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Firefly Animated

Peak TV means you can have more of almost anything you’ve ever watched before. How about salvaging a poorly reviewed,…

How Japan Keeps Physical Media Relevant

Japan has more brick and mortar music stores than anywhere else in the world, reports Quartz in this fascinating article.…

Looking for Beta Testers for Handlr

Last year, in this blog post, I mentioned in passing a macOS utility that my friend Scott Ostler and I…

Straight Line Photos

My favorite photo utility on my phone is SKRWT, which I think is meant to be pronounced as “square it”…

Super Recognizers and Visual Acuity

This is a fascinating article at The New Yorker by Patric Radden Keefe about a unique team of police at…

Taking CarPlay for a Spin

Earlier this year I bought a 2016 Kia Sorento. It was a great deal for a car rife with luxury…

Graphic Means, A Documentary About Graphic Design Production

This looks like an entertaining if esoteric documentary from director and producer Briar Levit, who is also a professional graphic…

The Forgotten Art of Hand Colored Photographs

This short documentary spotlights Grace Rawson, an 83-year old New Zealander who, in her youth in the 1950s, worked as…

The Underestimated Merits of Copying Someone Else’s Work

Designer Jose Bento wrote in this Medium post about his experience re-creating the InVision user interface, detail by detail, including…

Star Trek Stamps Are Coming

The venerable “Star Trek” franchise turns fifty this September. To commemorate, The U.S. Postal Service will be issuing these four…