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How to Make a Living as an Artist
A long, candid essay by the artist fnnch on how to earn a living from art, covering pricing, audiences, products and the…
How to Make Full Colour PCB Art
A write-up of the ideas, pitfalls, and finally working method for adding full colour art to circuit boards, from the Pix…
How to Pick More Beautiful Data Visualization Colors
A practical, well illustrated guide to choosing chart colors that look good and read clearly, with palettes, examples an…
How To Plant A Meme
Artist Joshua Citarella describes a secret 18-month project to infiltrate radical online Gen Z communities and nudge the…
How to Put More Character Into Your NPCs
A Pause Button essay in which Geoffrey Golden explores narrative design and how to give non-player characters life and p…
How We Animated Trillions of Tons of Flowing Ice
A graphics editor explains how he animated the slow crawl of Antarctica's ice sheet using an old video game color-cyclin…
HTML Can Do That
A reference page listing dynamic functionality that modern HTML can now handle on its own, much of which used to require…
I hired an illustrator to draw my house
A charming project story of commissioning an illustrator to draw a family home, then turning the art into a living Home…
I Just Chose Words Carefully
A short piece on a 30-page monospaced guide whose words were chosen so that every line hits the exact line length, a fea…
I Made a 3D SVG Renderer That Projects Textures
A write-up on building a 3D renderer in pure SVG that fakes perspective with affine transformations, projecting textures…
I Made a Camera Lens with an Iceberg
A photographer carves a working camera lens out of Icelandic glacier ice and shoots portraits with it before it melts, w…
I Made a Chair
A beginner's cheerful account of designing and building a wooden chair by hand, with the mistakes, lessons and small tri…
I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
A maker documents turning the Lego Game Boy set into a functioning handheld, fitting real electronics inside the brick m…
Immersive Quarries
An essay by Marie Foulston tracing why the 2010s were flooded with near-identical immersive Van Gogh projection shows, f…
In Praise of the Botched Potato Christ
Elephant magazine looks back at Cecilia Gimenez's infamous restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco in Borja, Spain, and how…
in transitu
A performative photography project by Ada Ada Ada probing how artificial intelligence classifies gender and nipples, wit…
Inami, the City of Wood Carving
A guide to Inami in Toyama, a small Japanese town of wood-carving workshops whose craftsmen decorate the elaborate Zuise…
Indigo: Plant of Culture and Color
Cornell Botanic Gardens explores indigo, the plant behind blue dye, and the skill and resilience of enslaved Africans an…
Infinite Cities with Wave Function Collapse
A blog article explaining how the Wave Function Collapse algorithm generates an infinite procedural city, with the autho…
Inhabitat
A design magazine covering green architecture and sustainable urban innovation, from eco-friendly buildings to clever ci…
Inria Identity Font
A case study of Inria Sans and Inria Serif, the open-source type family Black Foundry designed to carry the identity of…
Instructables
A community site where makers share do-it-yourself projects with step-by-step instructions across circuits, craft, cooki…
Inter Alternatives: How to Choose a UI Font
An article on choosing a UI font beyond Inter, covering cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height as criteria, p…
Interactive and Participatory Art
An Art21 essay tracing participatory art from Allan Kaprow's happenings to Antony Gormley's One & Other, where audiences…
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