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Movies Watched So Far in 2016

In spite of how good television has become, I still find it’s rare to find a show where every episode…

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Is The Boston Globe Doing Enough with Spotlight’s Oscar Win?

Though I was really rooting for “Mad Max: Fury Road,” I can’t be unhappy that Tom McCarthy’s sublimely well crafted…

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Fire Chasers

Film and photo artist Jeff Frost captured tons of horrifyingly beautiful footage of forest fires raging in California for his…

A Letter to Slack

Designer Samuel Hulick penned this humorous but substantive “breakup letter” with Slack. He argues that where its early promise to…

The Never-ending Film Title

I’ve been using Letterboxd more actively for some months; you can follow along with my film diary here. It’s a…

Why Bother Making Beautiful Team Pages?

The talented, Portland-based design agency Instrument launched a new web site for itself this week. It’s nice enough, but what…

My Talk at Design Driven NYC

Venture firm FirstMark Capital, which happens to be located just a floor below Adobe on Fifth Avenue in New York…

Privacy Domes for Open Plan Offices

Tomoko is a line of cone of silence-type contraptions made from felt. They hang like a floor lamp so that…

Vector Networks in Figma

New design tool Figma (currently in private beta) is earning plaudits for creating a robust, commercially viable UX/UI design application…

Logos for 2024 Olympic Bids

Here are the official logos for three of the four candidate cities vying to host the 2024 Olympic Games; the…