Blue Beanie Day II
Kyle reminded me the other day that I should promote Blue Beanie Day here. The concept is simple, but a little obscure, so I’ll summarize:
One of the most profound and ground breaking books about web standards was Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. The book advocated the use of accessible, semantic web content at a time when most designers were still slicing up Photoshop comps to create inaccessible table-based websites. The cover of that book featured Zeldman himself wearing a blue beanie. That iconic image is now the Che Guevara icon for web standards revolution. To show support and appreciation for web standards, designers & developers around the world will be donning their own blue beanie hats on November 28, 2008.
Learn More: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Post about the event.
Participate: The official facebook event page & flickr group.
[...] Jason Beaird of Refresh Columbia recently quipped that Zeldman’s Blue Beanie image “is now the Che Guevara icon for web standards revolution.” The Blue Beanie Day symbol (in the context of Web Standards) was made famous by the original Standardista ( Jeffrey Zeldman ) and his book covers. [...]