Too many websites look alike. They follow familiar patterns, use similar layouts, and leave little impression once you’ve moved on.
Drawing on over thirty years of experience, In Standout Designs for the Web, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.
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Drawing on over thirty years of experience, In Standout Designs for the Web, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.
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Get three of Andy’s industry influencing books—Art Direction for the Web, Hardboiled Web Design, and Transcending CSS Revisited—in one best-value bundle.
Essential reading
In this popular book, I explore the work of influential art directors to understand it and learn how to apply that knowledge to the web. Published in 2019.
Fifth Anniversary Edition
Incredibly well received, in 2015 I updated its content for an all new Fifth Anniversary Edition.
Industry defining
In 2019 it was time to revisit Transcending CSS to examine the approaches we took and the tools we used at the start of the web standards revolution. Read free online or buy the e-book.
Frustrated by how designers were being held back by the notion that their designs should look the same in even the least capable browsers.
This book is one of the best in modern day web development. Hardboiled Web Design isn’t about making your website pretty or pixel perfect, but about making it stand the test of time while using tomorrow’s standards today.
Five Simple Steps 2010 • ISBN: 978-1907828003 • 420 pages.
No longer available • Reviews on Goodreads.
I wrote Transcending CSS, my first full-length book, in 2006, because I wanted to explain the possibilities of CSS and HTML in ways which would appeal to creative web professionals. I had no idea about the impact this book would have on my career and the careers of many other people. It was translated into eight languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
I’ve read other reviews of this book that describe it as career-changing and that really was true in my case. I’ve spent the past four months reading anything and everything I can about CSS because the doors that Andy Clarke opens in Transcending CSS are just too cool to close.
New Riders Press 2006 • ISBN-10: 0321410971 • ISBN-13: 978-0321410979
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