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With respect to clarity, simplicity, and boldness of line, the Japanese have been a thousand years ahead of us in fine art and graphic design. Our best painters learned minimalism, cartooning, and much else from the Japanese during the “Orientalism” period of the late 19th century. Before that, western fine art was judged in part [...]

Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but this week’s guest is especially special. Michael J. Nolan (@mikaln) is the acquisitions editor who “discovered” me, and who has [...]

The first printing of Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out. For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it’s done pretty well: The book sold 1,000 copies during the first hour of pre-sales. It sold 5,000 copies during the first 24 hours of pre-sales. The first printing sold [...]

Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites:
Prefix or Posthack
by ERIC MEYER
Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius [...]

Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code.
Being so good at both design and development that you could easily earn a fine living doing just one of them is still [...]

The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version.
The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version.
Read the article that started it all. Coming soon as a book by Mr Ethan Marcotte from A Book Apart. (The current A Book Apart book, Mr Jeremy Keith’s [...]

Sviluppare Siti Con Gli Standard Web: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition, Italian translation.
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In Issue 307 of A List Apart for people who make websites:
Web Fonts at the Crossing
by Richard Fink
Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink summarizes the latest news in web fonts, examining formats, rules, licenses, and tools. He creates a checklist for evaluating font hosting and obfuscation [...]

And I’m off on a mini road trip to Penn State and its annual web conference, where I’ll be honored to deliver the opening keynote on standards-based web design, from 1452 to the present.
The Penn State Web 2010 Conference (@PSUWebConf) takes place Monday and Tuesday, June 7 and 8, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference [...]

Thanks, Mr Sippey!
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