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- On the Subject of Design 2
- Once again I’m adding to my list of recommended books with some good reads I’ve come across in the past few years.
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- Stuff That Matters
- I’ve made it official: I’ve started a design studio called Mighty.
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- On Web Typography
- Well, it only took nearly a hundred issues since working on the A List Apart redesign for me to get around to writing an article.
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- Botan Rice Candy
- There’s a communal dimension to the candy that you eat as a kid. By Khoi Vinh
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- In Sugar We Trust
- When I was growing up, holidays offered early indications that communication design was in my future. By Rob Weychert
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- Mathematics of the Tootsie Pop
- Nothing was more contested in our neighborhood than how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. By Liz Danzico
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- Brain Food
- No, there will be no crying over spilt Nerds here. My choice, instead, is the thinking man’s candy, the brain food packed in an orderly tube of tablets known in the U.S. as Smarties. By Rob Giampietro
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- All Things Nice
- I remember the candy cigarettes most fondly, not because they tasted better, but because they were grown-up. By Mandy Brown
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- Introducing Typedia
- Today, I’m very pleased to announce the launch of a new site I put together with the generous help of friends called Typedia.
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- Where’d You Go?
- As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been taking a bit of a break lately. But there’s some exciting stuff coming up in the not too distant future.
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- Listening Between the Leading
- I was recently interviewed for the Read Between the Leading podcast.
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- Reflections on Layer Tennis
- Last Friday I played in Coudal Partner’s Layer Tennis in a east coast vs west coast brawl with Derek Powazek, a friend and one of my favorite web designers. I thought it might be fun to give some background on the match.
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- In Person
- I’m trying to cut back a bit on travel and speaking dates this year, but I’ll still be out and about a few times.
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- Leaving Happy Cog
- After nearly five years of working with some of the smartest and most caring people I’ve ever met, I’ve decided to leave Happy Cog.
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- The Death Throes of Print?
- With print publications ailing, is this finally the time mainstream publishing to take the web seriously?
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- 24ways
- I wrote a new article for 24ways called Making Modular Layout Systems.
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- Progress Report
- Looking back on how this experiment is going.
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- Profiled
- The PDF of my profile in .net magazine.
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- Meat & Cheese Combo Proves Edible
- On September 27th, a group of intrepid explorers sought one goal on the streets of New York City, to find a decent cheesesteak. This is their story.
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- Cheesesteak Scorecard
- The all important scorecard for grading cheesesteaks on the Cheesesteak Crawl.
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- Updating
- A few quick updates to the site, including: entry thumbnails in the Articles Archive, individual comment feeds for entries, and a small revamp of the Recommended Reading section.
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- Change of Heart
- Quotes from Jan Tschichold, master typographer, designer, writer and infamous design flip-flopper.
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- Explain Yourself
- Contemplations on the utility of “graphic” in the title “graphic designer” for someone who designs websites.
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- Touch, See, and Hear
- A survey for people who make websites, a film of people who make things, and an evening of people who read books.
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- If You Were a Typeface…
- A bit of cheesy fun: tell me what typeface best represents you. Extra points for additional typeface info.
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- Appearing
- A podcast interview with CreativeXpert and a live speaking event for Field-Tested Books in NYC on July 28th.
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- Shake it Like a Metaphorical Picture
- Sometime next year, Polaroid will stop producing instant film. This represents a huge blow to photography, but also a loss of one of our greatest visual metaphors.
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- Kiss of Death
- I retire the use of the Slanty Photo Treatment™ from my design repertoire. Good riddance.
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- Variation Within Constraints
- When I design sites in my professional life, I try to create an experience that will work for the majority of the site’s visitors and will also be engaging, and most times, in that order. With my personal site, I’m pretty much trying the reverse of that.
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- A New Day
- I still like my old site design; it feels distinct even now, and I didn’t really see the point in redesigning until I needed to. My old site stayed in generally the same form for nearly five years. But I finally caved and redesigned. So, why the change? I’m glad you asked.
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