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A Los Angeles Primer: Union Station
A history of Los Angeles Union Station, the 1939 rail terminal, covering its Mission Revival design, its Dean Cornwell m…
A Love Letter to Cassette Futurism
An essay on cassette futurism, the chunky, tactile retro-tech look of 1980s sci-fi screens and hardware, and why it feel…
A Neural Network That Writes Hangul by Hand
A write-up on training a recurrent neural network to generate Korean handwriting strokes, from collecting 4,500 lines wi…
A New Spline
Raph Levien explains a new spline that continues his Spiro curve work from his PhD thesis, with examples of smooth curve…
A Physically-Based GPU Ray Tracer in Julia
A blog post from the Makie team showing how a physically-based ray tracer was written in Julia and run on the GPU, with…
A Readable Wikipedia
A design experiment that restyles Wikipedia articles with a clean grid and better typography, showing how the world's bi…
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A review of Julian Assange's favourite meme
Artist Chris Hayes reviews the wake-up-sheeple meme as if it were a gallery artwork, dissecting its composition, symboli…
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A Simple (Visual) Guide to Eggs
An infographic that decodes egg carton labels such as cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised and organic, showing what ea…
A Solarpunk Manifesto
The widely shared Solarpunk Manifesto, a list of principles for an optimistic, sustainable, community-minded future that…
A Symphony of Color: Mary Gartside on Light and Shade
A Winterthur blog post on Mary Gartside's 1805 Essay on Light and Shade, an early color theory book by a woman, with its…
A World Building Checklist
A checklist of topics to cover when building a fantasy world for tabletop games, from geography and cultures to religion…
Abandoned Motorola Headquarters
Wander through photos of Motorola's empty former headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, with deserted offices and lobbies…
After Water
An illustrated story on Longreads about California and what happens to the land, the farms and the people when the water…
Ahab's Leg Dilemma
An illustrated essay on how illustrators and filmmakers have tried to picture Captain Ahab's ivory whalebone leg from Mo…
Algorave: The Live Coding Movement
A feature on algorave, the movement where artists write code live to generate dance music and visuals, and how laptops b…
All About Boro
The history of boro, the patched and endlessly mended indigo textiles of rural Japan, how poverty created them and how t…
All of the 8,331 License Plates in America
A visual catalogue of every license plate design the US states offer, from universities and sports teams to professions…
Allen Ginsberg's Typewriter
Three poems by Jim Bennett in the literary magazine Empty Mirror, opening with the tale of buying Allen Ginsberg's porta…
An Intro to Modern OpenGL: The Graphics Pipeline
The first chapter of an introduction to modern OpenGL, explaining how the graphics pipeline turns vertices into pixels b…
An Introduction to Shaders, Part 1
A tutorial from Aerotwist that introduces shaders using three.js, explaining the basics of vertex and fragment programs…
Analyzing 50k Fonts Using Deep Neural Networks
Erik Bernhardsson scrapes 50,000 fonts and trains neural networks on them, then explores the learned font space with vis…
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Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars
A detailed design history of the Star Wars logo, tracing its evolution from early concept lettering through the famous S…
Anders Hoff / inconvergent
The algorithmic art notebook of Anders Hoff, documenting generative systems like erosion, growth, and flocking with visu…
Animation Obsessive
A newsletter exploring animation history and craft from around the world, telling deeply researched stories about classi…
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