- Zeldman to keynote at Museums and the Web 2004
- Museums and the Web 2004, a prestigious international conference about culture and heritage on-line, will be held in Washington DC and Arlington Virginia, USA, between 31 March and 3 April 2004.
- The conference will open with a keynote address by Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog, and will close with a plenary session featuring Peter Samis, of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on “Making Sense of Modern Art at Five.”
- New clients
- Happy Cog welcomes and thanks its newest clients: Amnesty International USA, Crystal Cathedral Ministries, Elwell Associates, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Education System. (More.)
- Amazon.com: Zeldman book high among “Best of 2003”
- November 2003: Amazon has just published its “Best Books of 2003.” Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards hit #7 in Customer’s Picks and #4 in Editor’s Picks. (More)
- A List Apart 3.0
- Unveiled in October 2003, A List Apart 3.0 was a facelift for one of the web design world’s most well-loved sources of essays and tutorials. Details in Projects.
- “Coding for Easier Redesigns” (@ Macromedia.com)
- Happy Cog’s Zeldman penned the lead article for the 17 October 2003 issue of Macromedia’s The Edge Newsletter. Although the words are new, the tune will be familiar to readers of Designing With Web Standards. “Coding for Easier Redesigns” explains how designers can make the transition to structural thinking, thereby saving their readers bandwidth and time, and saving themselves much future labor. See Thinking for more Zeldman articles.
- Lounge 72 Interview
- Design mag Lounge 72 published an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on 14 October 2003. (More interviews)
- Indiana University Keynote
- October 2003: Zeldman delivered the opening keynote address at Indiana University’s WebdevShare, a large annual gathering of mostly dot-edu designers, developers, content and IT specialists. (More public appearances)
- Zeldman does Seattle Show
- July 2003: Zeldman was among the judges of the prestigious Seattle Show awards. Winners and details to be announced 6 November.
- Ultrashock Interview
- July 2003: Craig Grannell of Ultrashock interviews Jeffrey Zeldman about art, inspiration, and designing with web standards. (More interviews)
- Web Design World Keynote
- July 2003: Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman delivered the keynote address at Thunder Lizard’s Web Design World 2003 Seattle show. (Speaking schedule)
- Antarctica Systems, Inc.
- July 2003: Happy Cog recently completed the first phase of a design and usability analysis for Antarctica Systems, Inc. Founded in 1999 by search engine pioneer and XML co-author Tim Bray, Antarctica is a leader in the emerging field of information visualization software. For more about the category and Antarctica’s place within it, see “Grokking the Infoviz” in the 19 June 2003 edition of The Economist Magazine.
- Designing With Web Standards sells out
- July 2003: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards was released 15 May 2003; the first printing sold out in mid-June 2003. A second printing (first reprint) shipped in late June 2003, and a third printing is in the works.
- Clear Channel Entertainment
- July 2003: Happy Cog recently completed the first phase of a multi-tiered design, branding, and usability study for our client Clear Channel Entertainment, a leading promoter of live concerts and theatrical events.
- MTM II Interview
- Part Two of A Conversation With Jeffrey Zeldman covers “Zeldman’s career leading up to the web, online storytelling, his tools-of-the-trade and survivor guilt, as well as his most popular creations, A List Apart and zeldman.com.”
- Since1968 interview
- June 2003: Web application developer and computer book author Marc A. Garrett interviews Zeldman about Designing With Web Standards.
- In the (DMX)Zone
- June 2003: “We were interested in enhancing our ability to design and in simplifying our jobs.” Bruce Lawson of DMXZone interviews Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog Studios about peace, love, and Designing With Web Standards.
- Meet the Makers interviews Happy Cog’s Zeldman
- June 2003: Meet the Makers interviews Jeffrey Zeldman about designing with web standards and the book of the same name. The in-depth, Rolling-Stone-style conversation covers the book’s genesis, rationale, and approach to its multiple audiences. More importantly, the interview makes the business case for adopting standards, and discusses how designers and developers can persuade clients and managers to hop on board. More interviews »
- Book Pre-launch
- April 2003: Designing With Web Standards by Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.
- “Zeldman clearly exposes how web design got stuck in the last century and shows you the way out. By implementing his techniques, you’ll learn to design pages not just for Internet Explorer but for today’s modern browsers and tomorrow’s Internet as well.” – Håkon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera Software and co-architect of CSS.
- Redesign contest winners
- March 2003: Winners of the WThRemix competition have been announced.
- Site Launch : i3Forum
- January 2003: Launched 30 January 2003, i3Forum “is a celebration of inspiration, innovation, and influence. For details, see Projects, and click on the little astronaut. »
- Interview: SXSW Tech Report
- November 2002: “Jeffrey Zeldman is not Obsolete.” An interview with Hugh Forrest, chair, SXSW Interactive Festival. More interviews. »
- Site Launch: Fox Searchlight Pictures
- October 2002: Fox Searchlight Pictures is a leading distributor of independent films including One Hour Photo, The Good Girl, Brown Sugar, The Ice Storm, and Boys Don’t Cry. Designed and produced by Hillman Curtis Inc. and Happy Cog Studios, the film company’s flagship site provides cinemaphiles with extensive, insightful content by people who make and love movies. Designed for ease of use, ease of reading, and easy updating and maintenance, the site loads quickly, even over dialup. Launched 29 October 2002.
- Zeldman does Boston, NYC
- In November 2002, Zeldman’s World Tour includes appearances in New York City and Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- 6 November: Zeldman and Eric Meyer will discuss web standards at Meet The Makers, NYC. Attendance is free to web professionals who request VIP tickets (first come, first served). Additional MTM guests include Hillman Curtis and the architects behind Zagat.com and Excite.com.
- 18–21 November: Zeldman will speak on web standards and accessibility at Thunder Lizard’s Web Design World Boston. Happy Cog fans can save $200 off the cost of registration. See World Tour for more. »
- Zeldman keynotes in September
- September 2002: Beginning 9 September, Happy Cog founder and creative chief Jeffrey Zeldman will deliver a keynote address and supporting lectures at Builder 2002 Las Vegas. Come 17 September, he’ll head to Altanta to lead a design track for the Georgia Web Developer conference. See World Tour for conference details. »
- Zeldman: “99.9% of websites are obsolete”
- September 2002: In a special issue devoted to web standards, Digital Web Magazine publishes Zeldman’s “99.9% of Websites are Obsolete,” excerpted from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Web Standards, to be published by New Riders in 2003. More of Happy Cog’s Thinking About the Web is available elsewhere on this site. »
- Communication Arts Interactive Winners Announced
- September 2002: Communication Arts has posted the winners of its Eighth Annual Interactive Competition along with Quicktime movies of the jurors’s comments. Happy Cog founder and creative chief Jeffrey Zeldman was among the jurors. In this Quicktime movie he discusses a “unity of vision” that made some sites stand out above all others.
- Happy Cog teams with Hillman Curtis for Fox Searchlight
- August 2002: Happy Cog has partnered with Hillman Curtis to redesign the flagship site of Fox Searchlight Pictures, a leading producer/distributor of independent films. Hillman Curtis is widely respected for its new media and broadcast work on behalf of Adobe, Intel, MTV, and other high profile accounts. Its founder (also, not coincidentally, named Hillman Curtis) is the author of two best-selling design books from New Riders. Fox Searchlight is the first collaboration between the two New York-based web agencies. See the Press Release for more. »
- Zeldman to keynote at Web Design World, Boston
- August 2002: Happy Cog’s Zeldman will deliver a keynote address on web standards, lead additional sessions, and participate in the closing day panel at Web Design World 2002, Boston, 18–21 November. Details in World Tour. »
- Happy Cog, Frankensite, net rare fish
- July 2002: Happy Cog and Frankensite have re-teamed to design and produce a commerce site and publishing system for The Marine Center, a leading distributor of rare, net-collected fish and corals. Frankensite creates publishing systems and enterprise solutions for companies including the Venture Reporter Network, Intel, and Business Week. Its Tech-Engine Career Network drives over two hundred career centers, including O’Reilly’s XML.com and Perl.com. Founder Brian Alvey also produces and hosts Meet the Makers, an events series for creative people in a technical world.
- Wired News interviews Zeldman on WaSP relaunch
- 10 June 2002: Wired News interviews Happy Cog’s Zeldman in an article on the relaunch of The Web Standards Project, a group Zeldman co-founded with Glenn Davis and George Olsen in 1998. See Interviews for more press coverage and Projects for more about The Web Standards Project, which seeks to increase the usability and accessibility of websites through the power of open standards.
- Zeldman to keynote at Web Design World Seattle
- July 2002: Happy Cog founder and chief creative Zeldman will deliver a keynote address on designing and building with web standards at Thunder Lizard’s Web Design World 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA, 21–24 July. See our spankin’ new World Tour department for details on this and other lectures and appearances, including Builder (Las Vegas) and Georgia Web Developer (Atlanta).
- btldesign enlists Happy Cog
- May 2002: btldesign, a New York City-based branding and interactive agency, has enlisted Happy Cog to consult in the redesign and implementation of its Lucent Technologies client’s corporate Intranet portal.
- Site Launch, Clear Channel Entertainment
- May 2002: getAccess is a member site for people who love live entertainment. Designed by Happy Cog for Clear Channel, the service is customized by region and partner. See Projects for a complete writeup.
- Clear Channel Entertainment Taps Happy Cog
- January 2002: Clear Channel Entertainment has selected Happy Cog to design brand identities and sites for its products and to consult in the development of its web presences. Several Happy Cog-designed Clear Channel sites are now in development.
- Site Launch, Warner Bros.
- 27 November 2001: The Charlotte Gray website, a co–production of Happy Cog and NotLimitedNYC for Warner Bros. Pictures in association with FilmFour and Senator Film. The site was selected as a Yahoo Daily Pick for 27 December 2001. See our Projects section for details about this unusually in-depth movie site.
- You’ve Got Ads: America Online Taps Cog
- November 2001: In connection with its Charlotte Gray project for Warner Bros., Happy Cog was asked to design and develop an advertising effort to run on the America Online service.
- Site Launch, New York Public Library
- 30 October 2001: NYPL Style Guide, produced in cooperation with the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library, is part of a larger effort to bring accessibility and standards compliance to The Library’s vast site.
- The Style Guide also makes a dandy tutorial for any web designer or developer working with XHTML and CSS. See Projects for more information about this and other Happy Cog projects commissioned by The New York Public Library.
- Site Launch, New York Public Library
- 28 May 2001: Click On @ The Library, Narrowing the Digital Divide
- Promoting the Library’s efforts to bring computers and the web to all New Yorkers, regardless of income. The project was so successful that within weeks of the launch, the Library’s free classes were filled to capacity. See the Happy Cog Projects section for more.
- Site Launch (independent)
- 17 May 2001: Independents Day, Celebrating the Independent Web. For details, see the Publications page.
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