Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is an American
blogger,
graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...
, and web designer known for his blog Kottke.org.
He won a
Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.
, his blog is ranked #66 overall and #20 in Science on the
Technorati Top 100.
Design work
Kottke attended
Coe College on scholarship in
Iowa and eventually began a career in design. In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typeface—since used by
Adobe
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,
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
, and
Volvo among others. His design work has been featured in ''
The New Yorker'', ''
The New York Times'', ''
Forbes'', and ''
Brill's Content
Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950) is an American lawyer, journalist, and entrepreneur who founded monthly magazine ''The American Lawyer'' and cable channel Court TV. He is the author of the best-selling book, ''Tailspin: The People and Forces ...
''. Kottke created the iconic
Gawker
''Gawker'' is an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. According to SimilarWeb, the site had over 23 million visits per month as of 2015. Founded in ...
logo in 2002 in what he claims was "whipped up in
Photoshop in 30 minutes as a placeholder".
Kottke.org (blog)
Kottke is considered a pioneering blogger and began his blog in March 1998.
In 2000, Kottke and his then-girlfriend were profiled in a ''
New Yorker'' article, "You've Got Blog", which introduced blogging to a wider audience.
His contributions to blogging were acknowledged when he won a Bloggie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 after five years of blogging. In 2005 Kottke was able to quit his day job to focus on blogging full-time. Kottke writes that as of 2019, "Probably 60 percent of my revenue is from membership, and the rest is from
Amazon and ads." His blogging got him in trouble with
Sony when he broke the news of the loss that broke
Ken Jennings' ''
Jeopardy!'' win streak.
Personal life
Kottke was married to
Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger.com, Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google.
Career
Hourihan graduated from Tufts University in 1994.
In 1999, she and Evan Williams (Int ...
and they have two children. He lives in
Vermont.
[Woo, Michelle]
"I'm Jason Kottke, Creator of Kottke.org, and This Is How I Parent"
''Lifehacker
''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on January 31, 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is currently owned by G/O Media. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including: Microsoft W ...
'', 6 August 2018. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
References
External links
Kottke.org Official website
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1973 births
American male bloggers
American bloggers
Living people
People from Wisconsin
American Internet celebrities
Web designers
Coe College alumni