The publisher

Role: Co-Founder and Editor

Along with Jeffrey Zeldman and Jason Santa Maria, I co-founded A Book Apart, a publisher of brief books for people who make websites. Our first title, Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers, provides everything a web designer needs to know about the web’s new markup language, from the new semantics to strategies for using HTML5 today. Order yours now.

The redesign

Role: Client Creative Director

W. W. Norton & Company is the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees. Founded in 1923, Norton has published classics by Sigmund Freud, Vincent Bugliosi, A.R. Ammons, Seamas Heaney, Michael Lewis, and many others. more

Giving voice

Role: Designer & Developer

Launched in April 2009—in celebration of National Poetry Month—Poems Out Loud is a place for poetry. Inspired by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky’s volume Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, the site features columns and recorded readings by well-known and award-winning poets as well as general poetry news and ephemera. more

Naked

Role: Designer & Developer

Photographer Carrie Levy explores themes of identity and exposure in her work. She approached me to design a site that would display her photography without getting in the way. more

In print

Role: Designer & Copywriter

Over the course of several years, I wrote and designed hundreds of catalogs promoting books from W. W. Norton & Company and Thames&Hudson. Each catalog was an exercise in displaying a robust amount of information in a format that was both compelling and readable. Nearly all the catalogs were printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper, part of an overall effort to promote sustainability within Norton’s publishing program.