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Rejuvinate with the ALA Summer Reading Issue

If you call yourself a web designer and are heading off on that hard-earned summer holiday, you can do worse than packing the ALA Summer Reading Issue, in which the ALA staff share their favourite articles from 355 issues ranging over 10 years.

Getting acquainted, or reacquainted with the seminal articles which shaped and formed our industry is providing essential context for moving forward. This collection of articles is exactly the kind of tonic that will rekindle your spirit and boost your enthusiasm for an industry that has moved very, very far in a short space of time, but still has plenty of space to grow, and distance to travel.

Conveniently packaged up as a Readlist, suitable for perusing on your electronic reading device, we can’t recommended it highly enough.

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The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

• Cameron Koczon builds things, organises things and writes things (and, of particular appeal to our passion for gentlemanly pursuits, smokes an impressive variety of pipes). He lives and works in Brooklyn. We asked Mr Koczon a dozen questions…
• Josh Brewer is Design Lead at Twitter, and an accomplished author and speaker who, "Spends his time thinking about, designing and building things that live at the intersection of form, function and aesthetic." He lives and works in San Francisco. We asked Mr Brewer a dozen questions…
• Brooklyn Beta Summer Camp aims to help designer-developer teams build the next generation of web products and change the world. From the talented team behind Brooklyn Beta it promises to be the ultimate summer camp. Go on, sign up. Make something awesome…

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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