Dan Rubin’s SuperfluousBanter

I’ve been inspired by Douglas Bowman’s submission to the CSS Zen Garden — Golden Mean is an excellent example of what can be done with CSS and some good design skills (not that the other selections are terrible, quite the contrary; however, Douglas’ entry is absolutely stunning in my opinion).
I had been holding off putting a design together […]

I try to stay away from simply publishing lists, however the following are causing me great enjoyment (personal and professional) at the moment:

Florida Road Kill: A Novel by Tim Dorsey
Web Site Redesigns by Darcy Dinucci
The Designer and the Grid by Julia Thrift, Lucien E. Roberts
Web Redesign: Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

I’ve now officially entered into the pattern-creation craze. Tasteful pixel patterns are making a comback as web site backgrounds (Todd Dominey’s What Do I Know? is one good example), and I’m almost finished with a new project that uses a nice pattern for the background, so I figured it was time I created some of […]

Zeldman is getting married to Carrie.
I wish you two all the best, and look forward to many good things to come from this union of brilliant souls.
Congrats Big Z!

Those of you who visit this site daily will have noticed a few sporadic changes over the last week. This site (if you didn’t realize it already) is being redesigned in public (polite nod to Zeldman), and as such you may need to reload the page to see everything correctly. You might even need to […]