A transmission from the deep south.
An advertorial publication from McSweeney’s editor-at-large John Warner and The Morning News founding editor Andrew Womack that presents paid advertisements for books that pass muster with John and his team of readers. Sharp design by Jason Santa Maria.
A selection of creative commons-licensed, base CSS templates from Russ Maschmeyer to get your web typography off to a great start. I’ll be contributing here as soon as I can.
Update: Russ has added my “Editorial” flavor to the site.
You must check out this completely awesome exploration of what’s possible with modern web typography, with installations by Frank Chimero, Jason Santa Maria, and Naz Hamid.
The project (codenamed Operation Condor) was unveiled today as Lost World’s Fairs, to celebrate the release of IE9 and its support for WOFF webfonts (pity about the rest). It’s a tour de force of texture, colour and bravura web technique. Hat’s off.
The feature pages on Grain & Gram are remarkable.
Matthew Buchanan and I are down in Wellington for Full Code Press, a 24-hour competition to build a website for a non-profit organisation. This year the New Zealand team are up against the formidable Australians, and for the first time an all-star U.S. team. The competition kicks off in an hour — watch the action as it unfolds!
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein, just in time for the madness that will be FullCodePress this weekend. Wish us luck. (via Meagan Fisher)
Build Conference identity by Jez Burrows. Stellar lineup too.
Ethan Marcotte combines fluid grids, flexible images and media queries to demonstrate how best to design for “the ebb and flow of things”. His final example adapts from a single-column layout optimised for handheld devices through to a two-column layout with three alternative navigation styles based upon the width of the browser’s viewport.
Neven Mrgan’s new blog:
My goal is to collect examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It’s an itch I need scratched for myself, and something I expect others will find useful too.
There are other books about HTML5, and there will be many more. … But this is a book for you — you who create web content, who mark up web pages for sense and semantics, and who design accessible interfaces and experiences.
— Jeffrey Zeldman introduces the first publication from his new imprint, A Book Apart. HTML5 for Web Designers, written by Jeremy Keith and designed by co-founder Jason Santa Maria, is “your user guide to HTML5. Its goal … is to shed clear light on a tricky subject, and do it fast, so you can get back to work”. Ordered.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
