Author archive

The least honest statement Cory Doctorow has ever made    (2010.01.26)

“I don’t pretend that I have all the answers”

Unsinkable luxury liner seeks skipper    (2010.01.23)

SEGD is hiring a new boss. Could it be the “signage” organization’s first competent hire?

Ink-stained wretches    (2010.01.23)

What happened at Ink Canada’s Band Practice

Designers as functional illiterates    (2010.01.22)

Natalia Ilyin: ‘The reason that designers have only a feeble grip on that chair at the table is not because design is not respected, it is because most designers cannot write’

‘[E]very book that is being published now depends on something that is in Twitter’    (2010.01.22)

Mike Shatzkin is the latest to opine on the future of the book. And guess what: Everything that works for O’Reilly naturally will not work for you

Republic of Description    (2010.01.20)

The Trailer Park Boys did their own captioning. Now they work for Republic of Doyle. And then there’s the description track

The Michael Surtees Coding Horror Marathon continues    (2010.01.19)

Another ill-coded Web site from the loveliest Web designer with the worst coding chops, Michael Surtees

Jonathan Ive: Print the legend    (2010.01.18)

Jonathan Ive drives a DB7, not a Rolls or Bentley. But how might he defend his choice of the latter?

Too white! Too strong!    (2010.01.15)

Mark McGwire liked hitting the ball really fucking hard and far. But what does a white lesbian think about a gay-sports site?