The fabulous web designer Jason Santa Maria on the value of keeping a sketchbook. (Santa Maria usually has a different design for each entry in his blog, so click through and see the fun.) Some months old, but here are some interesting thoughts from then-NEA-head Dana Gioia and Sunil Iyengar on what we know and, more important, what we don't know about reading online. I wish I could see this BBC documentary on Why Reading Matters. A lovely little piece In Defense of Readers by a web designer. Designing beautiful, even pleasant, text for online reading is a tough job. An interesting Wired interview with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: the Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Text Patterns
April 22, 2009
Well, Jason Santa Maria is definitely someone I'll take seriously. I discovered from his portfolio that he designed Kongregate, which is far and away the best site in the Internet for Flash games.
This may sound like a joke, but it's not.