Category: Ideas
Take them and run.
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Sleep never sleeps
Dreamed my parents were getting divorced. I’d be asking my momma why, and she would turn into my wife. The conscious mind deals with what is in front of you, the unconscious processes what has…
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Layer Tennis Around the World
Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with…
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George Lois Tee
TypographyShop presents the first design in its new series, the Ten Commandments of George Lois, created with the approval and cooperation of the hall of fame art director himself. The new shirt reads: “Great ideas…
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Crowdsourcing Dickens
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…
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Gowalla My Dreams
What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could…
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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…
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Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
THE DEATHS of Leslie Harpold and Brad Graham, in addition to being tragic and horrible and sad, have highlighted the questionable long-term viability of blogs, personal sites, and web magazines as legitimate artistic and literary…
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Wig out
Seen on Graham Norton, Anderson Cooper 360, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Business Week, CosmoGirl, and more, Julie Jackson’s Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs makes the perfect holiday gift. Alas, it is temporarily out of…
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This is My Brain on Flickr
Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=3125
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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, HTML 5 roundup
Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.
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Real fonts on the web, part 2
Introducing Typekit.
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Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
Fonts you can legally embed in your website using the CSS standard @font-face method. Why you’d want to. State of the art.
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AEA Seattle after-report
Relive those AEA Seattle memories (or enjoy the show vicariously) via sketches, photos, and Tweets.
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.