Author archive

Stupid code pays    (2009.07.28)

Tumblrs have stupid code and attract stupid – and smart – writers. It’s the stupid ones who make off with the loot

‘[T]he show never quite feels corporate’    (2009.07.27)

Dépêche Mode, graphic-design band

The inalienable rights of Ezra Levant    (2009.07.27)

Free speech, yes; but summary executions in “war zone[s],” also yes

Will Moz blow it on captioning?    (2009.07.27)

Solving the four-fifths of the problem you think is the entire problem means you haven’t solved the problem

Tag soup, now at a discount    (2009.07.24)

Shortcovers will convert your book to ePub. For pennies a byte! Perhaps you get what you paid for

‘Unwebbable’    (2009.07.21)

Today my article, long in gestation, appears at A List Apart: “Unwebbable” examines how not every document can be folded and mutilated into a “Web page.”

Happy anniversary, Design Observer!    (2009.07.20)

It’s Design Observer’s 2,149th day without a print stylesheet!

Yellow IST    (2009.07.20)

‘Do Good Design’    (2009.07.17)

Do Good Design by David Berman lays on the ethics a bit thick, I think