Bio
Jason designed the first web based magazine, Computer Mediated Communications, in 1994 and has been at the forefront of digital innovation ever since.
He wrote the first book for designers on Cascading Style Sheets in 1996.
He was the lead designer on WebMD when it launched in 1998.
He created the first interactive comic book reader in 2006.
He wrote the first book on modern web typography in 2009.
Jason is now the co-founder and lead creative at The CranfordTeague Group, which specializes in digital communication strategies. He is also working on Invisible Jets, a start-up company that wants to revolutionize how we trust each other online.
Jason is finishing work on a new book, The NEW Web Typography, with Stephon Boss (Spring ’16) and writes regularly for Creative Bloq, but has written for several other print and online publications over the last 20 years. He’s lived in London off and on, Charlotte, Atlanta, Durham, and DC (not necessarily in that order) with his 3 cats, 2 kids, but just the one wife.
Contact Jason
Email: jason@cranfordteague.com
Twitter: @jasonspeaking
Blog: http://www.jasonspeaking.com
Phone: +01.541.600.4422
Books
Published
- CSS3 Visual Quickstart, 6th edition
- Fluid Web Typograpy: A Guide
- Speaking In Styles: A CSS Primer for Web Designers
- CSS3 Visual Quickstart, 5th edition
- CSS, DHTML, & Ajax: Visual Quickstart Guide, 4th
- DHTML & CSS Advanced
Out of Print
- Photoshop at Your Fingertips, 2nd edition
- Photoshop at Your Fingertips
- Final Cut Express Essentials
- SVG for Web Designers
- Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking, 2nd Edition
- Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking
- DHTML & CSS Visual QuickStart, 3rd edition
- DHTML & CSS Visual QuickStart, 2nd edition
- DHTML Visual Quickstart
- How to program HTML Frames: Interface Design and Javascript
Articles
Highlights
- Can good UX help end genocide?
- 10 pro tips to get people to trust your site
- The designer’s guide to special characters
- Design 101 for Educators: 5 Simple Typography Tips
- Design 101 for Educators: Choose Your Fonts Carefully
- The GeekDads Guide to SXSW 2014
- 10 Things Science Fiction Promised Us That DIDN’T Happen in 2013
- A GeekDad Review of Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
- Responsive Webfont Icons
- Make It So Takes User Interface Design Into the Final Frontier
Archives
- CreativeBloq »
- George Lucas Foundation Edutpoia »
- GeekDad »
- Wired GeekDad »
- Webdesigner Depot
- Ask The Web Designer
- 10 Last-minute Gifts for Web Designers
- Choosing the Right Color Value
- Expand Your Font Repertoire
- Pixels or Ems in Your Web Designs
- To CSS Reset or Not to CSS Reset
- HTML 5 NOW!
- Big Things Ahead for HTML 5
- Everyone is a Web Designer
- Frames are Dead, Long Live Iframes!
- Q: If I ask ten different web designers what pixel dimensions to use for web pages and whether to make them fixed-width or “stretchy,” I get ten different answers. What’s your answer, and why?
- Why Can’t I Use Any Font I Want in My Web Designs?
- Ask me, ask me, ask me
- InformIT
- Macworld Magazine
- Macworld | First Look: iWeb ‘08
- Macworld | Review: iWeb ‘08
- Macworld | Review: Journler 2.5.2
- Macworld | Review: Safari 3.0.4
- Macworld | Review: Cosmic Blobs 1.1
- Macworld | Review: OmniPlan 1.0
- Macworld | Review: Merlin 1.3.11
- Macworld | Review: Freeway 4 Pro
- Macworld | Review: Mac FlipAlbum 3.0
- Macworld | Review: BumperCar 1.0
- Macworld | Review: FTP Clients
- Macworld | Review: Shiira 2.2
- Macworld | Reviews: Encyclopedia Software
- Macworld | Review: Merlin 2.0.3
- Macworld | Reviews: Web browsers for kids
- Macworld | Review: InspireData
- Macworld | Review:Freeway 4 Pro
- DMXZone
- The Independent, London
- The backlash against Flash
- What flavour is your HTML?
- IE5 for the Mac sets the standard
- The colourful way to aid navigation
- How to keep them clicking
- Make it look good on Windows or Mac
- The year that the browser wars finally ended
- How to get search engines to notice you
- Search for the right engine
- Is your site lost in cyberspace?
- The software that we will never see
- What makes a good Web architect? I’m glad you asked
- A resolution to the worst of nightmares
- It’s not just what you get on the Web – it’s how you get there