Our writing
We promote creative, accessible design by writing in books including Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke and online in publications including 24 Ways, A List Apart, Digital Web and Informit.
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Underpants Over My Trousers
With Christmas approaching faster than a speeding bullet, this is the perfect time for you to think about that last minute present to buy for the web geek in your life. If you’re stuck for ideas for that special someone, forget about that svelte iPhone case carved from solid mahogany and head instead to your nearest comic-book shop and pick up a selection of comics or graphic novels.Published by 24 ways on December 14 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: Across The Universe
It is easy to think that visual design for the web is about creating attractive visuals, but design can be much more than that. Good design evokes feelings and emotions in people who visit a web site or use a web application. When you create the right mood, your visitors are far more likely to want to interact with your site and with your company.Published by Peachpit on July 13 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: We Can Work It Out
By looking outside the web for inspiration, and combining this with effective use of modern CSS techniques, even the most humble of meaningful form markup can be styled into something that looks amazing.
Published by Peachpit on May 14 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: Yellow Submarine
As a designer working on the web, one of the questions that I get asked over and over again by other designers is
where do you find inspiration for the colour palettes that you use on your sites?
Published by Peachpit on April 27 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: You Never Give Me Your Money
I have to confess. I'm a terrible person to go shopping with. I'm fine when I'm shopping for myself or flipping through some vinyl in a record shop. But take me shopping for clothes and I instantly become Mr. Grumpy.
Published by Peachpit on March 09 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: A Day In The Life
Looking at ways that you can breathe new life into perhaps one of the most taken for granted, overlooked elements in web design: sidebars.
Published by Peachpit on February 16 2007.
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Creating Inspired Design: I Am The Walrus
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus.I want to design a web site like I Am The Walrus. Yes, please, I do.
Published by Peachpit on January 19 2007.
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A Message To You Rudy
CSS production notes, places your page production notes in one convenient place within an XHTML document and uses nothing more than meaningful markup and CSS.
Published by 24 ways on December 15 2006.
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Z's not dead baby, Z's not dead
The basics of CSS z-index and how it can be used to create designs which break out of the box.
Published by 24 ways on December 16 2005.
Would you like us to write for your printed or online publication
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke is available from Amazon UK and Amazon.com. If you would like us to write for your printed or online publication, please contact us. Or for book authoring enquiries, please contact our literary agent David Fugate, at Launch Books.
See us speak
We promote creative, accessible design at conferences and workshops worldwide.
