Wed 24 Feb
2010
A not-quite-instant replay of last week’s layer tennis exhibition match between Nicholas “Feltron” Felton and myself.
Wed 17 Feb
2010
Tune in Friday as I take on Nicholas Felton in an exhibit match of Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis.
Tue 12 Jan
2010
A step by step look at my illustration for Hype Machine’s thirteenth-best band of 2009.
Sat 14 Nov
2009
A beautiful, brand new blog theme based on Subtraction.com, designed by Allan Cole and myself.
Fri 24 Jul
2009
Come see me speak next Tuesday evening at Galapagos Art Space.
Wed 04 Mar
2009
Now open for business: a daily, straight-to-your-inbox newsletter of Subtraction.com blog posts.
Wed 01 Oct
2008
Underestimating the importance of RSS in a redesign.
Mon 29 Sep
2008
A funny thing happened to me on the way to practically abandoning this blog.
Wed 30 Jan
2008
First steps to a new publishing platform.
Sat 26 Jan
2008
Looking for a new hosting provider. I think.
Thu 03 Jan
2008
The thrill of seeing one’s name in print remains undiminished.
Sat 24 Nov
2007
Reprints for Hel-Fucking-Vetica and Fear of a Cooper Black Planet are now on sale.
Fri 16 Nov
2007
Test prints for my long-awaited second batch of Hel-Fucking-Vetica shirts.
Thu 01 Nov
2007
Five clichés I turn to again and again.
Thu 25 Oct
2007
Resolved: more personal appearances in my neighborhood next year.
Mon 15 Oct
2007
A report from my three speaking appearances this weekend, including slides.
Fri 14 Sep
2007
Bury bad news on a Friday after the market is closed, right? Illustrate Me is dead.
Wed 12 Sep
2007
Sign-up now for the Subtraction.com Newsletter and work at home for big $$$.
Tue 11 Sep
2007
A new Message on today’s anniversary, plus a chance to meet one of our illustrators tonight.
Sun 09 Sep
2007
Eking out a bit more performance from this creaky old publishing system.
Mon 03 Sep
2007
A brand new forum for design writing that leaves time for You Tube.
Tue 28 Aug
2007
What I did with the painfully slow site search on Subtraction.com.
Wed 22 Aug
2007
Attention lazyweb: help me put more messages in your In Box.
Thu 14 Jun
2007
It’s really difficult to keep it short.
Mon 09 Apr
2007
Liz Danzico’s one-two punch for last month’s archives.
Tue 27 Mar
2007
First in a series of F.A.Q.’s: can you use the design of this site for your own purposes?
Sun 18 Mar
2007
The meat of the grid presentations I’ve been making recently, now available for download.
Thu 15 Mar
2007
How I blew it during one of my SXSW appearances.
Fri 09 Mar
2007
Who to favor when designing features.
Thu 08 Mar
2007
A new era of short posts, in advance of South by Southwest 2007.
Wed 07 Mar
2007
Interrupting this program for a word from your blogger.
Mon 05 Mar
2007
Nicholas Blechman catches us up with an illustration for my archives.
Sun 25 Feb
2007
Out of my continental mind.
Tue 30 Jan
2007
Things about me that seem very important right now.
Mon 29 Jan
2007
Just under the gun, December’s Illustrate Me goes live.
Tue 05 Dec
2006
A puzzler of a piece by Rob Giampietro for November’s Illustrate Me.
Tue 21 Nov
2006
Movable Type maintenance in progress here.
Tue 31 Oct
2006
It’s no trick: an on-time treat for Illustrate Me fans.
Thu 19 Oct
2006
Alissa Walker’s unexpectedly powerful illustration.
Wed 18 Oct
2006
Problems publishing this blog that shouldn’t require anyone smarter than me to fix.
Mon 25 Sep
2006
An update on tee-shirt-fueled support for Subtraction.com.
Tue 19 Sep
2006
Come see me at AIGA Baltimore on Thu, and then go see Jeffrey Zeldman at AIGA New York in Oct.
Mon 18 Sep
2006
The August 2006 entry for Illustrate Me owes a debt to youth and talent.
Wed 13 Sep
2006
The long-awaited Hel-Fucking-Vetica tee shirts are available to buy!
Tue 29 Aug
2006
Look for me in a speaking engagement in Baltimore on 21 Sep.
Thu 24 Aug
2006
A free link aliasing utility I built just for you.
Mon 07 Aug
2006
An interview with Veerle Pieters on the artwork she created for July’s Illustrate Me.
Wed 19 Jul
2006
A sneak peek at a chance to spend some money on Subtraction.com.
Tue 18 Jul
2006
An interview with me and Jeffrey Veen conducted by 37signals.
Mon 17 Jul
2006
June’s art and an update on the project.
Thu 13 Jul
2006
Learning to deal with the sincerest form of flattery from an institution of higher learning.
Wed 12 Jul
2006
Wrapping up my appearance and attendance at An Event Apart New York City.
Tue 20 Jun
2006
A brand new illustration for all the blog posts I wrote in May.
Tue 23 May
2006
Looking for input for my talk at An Event Apart New York.
Mon 22 May
2006
A shockingly large article and photo of me in a Swedish design magazine.
Mon 15 May
2006
Debuting today: a modest little effort to bring illustration to the Web.
Sat 22 Apr
2006
On blogging, changes to the comments policy, and calling special attention to me.
Mon 10 Apr
2006
A new links section raises some issues with CSS text control.
Wed 22 Feb
2006
Come see me talk about design at this year’s South by Southwest.
Mon 23 Jan
2006
An unexpected honor from the Annual Weblog Awards.
Fri 13 Jan
2006
Looking back at some design work I did in the mid-nineties.
Sun 20 Nov
2005
A quick housekeeping post before I head to Newark International Airport.
Mon 14 Nov
2005
Justin Goodlett asked me a whole bunch of tough questions recently.
Mon 07 Nov
2005
James Archer grills me on that one big project I worked on recently.
Tue 13 Sep
2005
New work for my old lady: an identity and Web site for Paragraph, LLC.
Sun 17 Jul
2005
A couple of housekeeping notes on Subtraction.com.
Sun 19 Jun
2005
A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.
Tue 17 May
2005
Coming to terms with remarkable similarities which may or may not be intentional.
When I wasn’t looking, someone stole my Web site.
Fri 22 Apr
2005
Someone’s ripping off somebody’s design.
Tue 01 Mar
2005
Don’t sit there trying to come up with something to blog about unless you have something to blog about.
Mon 28 Feb
2005
Recent experiences writing stuff for other people.
Thu 24 Feb
2005
The navigation bar that I worked long and hard to perfect, and then gave up on.
Mon 10 Jan
2005
Just to prove I’m not just being a jerk, here’s why I.E. gets second-class treatment.
Mon 03 Jan
2005
Looking back at an early, abortive attempt at keeping an online journal.
Sun 02 Jan
2005
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.
Fri 31 Dec
2004
A look at the layout grid behind the version 7.0 redesign.
Thu 30 Dec
2004
I’ve finally got version 7.0 of this Web site in a state where it’s practically ready to launched.
Sun 26 Dec
2004
Now Christmas is past, what’s left to look forward to but a long and lonely winter?
Wed 24 Nov
2004
Unfortunately, the results of the Boxes and Arrows competition are out.
Tue 07 Sep
2004
In the process of redesigning Subtraction.com, and dumping BBEdit or skEdit.
Thu 19 Aug
2004
Thanks and a very important correction on who’s responsible for that Boxes and Arrows entry.
Tue 17 Aug
2004
For Internet Explorer users, special accommodations are always necessary.
Sun 08 Aug
2004
A Subtraction style sheet for the RSS aggregator PulpFiction.
Sun 14 Mar
2004
Community building is messy business with phpBB.
Wed 22 Oct
2003
A mostly-Macintosh list of stuff I’m preoccupied with.
Wed 10 Sep
2003
Planned improvements to Subtraction.com
Tue 03 Jun
2003
An email blunder caused me to miss out on a year and a half’s worth of messages.
Wed 07 May
2003
Drawing used to be what I did, all the time, but it no longer seems the case.
Mon 28 Apr
2003
The latest iteration of this site, version Six.5, goes public today.
Sat 26 Apr
2003
As I prepare to officially release Six.5, a few words on what I’m looking to get out of it.
Thu 24 Apr
2003
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.
Tue 22 Apr
2003
How redesigning my site has influenced how I write, and how I write has influenced redesigning my site.
Mon 21 Apr
2003
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.
Sun 20 Apr
2003
Most of the major work on Six.5 is done, including transforming the site from fluid to fixed-width layouts.
Sat 19 Apr
2003
The version Six.5 redesign is underway, and here is an explanation of the rationale behind it.
Tue 15 Apr
2003
This afternoon I’m leaving on a train for Northern Virginia to kick off our first project with a brand new client.
Sun 13 Apr
2003
Expect some downtime while I work on getting version Six.5 up and running.
Tue 08 Apr
2003
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.
Sat 05 Apr
2003
The rules that govern this blog and the posts that I make to it.
Sun 30 Mar
2003
Its the end of March, and all 200-plus of my old posts are now available.
Sat 22 Mar
2003
Eric Meyer helps you get your head around Cascading Style Sheets.
Mon 03 Mar
2003
Damn expired email addresses! Through an oversight, the domain registration for Subtraction.com recently expired.
Wed 18 Jul
2001
Getting off my ass and doing some work on my own stuff.