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Editorially 11 Feb 2013 | 11:35 pm
I came to design via words: a love of reading and writing inspired an attention to typography and layout, the elements that make reading solid, in Bringhurst’s parlance. But while the last few years h...
Starts 1 Jun 2012 | 11:13 pm
I've seen many people—those I knew well, and those I knew only from afar—venture out to start their own thing over the years. For many of them, the impetus for that move was discontent: the feeling th...
Deploy 27 Feb 2012 | 10:24 pm
This is the third and final in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Contents issue No. 1. Read the first and second. I worked for many years on textbooks—big books with several authors e...
Markup 12 Dec 2011 | 11:56 pm
This is the second in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Issue No. 1 of Contents. Read the first. In the second part of my Contents article, I argued content people (editors in particu...
Represent 6 Dec 2011 | 07:10 am
This is the first in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Issue No. 1 of Contents. In the first part of my essay in Contents, I argued that to be a publisher today you must belong to a c...
Change 7 Jun 2011 | 10:45 pm
I am a former print designer, and I am stubborn. When I took my first tentative steps toward designing for the web, I developed a loathing of designs that flexed and retracted with the browser. On wit...
On the news 4 Apr 2011 | 09:15 pm
I grew up reading the Washington Post. I started with the funny pages, then gradually explored the local and national news, eventually settling in to a steady diet of politics—a fascination no doubt e...
A web designed for reading 16 Mar 2011 | 05:21 am
This post originally appeared on the Readability blog. As advertising has moved from print to web, it has not followed a single path. The classifieds have gone from the back pages of your local paper...
Three 8 Mar 2011 | 11:26 pm
The basic premise of content strategy is in some ways so incontrovertible as to be hardly worth a fuss: content is hard work, and as with all work, you can always do it better. Coming as I do from the...
Modes of writing 25 Jan 2011 | 11:06 pm
I’ve written before about how the word "ebook" marks our as yet tentative embrace of the new medium. Ebooks are a kind of new incunabula—prototypes for the next phase of reading device that has yet to...
