This is the stock look of my 2021 Sprinter van front console area: If it’s not obvious, there’s no great place for a phone. You’ve got the cup holders. Those are actually sorta worka…

Though I know the answer already, my mind sometimes wanders and then wonders if the world is ever going to feel normal again. And the answer is always "nope." There's simply too much ch…

I’m observing summer Fridays here at KDO again this year, which means I (mostly) won’t be posting here on Fridays. If past years are any guide, this doesn’t actually have too much o…

I really am a big fan of having an archive of what happened throughout all the years of an event. Speakers, slides, videos, additional coverage and s…

Hello, hello, Grand Beings. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🌵 As a longtime fan of the old Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in…

Almost every agency owner asks me this at some point: “Do I have to post more on social media to grow my agency?” No, you don’t. In fact, I discourage it for most agency owners. The instinct is…

Optical sizing is a method of setting type that feels appropriate to its context: more readable in long prose and more expressive at scale — a way of getting back qualities tha…

Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design. The post Remembrance of zeldman.coms past appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents…

I recently made some stickers for Loud Room and it turned out to be a bit of a journey trying out different vendors. I’m always asking people for recommendations, so I wanted to share my own for sti…

My friend John Allsopp built an open live feed for AI agents at AI Engineer Melbourne, so I sent my agent, Ellis, in my place. It recaps each talk, then does the part I wanted to see: its own question…

In this article, I will tell you how I learned that AI (artificial intelligence) can quietly change team behaviour. How organisations start missing important signals, and what we changed once we reali…

We’ve been prepping my childhood home for an estate sale taking place in a few weeks, and my primary task has been getting my remaining unsalable old junk out of there. A lot of it has turned out…

The Session existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week. But The Session as it is today—a community website where everyone can add tunes�…

Teleportation! Gliding suitcases! Magic wishes! Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred chatted with Lou Rosenfeld about how Sentient Design applies “productive magic” to imagin…

Read the book, Typographic Firsts “Brutal” is such a nasty, albeit seductive, word. A quick visit to my desktop Oxford dictionary confirms that the adjective “brutal” is, etymologicall…