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Rework Book Review

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Rework by 37signals is a book telling you how to run your business. More specifically, it’s a book about how they got started in business and the choices they made that resulted in them becoming extremely successful. It’s around fours years old now, so I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve been wanting to read it for a while now and have only just had the opportunity.

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37signals make online products, the most famous of which is Basecamp. Most people in the design industry will have heard of Basecamp, but if you haven’t it’s one of the best project management tools out there, used by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

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Review: Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

It’ll come as no surprise to those who have been following the releases of this practical series by A Book Apart, that this is a really great little book. And by ‘little’ I mean exactly that. (It only took about 3 hours from start to finish, and I’m definitely not the world’s fastest reader!). But that’s by no means a reflection on the quality of the content.

Responsive Web Design is a very concise and to-the-point book on how to apply front end development techniques in order to make a single website adapt to be more easily viewed at multiple screen resolutions, and on multiple mobile and desktop platforms.

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

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Flash on the Beach 2010 - A Round Up

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Better late than never, we’ve finally come around to finding time to tell you about our experience at Flash on the Beach 2010, which took place between the 26th and 29th September. Now, we don’t do much Flash here at What!? Creative, but based our experience last year of being completely inspired by a massively diverse range of speakers, we decided to give it another go and make it two years running…

So, without further redo, here’s a round up of all the best bits from FOTB 2010:

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HTML5 for Designers: Book Review

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

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HTML5 for Designers

Why buy a book on HTML5 when the web is full of free information? I hear you say… Well, HTML5 for Designers isn’t any old collection of HTML5 pointers! It’s written by Jeremy Keith and the foreword is by Jeffrey Zeldman, who certainly know what they’re talking about. So you can be sure it’s going to be full of interesting, high quality, and clearly explained information. And it doesn’t disappoint.

I actually pre-ordered the book before reading anything about it. Just before it’s release my TweetDeck was overflowing with hype, so I thought why not? And at just $18 it’s a bargain! If you include postage to the UK the total costs is around £18 - That’s £18 very well spent. I’ll be honest though, when it arrived in the post I was a little disappointed with the size of the book. But of course size doesn’t matter! I soon realised that the fact it’s small is actually one of the best bits.
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LogoDesignLove: Book Review

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Ok, so it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally managed to find time to read my copy of LogoDesignLove by David Airey… and I have to say, it was a really great read. I think that anyone in the creative industry could learn from it, whether you are a logo designer, web or graphic designer, copywriter, photographer, whatever, there is something for everyone to take away to make them better at what they do.

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The first three chapters which fall under the title ‘The Importance of Brand Identity’ are obviously completely focussed on branding and logo design, however, chapters four onwards could actually be applied to many creative industries and this is why I think that it’s an essential read for anyone starting up in business. In fact, I’d even go as far as to say that even the most established freelancers could gain from it…

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