Archive
Apt’s links for August 10th
Where’s your innovation?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos – News of the (partially depressing) outcome of the “RedStripe” innovation project article linked to a couple of weeks back. [Via BookTwo]
cityofsound: Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun) – Critique on the Guardian redesign. [...]
Published: August 11, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 8th
Subtraction: The Framework Formally Known as Prints – Interview with the guy who did the blueprint grid framework (see below)
Blueprint typographical grid system – Ah, grids and web sites. The joy.
Published: August 9, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 6th through August 7th
Text Message (SMS) Marketing Provider Comparison – Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog – Useful roundup of SMS providers. Thanks Alex [fiennes.org]
5th Estate · Subjects – Subject Heat Map
Published: August 8, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 5th
Me.dium – Crazy insane tool for firefox / flock that shows you current users of the site you’re on – and allows you to stalk them further.
Cover Browser – Sweet Lord. It’s librarything for jackets. Or something for something else. But it’s aim seems to be to collect together a directory of every piece of [...]
Published: August 6, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 4th
Guardian: Jackets required: why cover art matters – This will run and run
Forbes.com – Interview with Jane Friedman on the future of publishing
Published: August 5, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 3rd
The BBCs Fifteen Web Principles (Tomski.com – Tom Loosemore’s Blog) – Eminently sensible. Please adopt.
Adrants : The Long Tail Has Destroyed Mass Media – “Your brand isn’t what you say it is. It’s what Google says it is.” Notes from a Chris Anderson talk in Chicago about how mass media was an “anomaly”
Cicatriz Clothing – [...]
Published: August 4, 2007. Read more →
It’s all about the content, stupid
This precedes a long posting on the massive – fundamental – importance of hman beings and hand-written content for web sites, but I just thought I’d share three links from the superb A List Apart website about writing for the web. [Via Alex]
Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
Better Writing Through Design
In fact, the whole dang ALA archive [...]
Published: August 3, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 2nd
CR Blog ยป Designs on your phone bill – “Japanese student Maki Miura’s rather charming reinterpretation of the ubiquitous mobile phone bill.”
A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing – Monday morning began precisely as Monday mornings are not supposed to begin: with an argumentative prospective client standing in my office (sans appointment) telling me [...]
Spot the difference: Betty Binns and Aptstudio.com
It has been pointed out to me that the late, great Betty Binns’ (described by Google as “a prominent graphic designer in the publishing industry”) 20-year old classic on typography, Better Type, has ripped off our new homepage design. That was quick. But we’re OK with it – that’s a by-product of our accelerated culture [...]
Published: August 2, 2007. Read more →
New Site
Just a quick one for those of you reading in RSS. We’ve recently updated our site – visually more than anything, but including some changes under the hood – and welcome any feedback. More changes will follow when this has bedded in, but just to say do come for a visit if you haven’t already. [...]