Heading for Web Directions
Tomorrow will see me making the long journey south to Sydney, Australia to speak at what will be my third Web Directions conference. Although the prospect of so many hours confined to an aircraft seat is again a little daunting, I'm looking forward to what (if previous years are anything to go by) will be an amazing event.
Being invited to speak at any conference is an honour and a privilege and every event that I have spoken at holds special memories. The friendliness of the Australian audience and the organisers, Sydney itself and the no small fact that it is such a damn long way down makes Web Directions very special. This year I'm helping to pretend that this is a work trip by doing three things.
Workshop | Transcending CSS: For A Beautiful Web
There is a packed and varied workshop schedule during the two days before this year's conference. On Wednesday September 26th, Blue Flavor's Brian Fling will be presenting Mobile web design and development and my Web Directions North partner and Transcending CSS's technical editor Aaron Gustafson will be presenting Progressive enhancement with JavaScript; tough choice.
On Tuesday September 25th I'll be presenting a brand new CSS workshop, Transcending CSS: For A Beautiful Web. Although the title is shared with my book, the content is all new and extends many of the concepts from Transcending CSS. This will be a day packed full of content-out markup, Microformats, CSS positioning trickery and of course a little CSS3.
In this full day workshop, challenge yourself to think differently about creating inspired design for web using meaningful markup and CSS. This workshop will be packed full of visual inspiration, backed up by practical techniques for creating amazing work for the web.
This workshop is already very well subscribed, by I'm sure that if you haven't already booked that there may a few places available.
Session: Think Like A Mountain
Presenting last year's opening keynote was a blast and I'm looking forward to speaking this year even more. I'll be presenting another brand new talk,Think Like A Mountain.
Once seen as unsophisticated, childish and of low artistic value, comic-book art and culture has inspired artists and designers for generations and are now are often untapped resource for web design inspiration. In this session Andy Clarke will examine comic book layout, conventions and colour in the context of making inspirational designs for today’s web.
I've had tremendous fun putting Think Like A Mountain together (title taken from Paul Chadwick's Concrete series) and I hope that everyone attending enjoys it too.
A very special announcement
After Think Like A Mountain I will be announcing something that I am very proud and excited to be a part of. No details yet, all I'll tease you with is Eleven.
I'll be talking more about the details during my three minutes at WebJam Sydney on September 29th.
Webjam is one big geeky party. Everybody's welcome! Designers, developers, consultants, managers, the list goes on forever... If you're into the web, for work, for play, for something to do, then this is the party for you. And don't forget to bring your friends!
That's it. Nothing more until Web Directions.
Off down-under
So, toothbrush (check), iPod,(check), passport (check), nicotine patches (check).
I'll be arriving in Sydney on Wednesday 19th so if you're in Sydney and you fancy meeting up for a drink, a bite or something else before Web Directions, drop me a line.
Posted on September 16th 2007
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Stuff and Nonsense is a small, but popular web design studio, founded and led by designer and author Andy Clarke. We started back in 1998 and have built a enviable reputation for creating highly effective web sites, ecommerce stores and web applications for our clients.
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