Elliot Jay Stocks

My name is Elliot Jay Stocks and I’m a designer, speaker, and author based in Bristol, England. This site is a constantly evolving work-in-progress, so may appear messy from time to time.

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2011

2011 in review goals for 2012

December 29 2011

Announcing Insites: The Book

December 21 2011

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

December 16 2011

8 Faces #4

December 06 2011

Viewport Industries & The 2012 Experiment

November 17 2011

The typography-out approach in the world of browser-based web design

October 07 2011

Steve Jobs

October 06 2011

Help us raise $35,000 for clean water in Ethiopia

September 30 2011

The Kindle Fire

September 29 2011

A new elliotjaystocks.com

September 23 2011

Review: ColcaSac MacBook Air 11" sleeve

September 22 2011

Extensis’ Web Font Plug-In

September 13 2011

Choose your web fonts wisely

September 01 2011

The relevance of the baseline grid

August 24 2011

Profiled in Computer Arts Projects

August 23 2011

I'm redesigning Smashing Magazine

August 18 2011

8 Faces #3

August 17 2011

Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction

August 15 2011

A note about my new Mac set-up

August 09 2011

Adobe Edge

August 01 2011

A cloud-centric software licence

July 25 2011

Three things

July 08 2011

Font-weight in the age of web fonts

July 07 2011

The Email Charter

July 04 2011

First impressions of Google Plus

June 30 2011

Free HTML / CSS for type & palette proposals

June 24 2011

Get away from your desk

June 02 2011

CSS transitions & media queries

May 31 2011

Authentic Jobs UK

May 26 2011

Using TextExpander to conquer email

May 11 2011

Tracked

May 06 2011

Posthumous posting

May 05 2011

A preview of Codex: the journal of typography

April 27 2011

Adobe's Digital Publishing mistake

April 25 2011

Introducing: Insites

April 21 2011

Time away from email

April 18 2011

An open letter to Dropbox

April 10 2011

A cloud-centric Mac set-up

April 05 2011

Clueless

March 29 2011

Allow yourself a sick day

March 24 2011

Using web fonts in desktop design apps

March 22 2011

Ideas of March (a return to blogging)

March 21 2011

2010

2010 in review & goals for 2011

December 27 2010

The best web conferences of 2010

December 22 2010

The search for the perfect media centre

November 22 2010

8 Faces #2

November 10 2010

Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke

October 19 2010

The fine art of saying hello

September 15 2010

Win a special edition of 8 Faces

August 17 2010

MoviePeg alphabet

August 09 2010

On publishing

July 28 2010

8 Faces #1 now available to pre-order

July 16 2010

8 Faces: very, very soon

July 09 2010

EP 2 is on its way

June 28 2010

Starkers 3.0

June 21 2010

Perfect Harmony

June 21 2010

Pulse news reader for iPad

June 11 2010

Back up

June 10 2010

Steve Jobs on Flash

April 30 2010

The inevitable failure of e-readers

April 24 2010

Web designers who can't code

February 18 2010

First thoughts on the iPad

January 28 2010

Starkers: HTML5 & the future

January 25 2010

Bristol bound

January 23 2010

The Apple Tablet

January 12 2010

2008

Goals, old and new

December 22 2008

Studio diary: part 2

December 15 2008

LittleSnapper

December 11 2008

Studio diary: part 1

December 02 2008

Write off that first hour

November 27 2008

Interviewed in Blogorola magazine & Floobe

November 24 2008

A quick word on advertising

November 19 2008

Round-up of 2008 speaking events

November 14 2008

Samantha Cliffe Photography

October 24 2008

Speaking events in early 2009

October 21 2008

Build your profile to get more freelance work

October 13 2008

Why being freelance does not mean you have to work more hours

October 06 2008

Starkers for WordPress 2.6.2

September 18 2008

Forthcoming speaking events

September 09 2008

Thwart the design thieves feature in .net magazine

September 01 2008

Death to IE6

August 27 2008

Vote for my SXSW ‘09 panels

August 13 2008

Bypassing the new Delicious site

August 12 2008

Interview on Boagworld (and appearance on The BeerCast)

July 16 2008

Introducing WooThemes; or, How you can own my WordPress theme designs

July 09 2008

Tutorial: create a textured background image

June 28 2008

iPhone 3G disappointments

June 10 2008

A blessay about Twitter

May 23 2008

Happy National Day!

May 18 2008

Learning lessons

May 07 2008

The to-do list problem & the ‘Things’ solution

May 01 2008

Week one of working for myself

April 26 2008

FOWD London 2008 wrap-up

April 23 2008

Create the perfect logo feature in .net magazine

April 03 2008

‘A Gosling’ by Stuart Kolakovic

March 26 2008

Speaking and teaching at FOWD

March 12 2008

Want to help create the next version of elliotjaystocks.com?

March 07 2008

Wordpress tutorial:how to apply a dynamic body class or ID

February 23 2008

I’m leaving Carsonified

February 20 2008

How can we stop the thieves?

February 08 2008

Typesites

February 07 2008

Free ‘Starkers’ Wordpress theme

January 27 2008

Catastroph-IE

January 25 2008

Video on CommandShift3

January 24 2008

Kning Disk: beautiful Swedish design

January 18 2008

Cooking With Beer, episode 1:‘Mussels in Hoegaarden with Chips’

January 11 2008

Goals for 2008

January 04 2008

2007

Round-up of 2007 speaking events

December 25 2007

Tutorial: create transparent PNGs from your application icons

December 19 2007

Best of CSS Design 2007 / Top Blog Designs of 2007 / snap2objects interview

December 12 2007

24 ways

December 03 2007

The iPhone can make you a better person

November 30 2007

Always (mis)read the label

November 22 2007

‘Destroy The Web 2.0 Look’ @ Future of Web Design, New York

November 13 2007

CSS Tutorial: better nav image replacement

October 27 2007

Writeroom: minimalism at its best

October 24 2007

A week in books

October 12 2007

I’m speaking at Future Of Web Design, New York

October 09 2007

A little story about Airbag Industries’ new Sundance Film Festival site

October 05 2007

Hear me speak at SXSW!

September 20 2007

The new version (4.5) of elliotjaystocks.com

September 15 2007

I’m speaking at SkillSwap Bristol

September 14 2007

Win tickets to ‘iDesign’ next Tuesday

September 11 2007

Interviewed by Adriaan Pienaar

September 08 2007

The new iPods

September 06 2007

I’m speaking at the London Design Festival

September 01 2007

Featured on Web Designer Wall

August 23 2007

Featured in Artzmania magazine

August 11 2007

Apple’s new iMac & keyboard

August 08 2007

Feature in .net / Practical Web Design magazine

July 26 2007

I’m speaking at Oxford Geek Night 3

July 20 2007

5 apps for a new MacBook Pro

July 13 2007

Some pretty big news

June 20 2007

Now this is just silly

June 15 2007

Tutorial in Computer Arts magazine

June 09 2007

Apollo at Adobe Live 2007

June 06 2007

Pirated

May 28 2007

Featured in Smashing Magazine& Web Standards For Skeptics

May 22 2007

Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke

May 10 2007

Thoughts on Coda

April 24 2007

‘Gimmi’ custom Photoshop brushes (v1)

April 24 2007

ElliotJayStocks.com version 4

April 19 2007

Three mistakes Apple have made with the UK market

March 26 2007

2006

Bonnie, 1994 - 2006

December 30 2006

Enhanced CD Blues

December 07 2006

Christmas shopping: online, instore

November 29 2006

Misunderstanding web standards

November 09 2006

The joke that is IE7

November 02 2006

iTunes 7: I take it back

September 29 2006

iTunes 7

September 17 2006

Pedantic Semantics

September 05 2006

Beer heaven

June 28 2006

This is the end…

June 17 2006

A change of plan

June 15 2006

Dracula unspectacular

June 03 2006

Amsterdam > Prague > Vienna

May 25 2006

Aboard the ship surreal

May 22 2006

Brussels

May 20 2006

New site!

May 18 2006

2005

A man after my own heart

September 05 2005

On the deck

September 05 2005

Waking up to trees

September 05 2005

(Re)Thinking Aloud

September 05 2005

After the London bombings

July 07 2005

Untitled

January 26 2005

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