Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : democracy

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What is Art Direction (No. 9): A provocative poster deconstructed. How art direction communicates wordlessly, and how it differs from design. Disabled veterans, Gap ads, and James Gandolfini.
The Polling Place Photo Project: A nationwide experiment in citizen journalism.

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An Event Apart: The design conference for people who make websites. Two big, two-day shows left! San Francisco (August 18–19) and Chicago (October 13–14).

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…
Death: Ava, who is nearly four, is not so bothered about Daddy’s monster toe, but great-grandma’s passing still troubles her.
Zing: The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.
The Survey for People Who Make Websites: Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. Please take the survey and encourage your friends and colleagues who make websites to do likewise.
Lower East Side Lit: Monday, July 28, at 7:00 PM, in the company of my fellow field testers, I’ll be giving a reading at Coudal Partners’s Field Tested Books Live. Join us on the rooftop of the Delancey at 168 Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002 (map). Admission is free.
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