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In case you auto archive your Adobe Edge email newsletter, there's an interview with Eric Meyer in the latest one.

Towards the end he gives a string of CSS resources that he likes. They must be good!

Steven Heller's interview with Nichelle Narcisi started me on quite an adventure reading about the recent AIGA Next Conference. Sounds like those of us that missed it, really did miss out.

Narcisi won a reality style design competition at the conference called Command X where young designers were given a day to prepare designs to be judged by the seasoned pros.

Jason Schneider published 12 short and simple rules for making photos at popphoto.com.

Rule 6 could come in particularly handy for designers.

6. Largest Digital Print Rule

To calculate in inches the largest photo-quality print you can
make with a digital camera, divide the vertical and horizontal pixel
counts (see your manual) by 200. For critical applications, or if you
want exhibition-quality prints, divide the pixel counts by 250.

Which rule will make your images better?

Over the last few days I've been going over my HOW Conference materials typing notes and discarding things from the folder like presentation handouts from a QuarkXpress session. The conference was truly rich with inspiration and it has been difficult to visit all the links without clicking a couple time and becoming distracted.

Last evening I had the opportunity to join a large crowd to hear Wilson W. Smith III speak to AIGA Orlando.

Following are some notes and thoughts:

In December Smith will have been at Nike for 24 years. He says enjoyment of your job is all about the people you work with. Then he pointed out there are 600 designers at Nike. Wow. Even the CEO Mark Parker started out at Nike as a designer.

I had the opportunity to attend the Mobile Web Americas Conference in Orlando, Florida this week. The Mobile Web Market is HUGE and exploding. Now is the time to be ready to deliver content to mobile devices.

Every speaker at the conference began their presentation with a quote similar to:

"There are zillions more mobile units than PCs."

We need to be prepared for this growing user base.