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WebrockerPainting With The Web - Matthias Ott
This. This. This. This is what initially brought me to the early web; the improvisation, the bugs, the happy accidents the intersection of exciting new technology, not yet understood, and the excitement of actually seeing in the browser directly if what I tweaked in the html gibberish works or not… This naive playfulness matured, of…
Pratical ethics for the modern web designer - Morten Rand-Hendriksen
In this talk for An Event Apart on 20th July 2020, Morten lays down a path toward an explicit ethics for web workers, by anchoring the work we do in the capabilities we manipulate in the people we design for, and providing an ethical foundation to stand on when making the decisions that build the…
Der kleine Webrocker möchte aus dem Marken- und Urheberbällebad abgeholt werden
Von einem der auszog, um sich einen Spreadshirt-Shop zu machen und dann gleich mal mit Anlauf in die Absurditäten des (deutschen?) Markenrechts und teil-automatisierter Plattformentscheidungen rein rannte. Wie aufmerksame Leser meiner Bloghütte vielleicht wissen, mache ich nebem meinem Tages-Shop als Website-Flüsterer auch noch so sporadisches Design- und Illustrationsgedöns. Im Zuge dessen haben sich über die…
Artists' Materials and Architects' Supplies - F.W. Devoe & Co., 1914
Ich habe ja eine große Schwäche für alles, was mit Grafik zu tun hat. Stifte, Lineale, Schablonen, Messscheiben, Papier, Pinsel - in einem Schreibwaren- oder Künstlerbedarfsladen darf man mich nicht alleine lassen, sonst werden alle Taschen vollgestopft :-) Hier ist Zeichenbedarfporno aus dem Jahr 1914: Ein Katalog der damals schon ältesten Zeichenbedarf-Ladens der Welt (nach…
A quick note to my past-self
If there’s one thing that now-me would urgently tell past-me, when starting this whole self-employed business, it is this: Beware of „cost“ focussed clients, seek the „investment“ minded ones. Adapt your communication accordingly. If your services are seen only as „cost“, no fruitful and growing relation will come out of it - and with those…
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? – Cal Newport, The New Yorker
A nice article about the IndieWeb, published on a paywalled site ("you have three articles left this month") ??♂️. I find it a bit too focussed on servers and social media platforms, but with the right angle about 'engineered adictiveness'.
Take back your web - Tantek Çelik @ Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019
Watch this. Understand this. For quite a while now I really think we are at a crucial point in the history of the web.
Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019
For the ninth year I attended this great small conference about Web, Design and going beyond. Here are some notes and thoughts. Maybe I polish it later, but I want to get this out of my head. These moments stuck with me - which does not mean that any talk that is not mentioned here…
The Power of Metaphor - Mike Hill @Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019
This talk yesterday kind of illustrated the frame for many of the stories that were told by the talks that followed. The circle of stories, the archetypes, the whole 'going from the known to the unknown', the 'old self / new self' transformation, the dragon's den… there's a lot of that to be found in…