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On Bill Watterson's Refusal to License Calvin and Hobbes
An essay on why cartoonist Bill Watterson turned down fortunes in toys, movies and merchandise for Calvin and Hobbes, an…
On Craft
A personal essay by Cat Hicks that starts with a grandfather's slide guitar and reflects on what craft means and how car…
On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi
Adam Golaski imagines and reviews a David Lynch-directed Return of the Jedi, a strange, dreamlike piece of fan criticism…
On Keeping Sketchbooks
A designer's reflective essay on the habit of keeping sketchbooks, what they are for, and why messy pages matter more th…
On Lacework
An artist explains watching an entire machine-learning video dataset of a million clips and turning it into Lacework, a…
On Ray Casting, Ray Tracing, Ray Marching and the Like
An introduction by Adok in the Hugi diskmag that explains ray casting, ray tracing, and ray marching, the techniques beh…
Open Culture - The best free cultural & educational media on the web
An aggregator of free cultural and educational media including online courses, audiobooks, films, and eBooks.
OpenSCAD Configurable Calendar
A write-up of a parametric calendar built in OpenSCAD, with options to configure the year, layout, and sizes for printin…
Order Up
A visual tour of midcentury North American restaurant placemats, with colorful maps, jokes and food illustrations from t…
Origami Resource Center
A free instructional hub with step-by-step diagrams for folding cranes, animals, and flowers, aimed squarely at origami…
Origami-Fun
An entirely free site of printable and viewable origami diagrams and videos covering everything from simple boats to int…
OrigamiUSA Free Diagrams
The national origami society's free diagram collection featuring designs from contemporary paper artists alongside its o…
Oskar Fischinger Biography
The Center for Visual Music's biography of Oskar Fischinger, the abstract animation pioneer whose hand-made films set ge…
Outdoor Photographer
A magazine covering nature and landscape photography with technique articles, gear reviews, and destination guides for o…
PabloNet
A build log of a wall-mounted mirror that uses a diffusion model to turn the viewer's reflection into a painting in real…
Painters on Paintings
An online journal where contemporary painters each write a short personal essay about a single painting they love, with…
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Paper Mau
A long-running papercraft blog curating and linking free printable paper models of vehicles, buildings, and characters f…
Paper sizes
An illustrated explainer of how the A-series paper sizes work, why the ratio is the square root of two, and how they com…
Parchment-making
Cornell's library conservators document how parchment is made from animal skin, step by step with photos of soaking, scr…
Paul Rand: NeXT Computers
Paul Rand's famous 1986 brand proposal for NeXT, with the full design presentation explaining how the cube logo was reas…
Paul Sellers's Blog
A master craftsman's long-running blog on traditional hand-tool woodworking, sharing techniques, tool restoration tips,…
Paula Scher on The Great Discontent
A long, candid interview with designer Paula Scher about her path from album covers to the Public Theater identity, pain…
Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms, Part 1
The first part of Matt DesLauriers' series on generative pen plotter art, introducing linear interpolation (mix or lerp)…
Peranakan Tiles
Garland Magazine follows the hands-on production of traditional Peranakan tiles in Malaysia, explaining their colours, m…
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