Tagged “design-history”
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Social History of the Cardboard Box
A richly illustrated essay from Places Journal tracing the cardboard box through consumer culture, design, shipping and…
Suwar
A visual essay on how the SWANA region and the Arab world shaped today's visual culture, from typography to imagery over…
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
A 20-minute history of how Tombow and other Japanese makers raced to build the world's best pencils from 1952 to 1967, w…
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A lovingly illustrated essay about the segmented lettering on New York signage, with interactive type specimens and a de…
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Art & Design
The hotel bathroom puzzle
Alec Nevala-Lee revisits a famous design puzzle from Henry Petroski about hotel bathrooms and uses it to explore why eve…
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Art & Design
The Mad Men of Mid-Century Modern Design
A photo-led post built around the 1961 Playboy portrait of Nelson, Wormley, Saarinen, Bertoia, Eames and Risom posing wi…
The Making of Prince's Symbol
Animator Dale Hughes recounts building Prince's love symbol as 1990s 3D computer graphics, with sketches, renders, album…
The Most Mario Colors
A designer digs into the colors that define Mario across decades of games, showing the palette swatches and explaining w…
The Shape of Apps
Icon designer Louie Mantia traces how Mac app icons lost their distinctive silhouettes to uniform rounded squares, and w…
TypeOff
Notes about type from typography teacher and design historian Dan Reynolds, covering lettering, typefaces, and type hist…
Type-Writer.org
A site celebrating the typewriter, the writing machine, for collectors and admirers of its history, design and mechanica…
Version Museum
A huge gallery of original screenshots showing how favorite websites, operating systems, applications and games looked i…
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…
Women in Type
A research project uncovering the women behind famous 20th-century typefaces, with archive stories, explorable records a…
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