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.
Tags: art
A List Apart: Articles: Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video
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.
The next generation bends over - (37signals)
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?
Form letter template for acquired startups — Gist
Just copy and paste.
Dear soon-to-be-former user…
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MachineDrawing DrawingMachines : Pablo Garcia
In which twelve drawings of historical drawing machines are drawn by a computer numerical controlled machine.
An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
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.
A List Apart: Articles: Style Tiles and How They Work
Samantha does an excellent job of explaining how useful style tiles can be for visual design and iteration.
L’Eclaireur • subblue
Press play on each video, sit back, and relax.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: My Webstock Talk: Lessons from a 40 year old (now with transcript)
Matt has transcribed the notes from his excellent Webstock talk. I highly recommend giving this a read.
Webstock ‘12: Matt Haughey - Lessons for a 40 year old on Vimeo
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.
Photo Booth - Annie Ray Photo
Pictures from the photo booth at Jeffrey’s Hall of Fame celebration party on the last night of South by Southwest.
MATTER by Matter — Kickstarter
Bobbie’s new journalism project is up and running on Kickstarter. Get in there!
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
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.
Jeremy Keith: Paranormal Interactivity on Vimeo
This is the talk I gave at An Event Apart through 2010. It’s all about interaction design with some examples from Huffduffer.
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems
Wallow in nerd nostalgia and experience the Proustian rush of rebooting old operating systems.
angry, productive birds (tecznotes)
Mashing up Angry Birds and spreadsheets to better visualise project time-tracking.
The Star Wars Holiday Special | magazine | Vanity Fair
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.
yongfook - Design is Horseshit!
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.
Design Principles // Speaker Deck
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.
astronautdinosaur.com
Ballardian astronaut paintings by Scott Listfield.
ART LIES | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
James Bridle in untrue art exposé: read all about it!
The comments are simply epic.
A List Apart: Articles: Say No to SOPA
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.
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter
This looks truly wonderful: like a hardware version of “if this, then that.”
A Book Apart, 2011 Holiday Bundle
The perfect Christmas gift for the web geek in your life: get a discount of 30% when you buy all six books apart.
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
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 Balkan · Google Dart, or ‘how we lost the ECMAScript 4 battle so we decided to create our own language instead’.
Aral takes the words right out of my mouth. This is pretty much exactly how I feel about Dart.
The Deleted City
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.
SPEED SHOW
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.
10 Charts About Sex « OkTrends
This is may just be the best thing on the internet about data visualisation and statistics. And sex.
Making the QR Code InfoDressShe Bytes - Exploring Digital Art, Technology, Design
I had a lovely conversation at the Update after-party with Georgie about the infographic dress she was wearing. It’s quite lovely.
Escaping the Digital Dark Age
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.
Wait, what does your startup do?
Humour through noun permutations. The results are all-too believable.
xkcd: Standards
So true, it hurts.
Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein — Kickstarter
What a wonderful idea! Create a zoetrope from an animated .gif.
An Ear for Science: The Particle Physics Windchime | SLAC News Center
The story of the particle windchime—it turns subatomic particle collisions into sound—created at Science Hack Day San Francisco.
ISS-Notify by Nathan Bergey — Kickstarter
I want one! An ambient signifier (in lamp form) to let you know when the ISS is flying overhead. Geekgasm!
Red Pop - the big red button for your iPhone camera!
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.
“Six-Penny Anthems II” - A classic Bearskinrug Article.
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.
LukeW | An Event Apart: Design Principles
Luke’s notes from my talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
웹디자이너를 위한 HTML5 - a set on Flickr
A peek behind the scenes of the printing of the Korean version of HTML5 For Web Designers.
Christopher Boffoli Photography
Homunculi in a landscape of food.
Customer Stories: A Book Apart | MailChimp
A wonderfully made video on the story of A Book Apart. Mandy should have her own show.
Anton Peck — Adopt a Monster
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.
AEA Boston_2011 (by) Anton Peck (in) Journal
Anton’s personal account of An Event Apart in Boston. It really was a very special event.
Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change | Technology | The Observer
Digital preservation in the art world.
LukeW | An Event Apart: All Our Yesterdays
Luke’s notes from my talk about long-term thinking and online preservation at An Event Apart in Boston.
In Radiolab We Trust
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.
From Me To You
The humble animated .gif is turning into an art form.
A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content
A great piece about the changing nature of content ownership and distribution. And now I share it with you, validating its central premise.
New Titles in Lending Library! « The Open Library Blog
You can now borrow HTML5 For Web Designers through the Open Library. Nice one, George!
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon
Present day Austin Kleon gives ten pieces of advices to past Austin Kleon.
Jeremy Keith Interview: Web Standards and Design Principles at An Event Apart
A quick chat with me in the hallway after my talk in Seattle.
StartUpBritain done better
Apparently I’m the anti- David Cameron. I’ll take that.
Touching Strangers
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.
A History of the Future in 100 Objects | Mssv
Adrian Hon’s Kickstarter project has already reached its goal. I can’t wait for the podcasting to start.
Sad Star Trek
Life isn’t always happy and jolly in The Future.
Digitale data in gevaar! - Datanews.be
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.
Wired 9.03: Founding Father
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.
100 Little Robots (by) Anton Peck (in) Journal
I love watching an artist at work. Right after watching the accompanying video, I ordered a robot postcard from Anton.
BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer
Revisiting and recreating old family photos.
Honor Harger on Lift 11: Geneva
Honor gives a tour of sound from space.
Forever Future | Sascha Pohflepp
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.
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero — Kickstarter
Frank Chimero is funding his book through Kickstarter. Definitely a worthwhile investment.
Emoji Dick
Melville’s masterpiece, translated into Japanese emoticons. All 6438 sentences. Made possible with Kickstarter and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
YouTube - BBC Horizon (1964) with Arthur C. Clarke (Part 1 of 2)
Past predictions of the future.
How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash Survival Guide - Popular Mechanics
Science, suspense, humour and horror combined into one truly superbly-written article.
41Latitude - Google Maps & Label Readability
An examination into the legibility of labels on online mapping services.
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
Generative music with YouTube.
80s ALBUM ART RECREATED IN CSS ALONE | Monkeon | Web Design Leeds
A neat little experiment in replicating classic 80s albums using CSS.
thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
A low-tech version of Flickr's shapefiles: stopping people and asking "excuse me, what area is this?"
An Event Apart News Archive
An Event Apart, The Musical!
Wait, what does your startup do?
This is far too realistic for comfort.
George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay « Binary Bonsai
A fantastically detailed look by Michael at the evolution of the design of Chewbacca.
Did you have a nice day? - Made by Rattle
A beautiful SVG visualisation (with source code) of the Rattle team's experience of dConstruct 2010.
Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck
Cute illustration of different content types in HTML (though, personally, I would put sectioning content — section, article, nav, aside — into their own group).
A Content Book Apart : Incisive.nu
Erin is writing about content strategy for A Book Apart. This is good news for everyone.
Article vs. Section: We've Finally Gone Mad - Opinions - MIX Online
A great post from the frontline of markup. This is just a taste of the confusion to come.
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook
"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."
flickr shapetiles / july 2010
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
Historypin | Home
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
Unboxing A Book Apart - a set on Flickr
A lovely bit of unboxing porn.
A List Apart: Articles: Prefix or Posthack
An excellent argument in favour of vendor prefixes in CSS, from Eric.
Geonames Maps « optional.is/required
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
Rise and Fall
Mike Stenhouse has graphed civilisation longevity: a nice bit of long zoom perspective.
If San Francisco Crime was Elevation | Doug McCune
Beautiful mapping visualisations of crime data.
Argleton: A story of maps, maths and motorways —Kickstarter
Suw's Kickstarter-funded piece of puzzle fiction sounds very intriguing. Let's make it a reality.
Win A Book Apart – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Use Gowalla? Want a copy of my book? Jeffrey has the details.
Geology in Art: The Thagomizer
"...after the late Thag Simmons." No, really. It's a proper paleontological term now.
The Big Web Show 2: HTML5 with Jeremy Keith | 5 by 5
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.
n+1
A beautiful site for long-form content, also available in dead tree format.
An Event Apart News Archive
I'll be delivering half of A Day Apart in Washington DC in September — the HTML5 half. So... there's that.
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : HTML5 articles and sections: what’s the difference?
Bruce gives a good explanation of the difference between section and article in HTML5.
Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century (A documentary) — Kickstarter
Here's a Kickstarter project worth supporting: fund a documentary on crafting typefaces.
Colosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type
The most beautiful piece of letterpress art from Cameron thus far.
The Case For An Older Woman « OkTrends
A thoroughly well-researched and data-heavy blog post ...complete with interactive charts!
Happy Cog Studios: A Book Apart
Coming soon to a bookshelf near you.
Cadence & Slang is a book about interaction design. — Kickstarter
If you want to see this book published (and you should), why not pledge a little something to the cause?
Calligraphy by Nancy Howell
Wonderful calligraphy — something we don't make much use of on the web.
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World
I don't agree with everything in these vignettes but they make for an good, thought-provoking read.
Welcome - The Bold Italic - San Francisco
A beautifully designed location-based web magazine.