If you work on the web, you probably already know all about South by Southwest. If you don’t, it’s a super-mega media festival that consists of 3 back-to-back conferences: music, film & interactive. The interactive portion is often touted as the mecca of web design & interactive media conferences. I…
This is me when I was just eighteen years old. I look at this picture and see a nerdy kid with a goofy grin. It was my senior year in high school and I was checking out the University of Central Florida with my parents a few weeks after getting…
Last week I had the opportunity to speak to a Media Arts class at USC that is using The Principles of Beautiful Web Design as a textbook. While I’ve had the opportunity to talk to college classes several times and I’ve heard from professors around the country that are using…
As I mentioned in my previous book review, a sequel to one of my favorite web design books of all time was published in late December and I didn’t even know. Curt Cloninger’s Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground is a book I’ve been patiently…
There was a time long ago in a galaxy far, far away when I was very proud of my strange and quirky personal space on the web. It was a testing ground for new techniques, a sandbox for experimental ideas, and most importantly, it was my own. I didn’t really…
I really, really enjoyed seeing Web design education take the spotlight in Issue No. 276 of A List Apart. It’s a topic that I feel strongly about and one that doesn’t get nearly enough attention from those of us working in the industry. While I’ve had the pleasure of meeting…
As a web design author, I often get asked what books I recommend. This of course depends on who is asking and what they want to learn, but one book I often pass along is Curt Cloninger’s original* Fresh Styles for Web Designers from 2001. The specific design examples are…
I enjoy enhancing webpages with Javascript as much as anyone, but there is a lot to be said for making things function just as well with plain ole’ HTML. Recently, I was marking up a design that included a box on the homepage that toggled between 2 states. I could…
Just a quick post to let you all know I’ve moved my RSS feed to Feedburner. Please take a moment to swap out the URL in your reader with http://feeds.feedburner.com/jasongraphix If you don’t do this, you will always get to see this lovely post as my latest. That is, until…
For those of you who have asked: Yes! I’m observing No-Shave November again this year. This is only the 2nd consecutive November that I’ve gone without shaving, but the tradition started back in college. I know I had a “no-shave” beard when I proposed to my wife on Thanksgiving of 2001 and that was neither the first nor that last time I went without shaving for the month of November. Anyway, hair I grow again…