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Category Archives: books
Just My Type
I have recently finished reading Just My Type, which I got for Christmas. In it, Simon Garfield explores some of the history of familiar and not-so-familiar typefaces. I was quite surprised how old some of them are, and how modern … Continue reading
Posted in books, css, design, typography
Tagged book, chewy, daily dragon, dancing script, design, development, fontdiner swanky, fonts, Going, google web fonts, just my type, lobster, orbitron, philosopher, reenie beanie, the rights future, typography
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A Hard Act To Follow
I read the news yesterday that Eoin Colfer will be writing another installment of the 5-volume Hitch-Hikers’ Guide To The Galaxy trilogy. This set off alarm bells in my head, even though the project is going ahead with the full … Continue reading
Posted in books
Tagged "douglas adams" "eoin colfer" "hitch-hikers guide to th
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@media Session 1
Designing Our Way Through Data Jeff Veen Jeff’s opening keynote for @media was very thought provoking, as usual. He spoke about data visualisation and how diagrams can often show us things more quickly and more intuitively than a table of … Continue reading
Posted in at media, books, conferences, design, inspiration, usability
Tagged atmedia08, charts, data, jeff veen, london web week, lww08, maps, visualisation
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Further Reading
There was a dangerously-tempting bookstall at d.Construct the other week, and I found myself buying two books which have been on my To Be Read list for a while: Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and AJAX – Christian Heilmann, Apress … Continue reading
Posted in books, technology
Tagged ajax, andy budd, blog design, books, bulletproof, christian heilmann, dan cederholm, javascript, reading
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Non-Designers' Tips
The lastest issue of .Net magazine (#154) has an article by Andy Rutledge, in which complains that not enough is done to inspire good design in people who do not come from a design background. And I agree with him. … Continue reading
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Tagged andy rutledge, books, design, reading, robin williams, typography
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