Author Andrew Clarke

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Andy Clarke is a well-known digital designer, speaker, and writer who’s based in Sydney. Prior to moving to Australia, Andy founded Stuff & Nonsense, one of the best-known web design studios, where he designed for Disney Store UK, Greenpeace, SunLife, and WWF. Andy’s written three popular books on website design and development including Hardboiled Web Design and Transcending CSS. Andy’s been called plenty of things since he started working on the web. His ego likes terms such as “Ambassador for CSS,” “industry prophet” and “inspiring,” but he’s most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “triple-talented bastard.” He really, really, loves gorillas.

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Art Directing For The Web With CSS Grid Template Areas

April 9, 2018 — (This article is kindly sponsored by CoffeeCup Software.) If you’re at all serious about web design or development, you need to be serious about learning and using CSS Grid, too. Andrew Clarke explains how. Read More…

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A Modern Designer's Canvas

March 25, 2014 — When I gave this talk a title, I called it “A Modern Designer’s Canvas,” because originally I was going to talk about the tools and processes that I use when I’m designing. But being a good designer or developer is about so much more than knowing how to use tools. It’s also … Read More…

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How To Encourage Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects

September 28, 2012 — Last week at the fabulous Smashing Conference in Freiburg, I gave a new talk, one I’d written just a few hours prior. I chose not to use slides, but instead to speak about three things that I’m incredibly enthusiastic about: Responsive design is not (just) a design or … Read More…