Across the web

Speaking

dotAll 2017

Editorial design in Craft

The web is under threat. Information and attention is consolidating under the centralized platforms of our social media overlords. Lucky for us, we have our own weapon to fight back with. Craft has the power to bring expression and independence back to our web… we just need to know why, how, and when to use it. Let’s look at how to turn our trusty publishing tool into an art directing machine.

Design & Content Conference 2016

Words and pixels with love

The web is under threat. Information and attention is consolidating under the centralized platforms of our social media overlords. Lucky for us, we have our own weapon to fight back with. Craft has the power to bring expression and independence back to our web… we just need to know why, how, and when to use it. Let’s look at how to turn our trusty publishing tool into an art directing machine.

Soap! Conference 2016

Design Machines: How to survive the digital apocalypse

Travis Gertz’s presentation titled “Design Machines: How to survive the digital apocalypse” delivered at soap! 2016 the best content conference that took place on June 2-3 in Kraków, Poland.

Type Brigade №26

Travis Gertz is the co-founder of Louder Than Ten, the school for freelancers and teams managing design projects. He has a knack for translating what’s great about traditional publication designs to a more appropriate format on the web. At Type Brigade №26, he’ll show us a new kind of breakpoint.

Writing

Rambling

CTRL + Click Cast

Live Wires with Travis Gertz

As our workflows evolve to support responsive, mobile-friendly sites, so too should our deliverables. Enter web-based wireframes. Travis Gertz, creator of Live Wires, joins the show to share why he built the framework and the benefits of web-based wireframes. We talk about the pros and cons of frameworks, in general, and how Live Wires is different because it is intentionally flexible and non-prescriptive. And we discuss the “sameness” we see in the industry and how we can better push our creative boundaries.