conferences
- An Event Apart redesigned
There’s a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the HTML 5 DOCTYPE used and validating against it; the validator.w3.org and htmlhelp.com validators can’t do this yet. Eric chose HTML [...]
- Web Design World
Boston bound.
- An Event Apart Chicago sells out
An Event Apart Chicago, the final AEA event of 2008, has sold out.
- Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?
For all the brand directors, creative directors, Jungian analysts, and print designers, one rather significant specimen of the profession is missing.
- The lessons of September 11, 2002
On September 11, 2002, I found myself in a place as strange as Vegas. I was there to speak at a web conference. They must have gotten a good deal on the rooms, it being the first anniversary of the attacks….
- Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco
Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.
- In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are…
An iPod Classic containing 8624 “songs” (I like music) and 46 “movies.” Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A Night at the Opera, Helvetica, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Lost in Translation, North by Northwest, Rushmore, Spirited Away, Stardust Memories, Stranger Than [...]
- Pick a Panel
The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world’s biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of hundreds submitted, will actually be presented to the public. A few potential panels feature Happy Cog personnel…
- What happened here
This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has seen everything from drug withdrawal to the first stirrings of childbirth. Happiness, anguish, farting and honeymoons. Everything. Everything but death.
- AEA Boston 2008 session notes
Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.