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Two Spaces After a Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It
Farhad Manjoo's famously blunt essay arguing that typing two spaces after a period is wrong, with the typographic histor…
U.S. Acres Goes Half Hog
A comic-history page on how Jim Davis launched the U.S. Acres strip in 1986 as a second series after Garfield, with stri…
Understanding Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata
An illustrated deep dive into multiple neighborhood cellular automata, the GPU-friendly rule sets that grow organic, swi…
Understanding Perlin Noise
A step-by-step introduction to Perlin noise that explains gradients, interpolation, and octaves clearly enough to implem…
Untapped New York
A site uncovering hidden corners, abandoned infrastructure, and secret histories of New York City, from disused subway s…
Upcycle My Stuff
A DIY blog focused on upcycling inspiration and tutorials, aimed at both hobbyists and small businesses turning waste in…
Upcycle That
A dedicated upcycling site cataloguing thousands of creative reuse projects that turn everyday trash into furniture, dec…
UpcycleDZINE
A DIY blog with hundreds of upcycling ideas showing how to transform discarded furniture and materials into stylish new…
Urban Omnibus
The Architectural League of New York's publication on how the city is designed and inhabited, with essays on housing, in…
USA Political Election Logos 2008 - 1960
A visual roundup of US presidential campaign logos and bumper sticker designs from 1960 to 2008, showing how designers k…
Using Perlin Noise to Generate 2D Terrain and Water
A graphics tutorial showing how to build 2D terrain and water from Perlin noise, with explanations of the layering and s…
Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs
A short technical article showing how an SVG can combine a compressed JPEG with a mask to deliver transparent images at…
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
A long, illustrated adventure in image processing that turns train journeys into very wide panoramic photographs, explai…
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau: Living Statue
An art-historical essay on Virginie Gautreau, the Parisian beauty painted by Sargent as Madame X, and how she made her o…
Visiting Scarfolk
A tour of Scarfolk, Richard Littler's darkly funny 1970s British town of fake public-information posters, cursed ephemer…
Visual Design Rules You Can Safely Follow
A short, practical checklist of visual design rules that reliably work, from spacing and alignment to contrast, each exp…
Visual Wilderness
An online learning community for landscape photographers offering courses, articles, and critique on composition and lig…
Visualizing Disk IO Activity Using Log-Scale Banded Graphs
A development note from the Bvckup 2 backup tool on how its disk IO graphs use log-scale bands to make wildly varying th…
Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU
An illustrated article with live WebGL demos showing how to generate real-time Voronoi diagrams on the GPU, with fun var…
Wallace and Gromit Font
A case study by Jamie Clarke Type on Buttered Crumpet, the custom typeface made for Wallace and Gromit, showing the desi…
WebGL Image Processing
A hands-on blog series on image processing algorithms in WebGL, covering color correction, blend modes, thresholding, di…
Weird Tools Made by Small Teams
A long essay and list of strange, beautiful and experimental creative tools by solo developers, with thoughts on buildin…
Welcome to the Land of Children
A Princeton library post on Kodomo no Kuni, the 1920s Japanese children's magazine whose vivid modernist illustrations b…
Welded from Nature: Shota Suzuki
A Kyoto Journal interview with metal artist Shota Suzuki, who hand-forges astonishingly lifelike dandelions, weeds and r…
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