Cameron Chapman - The Smashing Idea Book From Inspiration to Application

The Smashing Idea Book:
From Inspiration to Application Cameron Chapman This edition first published 2011 2011 Wiley and Sons Registered office
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Indexer: Potomac Indexing, LLC About the Author Cameron Chapman is a largely self-taught designer with a formal education in interior design and a practical background in both web and print design, gained primarily while working for a national real estate magazine. She has written about design and social media for a number of leading blogs, including Smashing Magazine, Mashable, Six Revisions, and Webdesigner Depot. Cameron has been an editor at Smashing Magazine and for the Tuts+ Network. Currently, she splits her time between writing about design and actually designing, with a focus on the former in recent years. Authors Acknowledgments First, thank you to Kezia Endsley, Chris Webb, Ellie Scott, Sara Shlaer, Leslie Saxman, Alex Charchar, and everyone else at Wiley who made this book possible. Thank you to Vitaly Friedman, Sven Lennartz, and everyone else at Smashing Magazine for being fantastic people to work for and with.

Thank you to Pete Cashmore for hiring a mostly-unknown environmental blogger to write regularly for Mashable, which gave me the initial credibility to get every other blogging job Ive had. And a huge thank you to my husband and fellow designer, Mike Moffit, for getting me started with graphic and web design, and for helping me figure out coding problems whenever I get stuck, despite his insistence that hes a horrible teacher.