Art & Design
543 articles · most loved first · page 1 of 23· Tonble one of these
Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
Digital publication from the Smithsonian covering history, science, innovation, arts, culture, and travel.
1/25-Scale Cray C90 Wristwatch
A maker's write-up of building a working wristwatch shaped like a scaled-down Cray C90 supercomputer, from 3D design and…
10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
The story of how a call to release the USDA's century-old fruit paintings turned into a public collection of thousands o…
11 Whimsical Animal Drawings by Leupin
A gallery of cheerful, brightly colored animal posters by Swiss commercial artist Herbert Leupin, with notes on how his…
15 Top Graphic Design Limericks
Fifteen silly limericks about the trials of graphic design, from kerning and clients to fonts and deadlines, inspired by…
18 Tips for Comic Book Artists by Moebius
Jean Moebius Giraud's 18 tips for cartoonists, translated and annotated by illustrator William Stout, covering drawing t…
thevictoriancyclist.wordpress.com
Article
1890s Cycle Companies and Cycling Ads
A history blog tour of 1890s bicycle advertisements, from art nouveau posters to quirky magazine ads, with notes on the…
21 Observations from People-Watching
A wedding painter shares 21 small, vivid observations about how strangers move, dress and behave in a room, written with…
250 Things an Architect Should Know
Michael Sorkin's famous list of 250 things an architect should know, from the smell of rain to the weight of a body, pre…
3D Modeling with Paper
A hobbyist's tour of papercraft: designing, unfolding, cutting, and assembling 3D models from paper, with photos of the…
3D Printing Giant Things With a Python Jigsaw Generator
A maker's write-up on generating giant jigsaw puzzles with a Python script and 3D printing the pieces, with the code and…
40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
A thoughtful review marking four decades of Koyaanisqatsi, the wordless Godfrey Reggio film with its Philip Glass score…
5 Mysterious Structures from the World's Smallest Architects
Macro photographer Nicky Bay shows five baffling structures built by tiny rainforest creatures, from the log-cabin cases…
50 Covers for 2013
The Casual Optimist's annotated list of fifty favourite book cover designs of 2013, each image shown with its designer c…
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines
An artist spends 50 hours hand drawing data visualizations with vintage drafting tools, documenting each step of turning…
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
A deadpan April Fools research paper showing that random paint splatters can be read as valid Perl, with a gallery of co…
A (More) Modern CSS Reset
An update to a widely shared CSS reset, explaining each rule that sets a consistent baseline across browsers and how the…
A Beginner's Guide to Making Beautiful Slides
Ines Montani shares her practical tips and three beginner-friendly steps for designing clear, attractive talk slides, wi…
A Brief History of Hotels' Photographic Darkrooms
Hotels once offered fully equipped darkrooms for travelling photographers, and this illustrated history traces how the a…
A Brief History of Lace
The Lace Guild traces lace from its 16th-century beginnings through bobbin and needle lace, the rise of machine lace and…
A Crafty Mix
An award-winning DIY blog sharing unique recycling and upcycling tutorials alongside general craft and home-decor projec…
A Darkly Mysterious Instrument
A post from the Historical Photographs of China project following Victorian photographer John Thomson through China, and…
A Kitchen for the Modern Woman
Norway's National Museum tells the story of the Frankfurt kitchen, the compact 1926 'laboratory of housework' by Margare…
A Literary History of Apple Fake Texts
An essay tracing the curious genre of staged text conversations in Apple's ads and keynotes, and what the style says abo…
Stumble onto more like this
One click takes you to a page you didn't know you were looking for. Rate it and the next one lands closer to your taste.
Add to Browser — it's freeWorks in Chrome, Edge and Brave. No account needed.