GATHER. A Graphic Novel by Anton Peck — Kickstarter
Anton is a fantastic artist. Therefore, this graphic novel will be fantastic. Therefore, you should back the hell out of it.
Anton is a fantastic artist. Therefore, this graphic novel will be fantastic. Therefore, you should back the hell out of it.
This really is a ridiculously smart way of keeping third-party videos scalable in responsive layouts. I’ve just implemented it on this year’s dConstruct site.
This post by Jason Fried is three years old but it’s more relevant than ever.
What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit out of the old guys? What ever happened to that?
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In which twelve drawings of historical drawing machines are drawn by a computer numerical controlled machine.
Bruce Sterling writes about the New Aesthetic in an article that’s half manifesto and half critique.
Grab a cup of tea or hit your “read it later” bookmarklet of choice for this one—it’s a lengthy but worthwhile read.
Samantha does an excellent job of explaining how useful style tiles can be for visual design and iteration.
Press play on each video, sit back, and relax.
Matt has transcribed the notes from his excellent Webstock talk. I highly recommend giving this a read.
I really enjoyed Matt’s talk from Webstock. I know some people thought it might be a bit of a downer but I actually found it very inspiring.
Pictures from the photo booth at Jeffrey’s Hall of Fame celebration party on the last night of South by Southwest.
Bobbie’s new journalism project is up and running on Kickstarter. Get in there!
A terrific article from Wilto detailing the thinking that went into the Boston Globe’s responsive image techniques and how browser pre-caching is now throwing a spanner in the works.
This is the talk I gave at An Event Apart through 2010. It’s all about interaction design with some examples from Huffduffer.
Wallow in nerd nostalgia and experience the Proustian rush of rebooting old operating systems.
Mashing up Angry Birds and spreadsheets to better visualise project time-tracking.
Add this one to your Instapaper/Readability queue: the behind-the-scenes story of the train wreck that was the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
There’s a good point buried in this tirade.
Here’s a more positive spin: with this much horseshit, there’s gotta be a horse in there somewhere.
The slides from my presentation at this year’s An Event Apart. Such a fantastic event …it was an honour to be on the roster.
Ballardian astronaut paintings by Scott Listfield.
James Bridle in untrue art exposé: read all about it!
The comments are simply epic.
A superb piece of writing from Jeffrey, scorching the screen with righteous anger. THIS. IS. IMPORTANT!
SOPA approaches the piracy problem with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole internet in gasoline.
This looks truly wonderful: like a hardware version of “if this, then that.”
The perfect Christmas gift for the web geek in your life: get a discount of 30% when you buy all six books apart.
A damning indictment on the lack of any upgrade path for most Android phones. It’s disgusting that most customers have contracts that are longer than the life cycle of their phone’s operating system (and crucially for me; their browser).
Aral takes the words right out of my mouth. This is pretty much exactly how I feel about Dart.
This is quite beautiful. An interactive piece that allows you to dig through the ruins of Geocities like an archeologist.
Such wanton destruction! I’ll never forgive those twunts at Yahoo.
Fuckers.
I like this ad-hoc approach to staging one-night-only internet art shows:
Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night.
This is may just be the best thing on the internet about data visualisation and statistics. And sex.
I had a lovely conversation at the Update after-party with Georgie about the infographic dress she was wearing. It’s quite lovely.
Stewart Brand wrote this twelve years ago: it’s more relevant than ever in today’s cloud-worshipping climate.
I’d like to think that it’s ironic that I’m linking to The Wayback Machine because the original URL for this essay is dead. But it isn’t ironic, it’s horrific.
Humour through noun permutations. The results are all-too believable.
So true, it hurts.
What a wonderful idea! Create a zoetrope from an animated .gif.
The story of the particle windchime—it turns subatomic particle collisions into sound—created at Science Hack Day San Francisco.
I want one! An ambient signifier (in lamp form) to let you know when the ISS is flying overhead. Geekgasm!
Brendan’s latest product looks like it’ll be a thing of beauty. But he needs help getting it funded on Kickstarter. If you like taking pictures with your iPhone, I suggest you back this project.
Rejoice! For Kevin Cornell’s new book is available to you through the power of print on demand. I’ve ordered mine. And should you.
Luke’s notes from my talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
A peek behind the scenes of the printing of the Korean version of HTML5 For Web Designers.
Homunculi in a landscape of food.
A wonderfully made video on the story of A Book Apart. Mandy should have her own show.
What could be better than of Anton’s 100 robots? How about one of Anton’s (even bigger) 100 monsters! You can pre-order now.
Anton’s personal account of An Event Apart in Boston. It really was a very special event.
Digital preservation in the art world.
Luke’s notes from my talk about long-term thinking and online preservation at An Event Apart in Boston.
A great way of supporting the best podcast on the planet: a limited set of prints by five designers, illustrators and artists. Grab yours quick before they’re all gone.
The humble animated .gif is turning into an art form.
A great piece about the changing nature of content ownership and distribution. And now I share it with you, validating its central premise.
You can now borrow HTML5 For Web Designers through the Open Library. Nice one, George!
Present day Austin Kleon gives ten pieces of advices to past Austin Kleon.
A quick chat with me in the hallway after my talk in Seattle.
Apparently I’m the anti- David Cameron. I’ll take that.
The premise of this work is simple: I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. I ask them if they will pose for a photograph together with the stipulation that they must touch each other in some manner. Frequently, I instruct or coach the subjects how to touch. Just as often, I let their tentative physical exploration play out before my camera with no interference.
Adrian Hon’s Kickstarter project has already reached its goal. I can’t wait for the podcasting to start.
Life isn’t always happy and jolly in The Future.
If you speak Flemish, you might enjoy this article based on a chat I had with a Belgium journalist.
If you don’t speak Flemish, well, just move along.
Here’s a gem from the past: a thoroughly fascinating and gripping interview with Paul Baran by Stewart Brand. It’s thrilling stuff—I got goosebumps.
I love watching an artist at work. Right after watching the accompanying video, I ordered a robot postcard from Anton.
Revisiting and recreating old family photos.
Honor gives a tour of sound from space.
The intriguing tale of a fictional archivist, storing past visions of the future in a storage facility that acts as a space ark.
He has put money in the bank which will pay for the space well beyond his lifetime. Each year he collects technological predictions that had been made for that year and conserves the ones that didn’t come true in the form of 35mm slides. The ship itself consists of a refrigeration unit to help preserve the slides, a slide projector and light box in case these technologies have become extinct by the time of its recovery, and a system to get power from the outside. In an annual ritual on April 11th Walker adds another box to the mission.
Frank Chimero is funding his book through Kickstarter. Definitely a worthwhile investment.
Melville’s masterpiece, translated into Japanese emoticons. All 6438 sentences. Made possible with Kickstarter and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Past predictions of the future.
Science, suspense, humour and horror combined into one truly superbly-written article.
An examination into the legibility of labels on online mapping services.
Generative music with YouTube.
A neat little experiment in replicating classic 80s albums using CSS.
A low-tech version of Flickr's shapefiles: stopping people and asking "excuse me, what area is this?"
An Event Apart, The Musical!
This is far too realistic for comfort.
A fantastically detailed look by Michael at the evolution of the design of Chewbacca.
A beautiful SVG visualisation (with source code) of the Rattle team's experience of dConstruct 2010.
Cute illustration of different content types in HTML (though, personally, I would put sectioning content — section, article, nav, aside — into their own group).
Erin is writing about content strategy for A Book Apart. This is good news for everyone.
A great post from the frontline of markup. This is just a taste of the confusion to come.
"Tuna Casserole Ingredients: 1 large casserole dish Place the casserole dish in a cold oven. Place a chair facing the oven and sit in it forever. Think about how hungry you are. When night falls, do not turn on the light."
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
A lovely bit of unboxing porn.
An excellent argument in favour of vendor prefixes in CSS, from Eric.
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
Mike Stenhouse has graphed civilisation longevity: a nice bit of long zoom perspective.
Beautiful mapping visualisations of crime data.
Suw's Kickstarter-funded piece of puzzle fiction sounds very intriguing. Let's make it a reality.
Use Gowalla? Want a copy of my book? Jeffrey has the details.
"...after the late Thag Simmons." No, really. It's a proper paleontological term now.
I had a lot of fun chatting with Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman about HTML5 for Web Designers. Now you can watch the video or listen to the podcast.
A beautiful site for long-form content, also available in dead tree format.
I'll be delivering half of A Day Apart in Washington DC in September — the HTML5 half. So... there's that.
Bruce gives a good explanation of the difference between section and article in HTML5.
Here's a Kickstarter project worth supporting: fund a documentary on crafting typefaces.
The most beautiful piece of letterpress art from Cameron thus far.
A thoroughly well-researched and data-heavy blog post ...complete with interactive charts!
Coming soon to a bookshelf near you.
If you want to see this book published (and you should), why not pledge a little something to the cause?
Wonderful calligraphy — something we don't make much use of on the web.
I don't agree with everything in these vignettes but they make for an good, thought-provoking read.
A beautifully designed location-based web magazine.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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