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Wes Anderson and Jacques Henri Lartigue
A side-by-side look at the photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue that appear in Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, tracing a…
What does lorem ipsum dolor mean?
An entry from the old comp.fonts Usenet FAQ explaining that the lorem ipsum filler text comes from a scrambled passage o…
What Happened to Movie Taglines?
A naming expert looks at why movie taglines used to be memorable and quotable and how they became wordy, redundant and b…
What is HDR, anyway?
A clear, illustrated explainer from the Halide camera team on what HDR actually means, why photos and screens confuse pe…
What Is the Demoscene?
An interview with Filipe Cruz about the demoscene, the obscure subculture of programmers and artists making real-time au…
What I've learned about flow fields so far
A practical, illustrated guide to making generative art with flow fields, showing how noise functions and a little trigo…
What the White House Could Have Looked Like
A visual look at rejected designs for the White House, showing the grand, odd, and forgotten alternatives architects pro…
What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
A personal look at why the Windows 2000 interface felt so good, from its crisp beveled controls and consistent behavior…
What's Trending in Type - Typewolf
A typography resource that showcases real-world font pairings on well-designed websites and recommends typefaces for des…
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When Alice Cooper met Salvador Dali
The odd story of how shock-rocker Alice Cooper and surrealist Salvador Dali spent two weeks in 1973 making the first rot…
When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver
Bruce Tognazzini's classic case study of how confusing cockpit controls contributed to the crash that killed John Denver…
When Kylie Minogue Was a Font
Whitney Mallett digs into German Bold Italic, a 1997 Towa Tei song featuring Kylie Minogue and named after a typeface, a…
When Looking Became Seeing
An essay on John Berger's Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC series that changed how a generation looked at art, advertising a…
Whimsies - Brilliantly Beaded
An online Hudson Museum exhibit on beaded whimsies, the glittering pincushions and souvenirs Mohawk and Tuscarora artist…
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A tongue-in-cheek design essay comparing the soft radial logos of AI companies and asking why they all resemble the same…
Why Do Ballet Dancers Turn Clockwise?
A ballet fan digs into a curious pattern: most ballet dancers spin clockwise while figure skaters, gymnasts and divers r…
Why Do Everyone's Logo Fonts Look the Same?
A look at how clean sans-serif typefaces took over brand logos, tracing the design trends, screens and business pressure…
Why Don't We Use Awnings Anymore
An architecture history piece asking why window awnings covered nearly every building before the 1950s and what replaced…
Why Edge Detection Doesn't Explain Line Drawing
A researcher argues that line drawings are not simply traced edges, with examples from art and vision science that chall…
Why I Use Cheap Notebooks
A short, charming personal essay on ditching precious Moleskines for cheap notebooks so you can scribble freely, make mi…
Why I Write
George Orwell's 1946 essay on his four motives for writing and how he set out to turn political writing into an art, in…
Why Love Generative Art?
A richly illustrated essay on generative art, tracing it from early plotter pioneers like Frieder Nake to today's coders…
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
An explainer on the color theory and industrial psychology behind the pale seafoam green used in control rooms and facto…
Why Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks
An explainer on crinkle crankle walls, the serpentine garden walls popular in England that are stronger and use fewer br…
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