How I learned to stop worrying and start blogging again.

A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with Debbie Millman, host of the venerable Design Matters podcast.

Video of my talk from The Walker Art Center last week, as well as some thoughts in retrospect.

Trying on that Tumblr-style content for size.

After being unavailable for four years, Wire & Twine will print a new run of these shirts early in December. Pre-order yours today.

Director Raafi Rivero interviewed me last year to make this video on some of my ideas on design.

A new advertising network for RSS feeds.

The iPad is capable of so much more than what we’re using it for today, and I’m hiring a team to tap into some of that enormous potential.

Why I decided to build a new product business and not a new client services business.

It’s been twelve months since I left The New York Times; here’s a little bit of what I’ve been up to.

I answered a few questions for this recently-launched social list-making site.

How comments on this blog, and everywhere, are changing.

My contribution to Andrew Losowsky’s awesome magazine selection service.

Video from Alissa Walker’s interview with me for Fast Company at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival.

Come out and see me speak at this year’s conference.

A major new release for the WordPress theme I designed and developed with Allan Cole.

Coming to a bookseller near you in December: “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design.”

Some key ideas from my lecture on news media and user experience design, presented last week at FREITAG am Donnerstag in Zurich, Switzerland. Also, full video of the whole talk.

Vote for “Ordering Disorder,” my proposed panel on grids for next year’s South by Southwest Interactive festival.

After a several year hiatus, I’m lucky to be able to rejoin Jim Coudal’s premier ad network.

Come seee me give the annual William A. Dwiggins Lecture in Boston this coming Wednesday.

A not-quite-instant replay of last week’s layer tennis exhibition match between Nicholas “Feltron” Felton and myself.

Tune in Friday as I take on Nicholas Felton in an exhibit match of Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis.

A step by step look at my illustration for Hype Machine’s thirteenth-best band of 2009.

A beautiful, brand new blog theme based on Subtraction.com, designed by Allan Cole and myself.

Come see me speak next Tuesday evening at Galapagos Art Space.

Now open for business: a daily, straight-to-your-inbox newsletter of Subtraction.com blog posts.

Underestimating the importance of RSS in a redesign.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to practically abandoning this blog.

Coming soon: fewer parts of this Web site.

First steps to a new publishing platform.

Looking for a new hosting provider. I think.

A little bit of video for Command-Shift-3.

The thrill of seeing one’s name in print remains undiminished.

Reprints for Hel-Fucking-Vetica and Fear of a Cooper Black Planet are now on sale.

Test prints for my long-awaited second batch of Hel-Fucking-Vetica shirts.

Five clichés I turn to again and again.

Resolved: more personal appearances in my neighborhood next year.

A report from my three speaking appearances this weekend, including slides.

Extra-curricular work for Blue Eyes Magazine.

Places you can find me yapping away this fall.

NPR puts on a good new show, and CBC puts on… me.

Bury bad news on a Friday after the market is closed, right? Illustrate Me is dead.

Sign-up now for the Subtraction.com Newsletter and work at home for big $$$.

A new Message on today’s anniversary, plus a chance to meet one of our illustrators tonight.

Eking out a bit more performance from this creaky old publishing system.

Additional notes about A Brief Message.

A brand new forum for design writing that leaves time for You Tube.

What I did with the painfully slow site search on Subtraction.com.

Attention lazyweb: help me put more messages in your In Box.

Heading out West for An Event Apart.

It’s really difficult to keep it short.

The author as a typographic super-hero.

Liz Danzico’s one-two punch for last month’s archives.

First in a series of F.A.Q.’s: can you use the design of this site for your own purposes?

The meat of the grid presentations I’ve been making recently, now available for download.

How I blew it during one of my SXSW appearances.

Who to favor when designing features.

A new era of short posts, in advance of South by Southwest 2007.

Interrupting this program for a word from your blogger.

Nicholas Blechman catches us up with an illustration for my archives.

Out of my continental mind.

The war on comment spam continues.

Things about me that seem very important right now.

Just under the gun, December’s Illustrate Me goes live.

A puzzler of a piece by Rob Giampietro for November’s Illustrate Me.

Movable Type maintenance in progress here.

It’s no trick: an on-time treat for Illustrate Me fans.

Alissa Walker’s unexpectedly powerful illustration.

Problems publishing this blog that shouldn’t require anyone smarter than me to fix.

An update on tee-shirt-fueled support for Subtraction.com.

Come see me at AIGA Baltimore on Thu, and then go see Jeffrey Zeldman at AIGA New York in Oct.

The August 2006 entry for Illustrate Me owes a debt to youth and talent.

The long-awaited Hel-Fucking-Vetica tee shirts are available to buy!

Look for me in a speaking engagement in Baltimore on 21 Sep.

A free link aliasing utility I built just for you.

An interview with Veerle Pieters on the artwork she created for July’s Illustrate Me.

A sneak peek at a chance to spend some money on Subtraction.com.

An interview with me and Jeffrey Veen conducted by 37signals.

June’s art and an update on the project.

Learning to deal with the sincerest form of flattery from an institution of higher learning.

Wrapping up my appearance and attendance at An Event Apart New York City.

A brand new illustration for all the blog posts I wrote in May.

Looking for input for my talk at An Event Apart New York.

A shockingly large article and photo of me in a Swedish design magazine.

Debuting today: a modest little effort to bring illustration to the Web.

On blogging, changes to the comments policy, and calling special attention to me.

A new links section raises some issues with CSS text control.

For once, I’m not the problem.

Come see me talk about design at this year’s South by Southwest.

An unexpected honor from the Annual Weblog Awards.

Looking back at some design work I did in the mid-nineties.

A quick housekeeping post before I head to Newark International Airport.

Justin Goodlett asked me a whole bunch of tough questions recently.

James Archer grills me on that one big project I worked on recently.

Any publicity is good publicity, right?

New work for my old lady: an identity and Web site for Paragraph, LLC.

A couple of housekeeping notes on Subtraction.com.

A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.

Coming to terms with remarkable similarities which may or may not be intentional.

When I wasn’t looking, someone stole my Web site.

Someone’s ripping off somebody’s design.

Don’t sit there trying to come up with something to blog about unless you have something to blog about.

Recent experiences writing stuff for other people.

The navigation bar that I worked long and hard to perfect, and then gave up on.

Just to prove I’m not just being a jerk, here’s why I.E. gets second-class treatment.

Looking back at an early, abortive attempt at keeping an online journal.

Welcome to Subtraction Version 7.0.

Users viewing Subtraction.com with Internet Explorer will now see a notice that says, effectively, that the site won’t work.

A look at the layout grid behind the version 7.0 redesign.

I’ve finally got version 7.0 of this Web site in a state where it’s practically ready to launched.

Now Christmas is past, what’s left to look forward to but a long and lonely winter?

I gotta head to California today.

Quick update on the progress of the redesign.

What’s happening with this site for Thanksgiving? Not much.

Unfortunately, the results of the Boxes and Arrows competition are out.

Continuing headaches with my host provider.

In the process of redesigning Subtraction.com, and dumping BBEdit or skEdit.

Thanks and a very important correction on who’s responsible for that Boxes and Arrows entry.

For Internet Explorer users, special accommodations are always necessary.

A Subtraction style sheet for the RSS aggregator PulpFiction.

Subtle tweaks may indicate an impending redesign.

A brand new HogBaySoftware.com launched today.

Community building is messy business with phpBB.

We’re at it again for the AIGA.

Errors fixed. Happy new year!

A mostly-Macintosh list of stuff I’m preoccupied with.

Planned improvements to Subtraction.com

Plans for the 4th of July.

500 posts is a milestone of some kind, right?

An email blunder caused me to miss out on a year and a half’s worth of messages.

No posts for a few days while I’m out of town.

Drawing used to be what I did, all the time, but it no longer seems the case.

The latest iteration of this site, version Six.5, goes public today.

As I prepare to officially release Six.5, a few words on what I’m looking to get out of it.

I broke my moratorium on freelance work to do this quick postcard for a friend’s comedy show.

For the sake of posterity, a few technical notes on how I built Subtraction.com version Six.5.

How redesigning my site has influenced how I write, and how I write has influenced redesigning my site.

Movable Type is among the best software packages I’ve ever used. It has its shortcomings, but you have to dig deep to find them.

Most of the major work on Six.5 is done, including transforming the site from fluid to fixed-width layouts.

The version Six.5 redesign is underway, and here is an explanation of the rationale behind it.

This afternoon I’m leaving on a train for Northern Virginia to kick off our first project with a brand new client.

Expect some downtime while I work on getting version Six.5 up and running.

It used to be that I hated Netscape, but now, after diving into CSS and XHTML, I realize how poor a Web browser Internet Explorer really is.

The rules that govern this blog and the posts that I make to it.

It’s the end of March, and all 200-plus of my old posts are now available.

Eric Meyer helps you get your head around Cascading Style Sheets.

RSS is fun, and NetNewsWire is a great RSS client.

An update on porting Subtraction.com over to Movable Type.

Damn expired email addresses! Through an oversight, the domain registration for Subtraction.com recently expired.

Time to get back to blogging.

Just got Movable Type installed. Whee!

Just posted a new Subtraction cover.

No site to launch today.

Thanks to Newstoday.

Subtraction now has search capability.

Getting on with life after September 11.

Moving over to Media Temple.

Problems with my ISP has messed up my email.

Getting off my ass and doing some work on my own stuff.

It’s so hard to maintain a blog, wah wah.

All of this is why I haven’t been posting to my blog.

Moving my blog up front.

Being back in Singapore is weird, in unexpected ways.

The world needs another Web site.

How to write about my life.

Getting turned onto Blogger for the first time.

So I had an idea for keeping an online journal, see…