Press Room
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Nov 30, 2011
Why Emotional Design Works on the Web in Forbes Magazine
Forbes’ magazine looks at why some companies’ websites are more memorable than others, with a shoutout to Aarron Walter’s Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. “Walter’s approach is direct, rigorous, at times scientific and filled with practical insight and humor.” (Anthony Wing Kosner)
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Nov 30, 2011
Interview with A Book Apart co-founder Mandy Brown on The Great Discontent
Our editor and co-founder, Mandy Brown, sat down with The Great Discontent for an interview on design, editing, being creative with words, and more. In addition to her work on A Book Apart, Mandy serves as a contributing editor for A List Apart and Communications Director for Typekit. She also writes about the reading experience on A Working Library.
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Nov 17, 2011
Jeffrey Zeldman to be inducted to SXSW Hall of Fame
Our publisher and web design pioneer, Jeffrey Zeldman, will be the first inductee to the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame in 2012. In addition to co-founding A Book Apart, Zeldman is publisher of A List Apart, founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog, and author of the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards. Congratulations, Jeffrey!
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Nov 14, 2011
Responsive Design in the Financial Times
The Financial Times discusses how a major hotel chain designed its way out of the “desktop vs. mobile” mentality by incorporating responsive design, “an approach that proposes that the design of a website should respond to the user’s behaviour and environment, based on screen size, platform and orientation,” as the paper puts it. Ethan Marcotte, author of the best-selling book, helps the business reader understand how responsive design works.
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Nov 14, 2011
A Book Apart scores big in .net Top 25 Web Design Books listing
A Book Apart has published six books since its founding in 2010; four of them have found their way into .net Magazine’s Top 25 Books for Web Designers and Developers feature. The winning books were Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte (ranked #2 out of 25), CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski, and The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane. The list was compiled by consulting with leading designers, developers, and creative directors. Congratulations, Erin, Luke, Dan, and Ethan!