Recent Archives
My (revised) video setup: Canon EOS 7D 8
My video setup: Canon HG10 with 35mm adapter 19
Colosseo: Available March 2010
The Authentic Jobs Twenty Ten promotion
Do what works best for you, not them 22
Join me live on DesignChat tonight
Letterpress poster: Limited quantities for the holidays
Easy dad project: Football/rugby uprights 11
Taking a stand against American Apparel 149
Adjusting to family life with diabetes 66
The “No Retweet Necessary” Contest
On (the undying topic of) copying
On e-book vs. printed book sales, Mobile Web Design, and CSS Mastery 2 13
Inspiring type: Luca Barcellona calligraphy; The Kelmscott Chaucer 4
Reporting in: Self-employment, day four 27
Rejoining the ranks of the self-employed 58
Recent job listings, testimonials, and 100th Kiva loan
The ISO50 Field Guide to Color Management
Upgrading the hard drive and memory in a refurbished 13” MacBook Pro 14
Inspiring type: Libro di M. Giovambattista Palatino 8
Ten things you may not know about me 24
The debate over page zooming vs. text scaling 39
Free download: Good vs. Great Design (summary)
Authentic Jobs: Advice for Staying Gainfully Employed 9
Poster officially on sale, and Kindle+Kiva giveaway
Is it time to move beyond 960? 74
Design Considerations for Touch UI
Drummer Tony Williams: “Good Musicians Copy” 15
Letterpress poster: Pre-ordering now available
Exploring Cufón, a sIFR alternative for font embedding 86
The 5 P’s of Twitter’s runaway success 15
Recent job listings (and job search data) 6
Speaking at HOW Design Conference in June
20 tips for better conference speaking 31
Design’s elusive “final ten percent” 16
Design Review: Your chance to critique me 84
12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5 19
Authentic Jobs promotion: $125 off with code
Framing your letterpress print 19
Letterpress poster on sale today
Job description interestingness at Authentic Jobs
Four resources to consider when starting a project 5
FontBook, “the most complete digital type reference in the world”
“Variety itself as a kind of consistency”
Letterpress poster available December 15ish 12
Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for “creative pause” 50
“Act Well Thy Part” and a letterpress poster update
Veer and Authentic Jobs, sitting in a tree 2
Fifty People, One Question: Restored 20
Authentic Jobs promotion: 30% off with code
Ten 56
Speaking at WordCamp Utah this Saturday
New from Mister Retro: Permanent Press PS filters 14
FAQ: How to convince my boss to let me attend a web conference? 23
Job description interestingness at Authentic Jobs 7
Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament
Linkification 283
Authentic Jobs donates 1% through Kiva.org 5
Excerpted highlights from How Designers Think 14
Signed Limited Edition Letterpress Poster 30
Architecture in Switzerland (Taschen) 9
Mobile Web Design: iPhone 3G discount price
Aaron Cannon’s Web Accessibility Checklist 32
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” 50
Craziest thing you’ve done for user research? 32
Techniques for designing with type characters 24
Swissmiss, SimpleBits, Big Noob join Authentic Jobs
Extensible CSS Interface IV: Testing for Extensibility 29
Extensible CSS Interface III: Adding Ajax Interactivity 18
Extensible CSS Interface II: CSS Selectors & jQuery 39
Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? 154
Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation 67
The Highly Extensible CSS Interface ~ The Series 43
Scrutinizing the XO (OLPC) user experience 6
Randomness 10
Completed mix: Conference break music 13
Music you might hear during breaks at a conference 64
Overcoming blankcanvasphobia 30
Mon sac de choix: STM Alley Case 52
Authentic Jobs promotion: 50% off with code
Unpacking the XO ($100) laptop 42
Challenging the Apple archetype 28
Tweet 22
Noted without comment: iPhone vs. Windows PDA 61
Mobile Web Design: Holiday discount price
The new msnbc.com: Designs we left behind 24
The Accessibility Cookbook: A Recipe for Disaster 12
SharePoint 2007: Pointedly unskinnable 36
Mobile Web Design (in print) now available 16
The highly extensible interface (and workshop) 5
Mobile Web Design in print October 15 17
Mobile web usage nearly equal PC web in Japan 6
Last chance for your chance to win an iPhone 15
Recent job listings + “Job Perks” feature 5
iPhone winner + another iPhone giveaway 13
Now available: Mobile Web Design 66
Download a preview of Mobile Web Design 38
Mobile Web Design, the book: Available August 28 29
iPhone predictions: The right and the dead wrong 11
BumpTop, a new way to visualize your desktop 12
Skinning MS SharePoint with standards 64
Broaden your team’s competence? Consider interns.
Randomness 12
Wait for inspiration to find you
On drinking one’s own Kool-Aid 22
All-day interviews: The interviewer’s perspective? 23
Surviving the all-day tech interview 52
What will design be like in 2025? 46
Farewell to freelancing: Final lessons learned 63
2.7 billion mobile users in context 22
Why iPhone won’t revolutionize the mobile web landscape 69
Remixed 9
Details about my forthcoming mobile book 16
Forget “best”, aim for “worst”?
Noteworthy, Holiday Break edition 11
Blend Lab - Making a killing at Auth Jobs
Noteworthy, December edition 12
Working for the man ain’t no crime, yo 84
Don’t start with the home page 22
Can you summarize your project in one sentence? 21
Natural Born Creativity Killers 13
Noted while absent (continued)
Recent job listings + freelance promo
UI design sessions (and help decide where) 85
The witty works of Hanoch Piven 17
Coming soon: Mobile Web Design, the book 42
Dyson ad: Text as more than just words 14
Review: Sumo Omni bean bag chair
Dashboard widget for Authentic Jobs
Limited-time offer: $99 listings
Nine skills that separate good and great designers 34
Introducing AuthenticJobs.com 31
Optimal width for 1024px resolution? 70
Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer 32
Direct access to mobile web content sans URIs 9
Typefaces no one gets fired for using 62
Search travel info with Kayak.com Mobile 11
Workshop: Designing Elegant CSS Interfaces 23
Uninspired? Unplug yourself 24
Free W3C webinar: “Mobile Web Design”
.net magazine: Fine reading for web developers 1 31
Screen Grab Confab, vol. VI 157
Tee’d up 24
On-screen design: Europe vs. US 43
Where in the world is Carmen Moll? 106
Readers respond: Dealing with “bad” logos 71
Shorn 51
Full-time freelancing: 10 more things in 360 days 38
Fixed: IE 6 min/max-width hack
What designers read to their children 57
First to market, or first to profitability?
Why I passed up the chance to work at Apple 116
Screen Grab Confab, vol. V (Flickr) 18
Conversations with grammarati 70
Two chances to grab a free copy of “CSS Mastery” 409
An argument for “weighted” customer ratings 28
New iLife ‘06 packaging: Hot or not? 101
Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition 60
Full-time freelancing: 10 things learned in 180 days 52
Decorate vs. Communicate: The article you’ll write 32
Final (sorta) draft, CSS Mastery
Mobile Web Design: Tips & Techniques 15
Finally, Mobile Part 3 tomorrow
Employment opportunities: A running tally…
Who writes your error messages? 32
Mobile Web Design: Methods to the Madness 29
Mobile Web Design: State of the Mobile Web 11
On mobile rapid-fire reading 25
Mobile Web Design ~ The Series 17
Out and about as the flames burn out 12
SGC IV: Most Delicious Screen Grab
Screen Grab Confab, vol. IV 259
When humility rears its beautiful head 20
How-to: ‘Giving To Hiram’ masthead 42
Descanso 108
Zaadz and the Evanescent Design Crew 42
Sponsorship opportunity now available
The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection 28
Screen Grab Confab, vol. III 235
More than a mechanic, less than a lawyer
Please, sweat the small stuff 73
Chiasmus and the Poetic Pagination 54
Scouting the programming elite
Stuff that didn’t make the 2004 editorial cut 19
Screen Grab Confab, vol. II 315
Got worn? Don’t miss these brushes
Premium Linkage RSS Feeds now available 10
Authentic Wisdom: Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain 57
The vinyl sketchbook (sans the vinyl) 21
The Plight of the Cereal Bag 35
That Formerly Wicked Aqua Look 48
Authentic Wisdom: Jonathan Linczak 23
Stumped 39
Screen Grab Confab, vol. I 232
Answers to your questions (re: I went postal…)
I went postal and got paid for it 24
Now available in print: Eight things… 12
Eight things I wish I’d known when I started 29
What Authentic Boredom almost was 14
Hiram.edu redesign: Your chance to flog me 70
Five for Six: Bold predictions for the savvy designer 48
Part Four: Expert Guest Gala 22
Part Three: Wicked Third-party Software 21
Part Two: Using Photoshop’s Native Filters 25
Part One: The Indispensable Tool Trio 28
That Wicked Worn Look ~ The Series 27
Nawlins, the forum bomb, and Design Eye 11
Straight from the source’s mouth 14
No, there was no four-minute barrier 2
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 05/06
Stellar screenshots in print pieces 15
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 04/30
Nodes of design inspiration 19
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 04/23
Firsts 25
The inevitable off-topic banter 2
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 04/15
80/20 and the design blogosphere 29
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 04/09
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 04/02
The world will end at exactly 10:10 13
Forum Topic of the Week ~ 03/26 2
Life, love, and the pretentious blog tagline 6
Old-school Archives
05 March 2004 ~ Culture dictionaries? Fo’ shizzle.
Discover a few dictionaries perfect for searching cultural phrases and contemporary lingo.
02 March 2004 ~ Solving iLife’s ‘puzzling’ imagery
Apple’s amazing iLife puzzle diagram served as the inspiration for a recent catalog design.
20 February 2004 ~ Archived screenshots posted
A collection of dozens popular websites.
19 February 2004 ~ Toughest ‘no’ yet
Why I turned down a columnist position at SitePoint.com.
13 February 2004 ~ Which of these headlines would you ‘fire’?
The release of Mozilla Firefox and the flurry of headlines it spawned.
05 February 2004 ~ Standing out—way out—in a crowd
The now-infamous Spongmonkeys / Quiznos duo explained.
02 February 2004 ~ Albert Einstein + Postcards = 48hourprint.com
The best-kept secret for small, inexpensive print runs.
28 January 2004 ~ All circuits are busy
A sampling what kept me so busy for several weeks straight.
22 January 2004 ~ Sly Forum and The World of Tomorrow
Will the Know-How Exchange revolutionize the way we think about forums?
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standard Solutions A solid round-up of indispensable CSS design techniques by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, and Cameron Moll.
Mobile Web Design A guide to publishing web content beyond the desktop. Tips, methodology, and resources. Now available.
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