue Beanie Day

    Blue Beanie Day

    On Monday, November 26, 2007, don your blue beanie to show your support for web standards and accessibility.

  • Facts and Opinions about Zeldman

    Facts and Opinions about Zeldman

    Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.

  • Faster, pussycat

    Faster, pussycat

    Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.

  • That’s me all over

    That’s me all over

    In the coming weeks, I’ll speak at Future of Web Design (NYC), Business Week (NYC), Web Design World (Boston), and Web Directions North (Vancouver, BC).

  • Please and thank you

    Please and thank you

    An Event Apart thanks its attendees, speakers, and sponsors for a great 2007, and announces dates and locations for 2008.

  • Not at our desk

    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.

  • Event Apart Chicago wrap-up

    Event Apart Chicago wrap-up

    The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.