Notes

Collected bits and pieces I’ve noticed this month.

I enjoyed reading Jeffrey Zeldman ruminate on two beautiful things that grew from the seminal A List Apart web publication – An Event Apart and A Book Apart, both now, sadly, shuttered.
I learned a tremendous amount about web design and development, as well as adjacent topics from A List Apart. Not only was it wonderfully designed, it published a wide range of topics and shaped how I approach design for the web and also design in general. I’m very grateful for that. I was never able to attend An Event Apart, unfortunately, but I was able to acquire books put out by A Book Apart and have a number of them on my bookshelf.

But! All is not lost! Au contraire, A Book Apart gave the publishing rights back to the authors and the books have been slowly republished in various formats and one of those is Pricing Design, by Dan Mall, resurrected as a beautifully designed website.

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With my to-do list(s) approaching bankruptcy territory, this has been following me around for some days now – “What would it mean to be done for the day?”.
via Austin Kleon

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Some mandatory “here’s a number of things” lists – “77 Facts that Blew Our Minds” from The Atlantic, “52 Things I Learned in 2024” from Kent Hendricks, “52 Things I Learned in 2024” from Tom Whitwell.
via kottke.org

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One thing I learned was what the “Send in the Clowns” means. From Wikipedia:
“but it's not supposed to be a circus [...] [I]t's a theatre reference meaning “if the show isn't going well, let's send in the clowns"; in other words, "let's do the jokes.””

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(Re)watching Flaked, this house in Venice, CA, home of photographer Philip Dixon, caught my eye. I love it.

The wonderfully weird estate that belonged to late designer Pierre Cardin and is known as Le Palais Bulles or 'the bubble palace', sits on a mountainside in Cannes overlooking the Mediterranean. Complete with (at least) two pools and an amphitheater it's on the market with a £300 million price tag.
via Home Designing