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Surrounded by Genius: Lessons From Nature on Great Design
A long-form feature on biomimicry with Janine Benyus, exploring how insect iridescence, fish hydrodynamics and other nat…
Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
A long appreciation of Ted Chiang's short stories, arguing he may be the best short story writer alive and unpacking the…
Ten Principles for Good Design
Dieter Rams's ten principles of good design set out in full, from the maker of his furniture: innovative, honest, long-l…
That Fractal on My Wall
A math-and-doodling story about a fractal drawn in middle school and kept on the wall for twelve years, with the hand-wa…
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The 100:10:1 Method for Game Design
A board game designer explains his process of brainstorming 100 game ideas, prototyping 10 and polishing 1, with concret…
The 12-bit Rainbow Palette
A hand-tuned palette of twelve colours chosen around how humans perceive luminance, chroma and hue, with every swatch ex…
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design
A look back at 1997, when Flash and CSS arrived and David Siegel, Jakob Nielsen and Jeffrey Zeldman each pushed a differ…
The Age of Average
An essay with side-by-side image grids showing how cars, cafes, buildings, and logos have all drifted toward the same bl…
The Architect's Newspaper
A trade publication reporting on architecture and urban design projects, policy debates, and the people shaping American…
The Arrow of Time
ZoneZero's photo essay by the Goldberg family, who meet every June 17 to photograph themselves, building a portrait seri…
The Art and History of Lettering Comics
Comics letterer Todd Klein's free online book on the history of hand-lettering in comics, covering forgotten letterers,…
The Art of LaTeX
An essay on common LaTeX mistakes and practical advice for typesetting beautiful, readable proofs, written for students…
The Art of PNG Glitch
A glitch artist's illustrated guide to how PNG files work inside and how corrupting their filters and compression produc…
The Barbican
A photographic and design-minded tour of London's Barbican Estate, written by someone who fell down a rabbit hole of bru…
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The Beatles and Visual Art
An art history blog post on the Beatles and visual art: Lennon and McCartney as art students and painters, their album c…
The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
A Longwood Gardens bonsai artist explains the classic styles, from formal upright to windswept and cascade, and how a tr…
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The Betty Boop Snow White: Destruction of Innocence
An essay on the Fleischer brothers' 1933 Betty Boop Snow White, a surreal pre-Code cartoon with Cab Calloway as a singin…
The Blue Badge, Reimagined
A designer's weekend project redesigning the Microsoft employee badge for a modern, neat look, with the mockups and reas…
The Bray Animation Project
A history of Paul Terry's Farmer Al Falfa cartoons of 1916, part of a project documenting the films and artists of Bray…
The Brooklyn Rail
A nonprofit magazine of art, culture, and politics publishing essays, criticism, and interviews from New York's arts com…
The Brothers Brick
A long-running LEGO fan blog showcasing standout custom creations from builders worldwide, with interviews and building…
The Caduceus Isn't The Medical Symbol You Think It Is
An explainer on how the caduceus, the snake-entwined staff of Hermes, got confused with the Rod of Asclepius and ended u…
The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable project that uses infrared LEDs to hide the wearer's face from IR security cameras, documented with photo…
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The Cat in the Medieval Bestiary
A medievalist's illustrated post on how cats appear in medieval bestiaries, with manuscript images of mouse-hunting cats…
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