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- The Candy Parenthesis
- I don’t like candy. by Robin Sloan
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- IE9 and the Lost World’s Fairs
- Internet Explorer 9 now supports WOFF, and the Friends of Mighty have joined forces to explore typographic possibilities on the web.
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- A Real Web Design Application
- The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.
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- FullCodePress 2010
- I’m fresh back from New Zealand where I took part in Full Code Press, a knock down, drag out, web design competition to make a website for a charity in 24 hours
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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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- 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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- Deadlines
- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
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- Listening Between the Leading
- I was recently interviewed for the Read Between the Leading podcast.
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- What’s Golden
- The rule of thirds and ratios such as the golden section are fantastic methods for achieving designs that feel cohesive. The problem is these principles don’t really apply to web design.
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- Pretty Sketchy
- Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist, they’re about being a good thinker.
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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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- Cultivating Conversations
- Is there a way to make comment threads more useful, and more usable?
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- My First Website
- Preserving the web, one embarrassing personal site at a time.
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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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- Haunted
- Happy Halloween!
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- On the Subject of Design
- Good books are tough to find, so I’ve begun keeping track of notable ones.
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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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- 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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On the Subject of Me
Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer living and working in sunny Brooklyn, NY. More »
A Book Apart
- “Insightful, witty and practical, Responsive Web Design points us in the direction of a new web.”
—Mark Boulton
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Daily Photography
Oddities & Diversions
Design Is History, created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. Chock full of great info. †
Education at FontShop, a great resource for tips, tricks, and type knowledge. †
A List Apart: Issue 311, Start web design projects the right way. Learn when and how to say no. Articles by Whitney Hess and Kevin M. Hoffman. †
Articles
A Whack on the Side of the Head
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