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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…

tiramisu.bearblog.dev Article

Why I Use Cheap Notebooks

A short, charming personal essay on ditching precious Moleskines for cheap notebooks so you can scribble freely, make mi…

orwellfoundation.com Article

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…

artnome.com Article

Why Love Generative Art?

A richly illustrated essay on generative art, tracing it from early plotter pioneers like Frieder Nake to today's coders…

bethmathews.substack.com Article

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…

twistedsifter.com Article

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…

designforhackers.com Article

Why You Hate Comic Sans

An essay on why Comic Sans draws so much scorn, looking at the child-like handwriting font's infamy and the movement bui…

whygodwhy.com Website

Whygodwhy

A personal site with an unapologetically messy attitude, mixing art, personal posts and pop culture under the tagline id…

wickeditor.com Interactive

Wick Editor

A free open-source tool combining an animation timeline with coding, letting anyone create animations, games, and intera…

eyelette.itch.io Interactive

Wicked Aspect

A dollmaker toy where you build your very own cursed knight, or just a normal knight if you prefer. Made with the Godot…

draconicchipmunk.itch.io Game

Wide Island

An experimental text-based piece of interactive fiction that plays in the browser, a short and strange story you read an…

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wifart gallery

A free Wi-Fi network in Dalston Square that asks people for a drawing instead of a password; the site exhibits the doodl…

unbehagen.com Website

WiFi-SM

A satirical art project presenting a device that delivers a small electric jolt whenever a disaster hits the news, so it…

internet-janitor.itch.io Interactive

Wigglypaint

A juicy, jiggly drawing program by Internet Janitor in which your sketches wiggle with animated outlines, usable right i…

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WikiArt

A vast visual encyclopedia of fine art with hundreds of thousands of paintings browsable by artist, movement, genre and…

wikiart.org Website

WikiArt

A visual encyclopedia of fine art with hundreds of thousands of works searchable by artist, style and era.

wikihouse.cc Website

WikiHouse

An open-source, digitally manufactured building system for simple zero-carbon homes, with downloadable guides, case stud…

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Wikimedia Commons

A free repository of over 140 million images, videos, sounds, and other media files anyone can use and contribute to.

jakedowsmith.com Interactive

Wikipedia Rectangles

Click a rectangle and it splits in two, each half filled with a random Wikipedia image, so the screen becomes an ever-fi…

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Wild Bread

A photography journal of bread found discarded in public, with photos organized by year, each captioned with the date an…

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Wild Macro

Timothy Boomer's image library of slime molds, mushrooms, plant galls and California wildflowers, photographed up close…

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Wild Memory Radio

Thirty creatives including Laurie Anderson, Rick Owens and Gilbert and George share short audio memories of places that…

wildozark.com Website

Wild Ozark

A blog by an Arkansas nature artist about life in the woods, smashing rocks, making paint, and creating earthy fine art…

hypervariety.com Interactive

WildCard

A browser recreation of HyperCard where you flip through stacks of cards with buttons, fields and scripts, build your ow…

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