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Recent Reading

Have been out and about these past few weeks and am catching up on some reading / viewing over the weekend ... here's what I'll be diving into:

• Article on writing for the web

This is a topic that I'm getting more and more interested in, and having founc the fabulous website of Brain Traffic the other day, I was clicking around the subject a little more. It was also a point that Wilson Miner made at the recent Build Conference in Belfast. "When hiring a designer - hire the one who can write" - is an old saw, but none the less valid for that.

• Mood Boards for Designers

Another interesting recent topic. A couple of weeks ago I attended a one day training given by Paul Boag - a mood board evangelist, if you like - and for the first time took the prospect of mood boards seriously. And now, in one of those serendipitous moments, the good people at Forty Agency have put together this little video.

Which reminds me, Viget also produced a couple of recent articles on them too:

Lastly, this wonderfully typeset web-book 'Dive into HTML5'. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what it is - but it looks wonderful and what I've read so far seems an extremely useful primer (and more) on HTML5. There's a printed book you can pre-order too.

• Dive into HTML5

The typography really is exquisite - and made the more noteworthy because I believe they're using the recently used Type Kit to serve up accessible local fonts.

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