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Design
- Bad design, good design, my design, your design. Also includes thoughts on such thrilling topics as typography, color, aesthetics, and theory.
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- Responsive Web Design
- This book could very well change the way you make and think about creating websites.
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- The Elements of Content Strategy
- We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from the ever brilliant, Erin Kissane: The Elements of Content Strategy.
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- CSS3 for Web Designers
- We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from web design mastermind, Dan Cederholm: CSS3 for Web Designers.
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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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- Announcing A Book Apart
- I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself.
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- On Good
- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
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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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- Make Yourself Presentable
- My first time speaking professionally in public was back in 2005 at the first An Event Apart in Philadelphia. Let’s just say it could have gone better.
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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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- Royal
- I enjoy slowing things down and reflecting on past methods of creation and how they’ve brought about our modern means.
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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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- 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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- What the World Needs
- “Art?! As soon as there’s a war or recession, art will be the first thing to go. And when that happens, you’ll be right back here washing dishes. People will always need cooks.”
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- Simple.
- Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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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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- On the Subject of Design
- Good books are tough to find, so I’ve begun keeping track of notable ones.
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- Hello, My Name Is
- Badges are often a decidedly unfun and necessary evil of attending conferences. I have a pile of the things, some too big or too small, and others so garish they feel like a punishment. I can deal with an ugly badge, but I hate an unusable one.
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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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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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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. †
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