Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 95
July 29, 2010
10K Apart – inspire the web!
Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest ("Inspire the web with just 10K") presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield's 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the HTML5-powered web of tomorrow … and encouraging us to design that web today.
We want beauty. We want utility. We want excitement. And we want it all under 10K:
SIZE — Total file size, including images, scripts & markup, can't be over 10K.STANDARDS — We encourage...
Design Apps for Fun and Profit
Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big Web Show. Whether you're a social media user/creator, an entrepreneur, an application developer, an iconist or illustrator, a freelancer with big dreams, an API wizard, a devotee of marketing 2.0, a web designer, a Gowalla fan, or what, you won't want to miss this episode.
The Big Web Show is taped in front of a live internet audience, and you can be part of it. Join co-host D...
Minneapolis Remembered
The show's over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a "TED of web design," a dozen of the most exciting speakers and visionaries in our industry explained why this moment in web design is like no other.
If you were there, relive the memories; if you couldn't attend, steal a glance at some of what you missed: An Event Apart Minneapolis: the photo pool at...
July 25, 2010
The puzzle of Japanese web design
With respect to clarity, simplicity, and boldness of line, the Japanese have been a thousand years ahead of us in fine art and graphic design. Our best painters learned minimalism, cartooning, and much else from the Japanese during the "Orientalism" period of the late 19th century. Before that, western fine art was judged in part on its complexity and detail. And our posters and advertisements! Don't ask.
Even the way the Japanese design chopsticks reveals this genius for...
July 24, 2010
UI Design Framework for Web Designers
Vincent (no last name given) has designed a beautiful, extremely useful, feature-rich interface design framework for web designers who create their initial design mock-ups in Adobe Illustrator. And it's free for personal or commercial use (credit link required).
The set includes:
GUI library – Hundreds of vector elements for interface design
Minimal UI icons set – 260 vector icons for Illustrator
Styles library – 200 styles to apply in Illustrator
I'd pay cash money for the...
July 22, 2010
Thursday Links
HTML5 audio and video WordPress plugin lets you embed media for native playback in supported browsers; content degrades gracefully in unsupported browsers.10 Tips for Designing Mobile Websites. Great stuff.The downside of free fonts.Flipboard, superhot new "social iPad magazine," will be powered by semantic data.Nick Usborne: "Why I don't much like the phrase, 'content marketing.'"JK Rowling may allow digital Harry Potter books.We all have movie star issues now. Reputation...
HTML5 and CSS3 virtual classes
IF YOU'RE BONING UP on HTML5 and CSS3, you'll want to consider two remarkable learning experiences taking place live on the web this summer:
Learn HTML5 with John AllsoppHere is a great educational opportunity that's also an amazing value. Experience eight structured sessions, two live Q&A sessions, private discussion forum, practical exercises and more, from one of the world's best and most experienced teachers of standards-based design. All for just US $9.95. That is not a...
July 19, 2010
Episode 13: Voices That Matter
Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles.
All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but this week's guest is especially special. Michael J. Nolan (@mikaln) is the acquisitions editor who "discovered" me, and who has brought to light (or should I say brought to print) more web leaders with distinctive voices and visions than just about anyone out there.
Michael w...
July 15, 2010
HTML5 For Web Designers Sells Out
The first printing of Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out.
For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it's done pretty well:
The book sold 1,000 copies during the first hour of pre-sales.
It sold 5,000 copies during the first 24 hours of pre-sales.
The first printing sold out within two months.
Haven't ordered yours yet, and now they're sold out? Not to worry: a second printing is in the works; orders will ship the week of July 26.
So...Type@Cooper
Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, will offer a Certificate Program in Typeface Design.
More information about this remarkable program is available at coopertype.org.
The gorgeous typefaces used on the Coopertype website are FB Franklin Web (Benton Sans) and Farnham, both by Nick Sherman of Brooklyn and Font Bureau.
