By Raewyn Whyte, October 18

Books In Browsers VII and An Event Apart (Oct-Nov)

3-4 November, San Francisco
Books in Browsers VII: Telling Small Stories  will focus on how images and videos, alongside text, are being adopted to form new narratives, instructional materials, and scholarship to achieve more interactive and visual forms of storytelling. Full details here

31 October - 2 November, San Francisco
An Event Apart - three days of design, code and content
includes three events of special interest to Paged Media followers: Jen Simmons presents two sessions: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web and Designing Layouts: the new Superpowers of CSS and Rachel Andrew demonstrates with practical examples how to embrace the new layout methods in CSS.  Full details here.

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