August 5, 2022
3 approaches to solving problems
Appreciate these reminders gleaned from Steve Jobs - 1.) Zoom Out 2.) Focus In 3.) Disconnect

Emma Bers
Dig the life and humanity of Emma’s graphic design. Bonus interview on It’s Nice That: If I’m Not Having Fun I Scrap It.

The Other Forty-Eight States
This joke about Marvel's universe of movies mixed with Sufjan Stevens made me laugh. I doubt it's funny to many.

Pick & Cheese
The world’s first cheese conveyor belt restaurant in the heart of London’s West End. You know, if I ever get to London and see that ABBA show. / via Matt Haughey

Ace Hotel Toronto
Swiped through photos on Uncrate and added this place to the bucket list. More snapshots and insight on dezeen

Customize a Hawaiian shirt with your pet
A convergence of things I appreciate very much

Akinterest
A digital moodboard organized in chapters, and publish a new one whenever the mood strikes by Joshua Blankenship. For when you need some visual vibes in your #moodscrolling #ffffound

August 4, 2022
Right On! A Documentary on Student Protest
AIGA has a solid deep dive (and video thumbing through pages) of this distilling reports of campus protests. David L. Burke's design keeps the vibe of a zine in a paperback format. It's gorgeous.

August 3, 2022
Practice any art…
music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

August 2, 2022
Todd Oldham’s Place in the Poconos
As my friend Thor mentioned when sharing this link, "More is more."

July 29, 2022
An interview with Mike Mills about C’mon C’mon
Just watched this movie (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) and it was soul filling with lovely, quiet performances and emotion. Been trying to devour more about it and this interview helped expand the concepts.

The Future Belongs To What Was As Much As What Is
Colorful typo/graphic gatehouse installation by Morag Myerscough and poet Ellen Moran in northern England

July 18, 2022
Hyundai N Vision 74
I don't think about sports cars too much because I generally couldn't fit in them if I tried, but dang Hyundai's design team is on fire.

July 15, 2022
Italy’s Digital Nomad Visas
Work a year remotely in Italy? That sounds lovely! / via Bernie Michalik

July 14, 2022
Hasbro Selfie Series
It's pricey ($60), but just the fact that it's possible to get a good 3D scan from a phone and get an action figure made is really neato. It'll get cheaper.

July 11, 2022
Cluster SMACS 0723
Looking into space for a moment. More insights at Colossal

Love Every Body
A touching thread and moving last words / via SwissMiss

July 8, 2022
Murf.ai
Text to speech with a AI voice generator. (The pro versions sound particularly good.) / via John Maeda

Cevallos Bros
Hand painted posters. Serving Queens, NY & beyond for 50 years. Their Instagram is a good start but follow it up with this profile in the New Yorker. / thanks Thor!

July 1, 2022
McDonald’s POV: 5 Minutes of Lunch Rush
I thought it was just the algorithm taunting me, but I guess these first hand videos by Stephen Patula are getting around. I find these mesmerizing. Also, living wages should be the thing.

Mndsgn “Truth Interlude”
A bit more of Ardhira Putra's illustration paired with some smooth sounds to close out the week.

Ardhira Putra
It’s Nice That profiles this Jakarta-based illustrator and motion designer and I’m super digging the vibes.

June 30, 2022
Fire from Elements lll movement
Composed by Katerina Gimon. Performed by the 2022 TMEA Texas All-State Treble Choir under the direction of Dr Lynda Hasseler. This is powerful. / thanks Henry

June 29, 2022
Rio Carnaval logo generator
It's fun even if you don't speak Portuguese (microphone access is optional) / via Under Consideration’s review

The photography and words of Ronny Salerno
Used to follow his former blog and delighted to find he activity maintains an expansive personal site. Every section is filled with near endless awesomeness.

Golden Gate Bridge in type
Lovely letterpress print by Cameron Moll coming soon. Pre-orders of the limited edition open now.

June 28, 2022
Perfect Stranger
Mellow, quiet, yearning duet by John Mark Nelson and Sofia Mills (Thanks TikTok)

June 27, 2022
How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID
It's very simple on iOS to bypass biometric authentication and require the passcode.

Craigstarter
A free to use, edit, extend crowdfunding tool for Shopify with multiple goals and variants as campaign tiers by Craig Mod. (Excellent video tutorial to boot!) / via Kevin Kelley's post about The Proprietary Path

The Necessity of Hope
Mariame Kaba reminds us that “hope is a discipline.” It is also a political strategy and a survival mechanism.

June 24, 2022
Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds
“These actions are small, she said, like writing new songs to process old wounds. But maybe they prove more meaningful than submitting to darkness.” Listening now. Thanks Zan

A Trail Tale
Andy Moliski is hiking the Appalachian Trail. With the help of his two brothers he's sharing the journey in real time through an amazing website that defies category. Be sure to check out the journal. / via Things to Click

June 22, 2022
Imaginary Beverage Reviews
"Reviews of products that mostly do not exist..." as Kevin Fanning puts it, "This is so dumb, But maybe it’s not totally dumb?" (but it's also about just writing, you know, for fun.)

10,000 years of branding
Explained in 6 minutes by Debbie Millman. Many favorite moments, including this beautiful stretch: "Branding has become a profound manifestation of the human spirit."

June 21, 2022
Brooke DiDonato’s photography
Immediately smitten with Brooke's calm and warped perspective / thanks SwissMiss

Bernina Express
I saw the photos in this tweet and promptly started researching this panoramic Swiss rail line that goes up into the alps and back down into Italy.

Earth.fm
Explore the map, pick a place and listen to natural soundscapes, learn about the habitat and related charities. / via Dense Discovery

June 20, 2022
Catherine Madden’s woven tapestry
This journey map captures a year of highs and lows in 2020, part of a workshop with Eugene Eric Kim.

Oko
Hypnotic browser/mobile puzzle game using satellite images and a soundtrack from Space Shuttle recordings / by Nadya Suvorova

‘Otomo’ at the Royal Albert Hall
Bonobo close their 5 night residency at the Royal Albert Hall with Anna Lapwood on pipe organ. Her expression of joy is beyond doubt. I can only image how those 9,999 pipes sound irl.

Lego Galaxy Explorer
Agreeing 100% with Greg Storey that I'm here for Lego revisiting classic themes. Related: The upcoming Lion Knight Castle.

ImageOptim
Radically optimize image file sizes with this Mac app or web service. I've used this before but it wasn't until I asked Naz how he got his photographs so wonderfully compressed that it all clicked. Now a tool in my everyday workflow.

June 17, 2022
Canvas Cards
A gallery of card designs created with the HTML Canvas element and JavaScript with editable code to tweak and generate new variants. Created by Luke Patton

Green Mountain Falls Skyspace
A James Turrell installation in Colorado that you have to hike to. #bucketlist / via Michael Sippey

June 16, 2022
8 photography principles of Jim Marsden
Actually this list isn't about photography, it's about seeing and being / thanks Sean

June 15, 2022
Best colors for resale value of a vehicle
They're brighter than you think (yellow?! orange!). I chuckled at the new to me term "The German Rainbow"

The expanded San Francisco font family
The base type for Apple OS gets more expressive style widths with a great overview of how and why to use each. / via Merlin who says "This man has amazing hair"

June 11, 2022
What do you want to add?
MetroCard top off / existential crisis

June 10, 2022
Don’t just write words
Write music.

Insprial web
Nathan Friend brought Spirograph to the browser (and an app). / via Sidebar

June 9, 2022
Collective
Back-office for a Business-of-One, including company formation, tax, accounting and bookkeeping services. Not available in Ohio yet, but this looks v promising. / via Erik

June 8, 2022
pocket operator
Teenage Engineering created a pocket operator app to sequence sound and video (for Google Pixel phones). No real idea what this does, but I love their approach to interface design.

June 6, 2022
AR Art Projector
App that blends an image on your phone with video of your pencil / paintbrush to draw. Once set, you can even zoom around. Fascinating. Da Vinci Eye has another app for murals too.

Prompts plus powerful AI
Two examples show another approach of how tools like Dall•E can generate imagery

June 3, 2022
New Commute
Always looking for new music and super enjoying the singles and playlists of New Commute thanks to posts by Wolf Bomb

What people think pride is…
vs. what pride actually is. An expanded notion by Jess Bird

Asking AI to generate some logos
Janelle Shane's AI Weirdness blog is great. This particular post makes me wondering about job security.

June 2, 2022
The first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade
Held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. / via Nayland Blake
