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Design Tools Survey Preliminary Findings

Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate in my Design Tools Survey over the past nine days. Today I closed the survey, but not before logging answers from literally thousands of people. What a fantastic response. Now comes the hard part: I’ll be taking the next few weeks to parse the results and…

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Patrick Vale’s Drawings of Architecture from Very High Up

This is a time-lapse video of artist Patrick Vale drawing, by hand, the view from the top of a skyscraper in New York City. The intricate rendering—and the stamina required to execute it with consistency—is breathtaking. A detail of the piece, which Vale created last December, is below. Vale seems to have an affinity for…

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Emory Douglas: The Art of the Black Panthers

This short film produced by New York design studio Dresscode profiles the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party, Emory Douglas. He was the art director of the party’s official newspaper (which reportedly earned him a spot on the FBI’s Agitator Index) and talks about the scrappy methods they used to…

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A Motion Graphic Experiment in Keynote

Designer and developer Linda Dong created this amusing and surprisingly sprightly motion graphic entirely within Apple’s Keynote presentation software. She says: I’ve always been a huge advocate of using Keynote for basic prototyping because there are a lot of great animation/drawing goodies hidden in this app and it’s so easy to set a scene up.…

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iPhones, from Original to 6

Product review site Gadgetlove.com produced this great little illustration of how the iPhone’s form factor has changed since its debut. Though the latest model, the iPhone 6, is significantly changed from its ancestor, it’s apparent from this animation that in many ways it’s still the same device. The more things change, the more they stay…

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iPad and iOS 9

In case you missed it today, between awkward speechifying from the likes of Drake and awkward grooving from the likes of Eddie Cue, Apple’s 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote included mention of a number of new, iPad-specific features as part of the forthcoming iOS 9. A few of them, like picture-in-picture support for video players,…

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Sea Is for Cookie

This mashup of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster and Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s famous painting “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” originated on Reddit two years ago but I’m just seeing it now, thanks to my wife. It cracked me up immensely and seemed as good of a way to start a Monday as any. You can…

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Pizza Hut Projector Box

I hesitated to post this because I hate the insidious nature of its wasteful, pointless marketing agenda. Still, I admit there is some cleverness in the way that advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather have redesigned the standard cardboard pizza box to work as a MacGyver-ized video projector. The box has an extra compartment with a…

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Time-lapse Video of One World Trade Center

This mesmerizing, two-minute time-lapse video captures the construction of One World Trade Center over eleven painful, politically intractable years. Produced by the company EarthCam, it seems like a marvel of meticulous, patient shot-planning; because the sheer mass of its subject changes so dramatically, the camera must pan to accommodate the construction’s progress slowly, over the…

Azote

Type designer Thomas Jockin designed this typeface based on the famous multi-line graphics of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. To be clear, Azote is not a direct revival of that event’s typography but rather takes inspiration from the same multi-line concept; as fonts in the Azote family get heavier, the thickness is…