Notes

FOWD Belfast Redux

Thanks to everyone for all the support at FOWD Belfast. It was an inspiring day and the event marked a great start to Carsonified’s four city FOWD UK Tour.

It was great to share a platform with the very talented Mr Andy Clarke and Mr Drew McLellan.

Mr Clarke’s presentations - an extreme typography makeover followed by a look at designing in the browser - were inspiring and the latter certainly sparked off a great deal of discussion at the after-party.

Mr Drew McLellan’s presentations - on the benefits of embracing microformats followed by ten cost effective web development techniques - showcased some admirable live coding and good old-fashioned common sense.

If you couldn’t make the event (or need to refresh your memory) Mr Clarke’s Extreme Makeover, Typography Edition and Mr McLellan’s Cost Effective Web Development Techniques are now available to peruse. We are, as we speak, in the process of uploading our slides. Watch this space for a note when they’re uploaded.

We’ll be talking type next at Refresh Belfast, running through a number of recently emerging (and rapidly developing) services for type on the web. We’ll post a note about what our presentation will cover shortly, for now though, thanks again to Louise, Keir and Greg of Carsonified for their hard work on ensuring FOWD Belfast was a success. Good hustle bro’…

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