Jarche.com redesign

In April, 2014, Tantramar Interactive Inc. launched its first-ever design of Jarche.com. Having met Harold Jarche at the Centre for Learning Technologies at Mount Allison University in 1998, I have been hosting his professional blog since he ventured out on his own in 2004, but this marks the first time he hasn’t gone with an off-the-shelf theme for his blog.

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20 years wrangling the web (so you don’t have to)

This week marks the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web. My own humble take on this momentous event is that I’ve personally been working on it for almost exactly 20 years now.

It was a day like many others, in early 1994, when Cameron Bales (@tarlbot), my partner-in-crime turned to me in our tiny, shared office on the second floor of (what the “physics people” called) the Physics building at Mount Allison University, here in Sackville, New Brunswick, and said,

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Do you want to blend in or stand out?

While the tweet quoted here is explicitly about the design of typefaces, it applies to design in general: Remember, as a client commissioning type, it won’t express anything special or unique about you if it looks the same as everyone else. Gareth Hague