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Me and Jason
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24 ways: Making Modular Layout Systems
Jason Santa Maria details the CSS framework he built to craft the beautiful layouts he uses on his blog. It happens to be very similar to what I’ve been using for sometime, and also similar to how Blueprint CSS handles layout. I’m glad to see more people getting on board with this kind of thing. CSS should be used to build layout systems, not individual layouts.
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Jason Santa Maria: Oh, Snap
Jason talks briefly about the Polariod SX-70 which so many of my friends have these days. Every time I see one one of these cameras, it makes me happy. The industrial design of these things is just so perfect. And, Jason’s blog post does it justice with a great design of its own.
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Jason Santa Maria: Explain Yourself
A terrific post by Stan on the role of graphic design on the web. What do you think? Is web design graphic design? Get to Jason’s site and join the discussion.
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School of Visual Arts NYC Announces New MFA in Interaction Design
Wow. This is awesome. Liz Danzico and Steven Heller have put together a MFA program with a faculty that includes the likes of Christopher Fahey, David Womack, Jason Santa Maria, Karen McGrane, Khoi Vinh, Paul Ford, Matt Owens, Rachel Abrams, Jeffrey Zeldman, and more. The program will launch in the Fall of 2009. Only one question: where were you guys in 1994?!
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Respect panel
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New York Times: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?
This NYT analysis of the sites of both remaining Democratic presidential candidates is clever and fairly astute, even if it kind of rams the Mac vs. PC angle down your throat. And, designers in our community may recognize one of the guys interviewed for the piece.
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Jason Santa Maria | Tell Ya What I Want
I found this piece by Jason interesting because it parallels how I see myself. People who have worked with me full-time know that I can be a bitch. I can be very opinionated, strong-willed, and unwilling to relent when I am passionate about something — and I often am, when it comes to work. But, at the same time, I’ve extremely laid back in my personal life. I’m often indecisive — and not because I’m too scared to speak up, but because I sincerely don’t care. I’m usually down for doing whatever after-hours, and can usually make a good time out of just about any situation. It’s interesting how we can be so different from work to personal. Jason says:
VisitWhat’s interesting here is how different I usually am in my non-work life. I’ve never been the guy who asked for a specific slice of pizza while ordering at a pizzeria, or piped up about riding hump in a friend’s car, not necessarily because I like being walked all over, but because I typically don’t care. I often make due with the hand I’m dealt.
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Jason, seconds after turning 29.
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Kevin (and Stan)
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Eating at The Pink Door
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Stan
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Jason Santa Maria: Archival Quality
Stan wonders if we are doing a good enough job of archiving the design work being done in these early years of the web. The answer is almost certainly no. But solving the problem is tricky — I don’t have any great anwers. But, it’s great that Jason has started the conversation.
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Stan
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Stan
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Jason and Andy
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Jason and Andy
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Stanley
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Jason taking a picture of me taking a picture of Jason
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Jason taking a picture of me taking a picture of Jason
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AIGA redesign
Wow, Happy Cog has been getting it done the last few months, huh? Most recently, they’ve redesigned the site for the American Institute of Graphic Arts, which is about as prestigious a client as you can get, if you’re a designer. Jason Santa Maria is responsible for the graphic design, Dan Cederholm took care of the markup and CSS, and Zeldman was the creative director.
I feel like this move could start to help AIGA have more cachet within the web design community. They’re a great body, but they’ve always come off as not particularly interested in the web — this move shows that view may be changing.
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National Gazette
The design is a collab by Cameron Moll and Jason Santa Maria, and overall, it looks great. Nice to see more whitespace and better typography being used on a newspaper site.
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Jason Santa Maria: Happy Cog Redesign
Jason, Dan, and the rest of the Cogs redesign the site for the Zeldman-run studio. Jason writes about the process. Predictably, some jackass insists upon berating them publicly over a single minor validation error (which has since been fixed) instead of focusing on the clever navigation, the great painting by Kevin Cornell, the well-written copy, and the lovely CSS typography. People seriously need a get a life, man.
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Stan on the iPhone: A Plea for the Fat-Fingered
Jason suggests a more spaced-out version o the virtual keyboard when you rotate the screen to landscape mode. Seems painfully obvious, and yet I didn’t think of it. Let’s hope Apple at least considers this.
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Stan on CS3 icons: “What a Mess”
Jason calls the new icons an “utter design failure.” I don’t really agree. I think learning that Photoshop is a blue “PS” is easier than learning it’s a feather on a white box. But maybe that’s just me. Great post and great comments, anyhow. Lots to think about here.
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El Boton - the limited edition web designer series.
Khoi’s HelFUCKINGVetica one rules. I want one.
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New SXSW podcasts online
SXSW continues to roll out podcasts of the sessions from March’s interactive festival. Two of my favorites, “Holistic Web Design,” and “Traditional Design and New Technology” are now available. Both are don’t-miss presentations.
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Jason Santa Maria | Pretty Ugly
Stan speaks up on “un-design,” saying more-or-less what I said, only much more elegantly.
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Under The Loupe: #5 Visual Thinking
Jason Santa Maria continue his series on visual design with this terrific entry on a spefici brainstorming process he calls “Visual Thinking.”
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Cameron and Stan: National Gazette Logo Design
I sort of prefer the all-blackletter (with Cameron’s reworked “N”), but the final version is great, nonetheless. Jason’s ligs really make it. I’ll be very interesting to me, as a news website designer, to see where they go with the Gazette!
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Bryan, Eris, Stan, and Ryan
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Bryan, Eris, Stan, and Ryan
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Myself and JSM
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Myself and JSM
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Breakfast at the Hampton
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Breakfast at the Hampton
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The Internet's Jason Santa Maria
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The Internet's Jason Santa Maria
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Stan
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Stan
Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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