Culture Archive

Vote For Me to Speak @SxSW

SXSW Panel Picker I want to spread the good word of Web typography again to the fine folks attending South By South West (SxSW) at the 2011 event, but I need your help. The first round of selection is (literarily) a popularity contest based on a thumbs up or down...
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Win a ticket to the CSS Summit!

•••THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED••• It's been a crazy busy few weeks for me as I finish up my new book CSS3 Visual Quickstart for Peachpit, but I'm really excited that in just over a week I'll be presenting at the online event of the year for CSS: The CSS Summit. The...
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What Kind of Conductor are You?

I'm back from my whilrwind tour of Berlin and London, and still trying to process the great big bolus of knowledge I aquired during my travels. My own sessions went well, and I'll be sharing more about those later. For now, you can view some of the photos I took...
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Arriving in Europe

One thing I was dreading about this trip was the Jet lag. In my past visits to Europe, one of the most agonizing miseries I remember all three times was the unbearable fatigue I felt the first few days as my body got used to the lack of sleep. This...
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DEVO Focus Group Testing the Future at SXSW

I was privileged to participated in the DEVO Live focus group at SXSW this year, where I learned a lot about the rigorous of user research testing. If you look closly, I'm at the edge of the frame when the camera pans all the way to the left, wearing my...
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Shame on You Apple: A Musical Odyssey

Most of my friends think of me as an unabashed Apple fanboy who drools over Steve Jobs' every word. Truth-to-tell—although I’m a great fan of Apple’s products and design philosophy—many of their policies leave me chilled or outraged. I was reminded of this recently while I stood watching the band Stricken...
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Sketchnotes for FWT

Thanks to Mike Rohde for making these great "sketchnotes" of my lecture at SXSW and the Web Typography dinner afterward at the Athenian Grill . For more of Mike's great SXSW sketchnotes, visit his SXSW Interactive 2010 Flickr pages. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sketchnotes from Fluid Web Typography."][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"...
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Meeting Bruce

I was watching Andrew Keen speak at SXSW Sunday. He’s the author of The Cult of the Amateur—a book that could be subtitled “everything Jason does is evil and destroying the fabric of American culture,” so I was not exactly an unbiased audience member. It was a surprisingly small room...
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Q&A with Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice

Few Web pundits stir-up as much debate as Jakob Nielsen. His theories on Web usability are sacrosanct to some and anathema to others. For my own part, I've at times had to strongly criticize his conclusions at one moment while vociferously defending his theories the next. Indeed, my first book...
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Glorious Dawn

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