This is the first post in a series about the role of html and css in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. As I was fin­ish­ing up a les­son on html and css for class today, I was, again, struck by the thought that html and css are pri­mar­ily geared, it seems to me, around cre­at­ing a dig­i­tal edi­tion. This is, of course, […]

Dig­i­tal human­i­ties is about many things: the infi­nite archive, pro­gram­ming, markup, style, knowl­edge pro­duc­tion, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and graphic design. I believe that graphic design is a key ele­ment in under­stand­ing and doing dig­i­tal human­i­ties because design is a core part of our mod­ern expe­ri­ence as cit­i­zens and as human­ists. Under­stand­ing the ele­ments of design, from color to typog­ra­phy, is […]