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September 17, 2021 at 12:00 AM

IBM Perfected the Art of the Anti-corporate Corporate Poster

During the mid-twentieth century, perhaps no other American company exemplified technological achievement, business acumen, and good design better than IBM. Major advancements in data processing and mainframe computing brought forth an unprecedented investment in R&D within the company that prov

eyeondesign.aiga.org

September 17, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

jeremiahlee.com

September 13, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Milton Glaser’s iconic 9/11 poster is now helping New Yorkers emerge from the pandemic

Previously unpublished sketches hint at the legendary graphic designer's thought process immediately after the atrocity in his hometown.

qz.com

August 11, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity

The 1964 Summer Games were seminal in cementing Japan’s post-war identity and the design of everything from pictograms to posters to uniforms – a modernist vision championed by Kamekura – played a massive role in making such a remarkable event.

itsnicethat.com

June 10, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come into existence – urbanists often look at infrastructure. Looking closely at the roads, railways, sewers, electricity lines and rivers that run through a place can often uncover some essential

eyeondesign.aiga.org

May 22, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Analysis | Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It — The Wall Street Journal

As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market

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March 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Neville Brody on Navigating the Shifting Identity of Graphic Design

Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry that others would take hours to delineate. As one of the best-known graphic designer since the 1980s, he's adept at this sort of thing. Even those who haven’t heard h

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January 9, 2021 at 12:00 AM

A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard

Plus: Dorsey in the Trump administration's early days, how to define privacy, and chaos in the Capitol.

wired.com

December 27, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Is Social Media Good For Anything At All?

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier saw the evils of social media platforms before anyone else. Now he talks about whether Twitter activism really works, how to fix Facebook, and why he won't be joining Silicon Valley's overlords in New Zealand.

gq.com

December 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Review of the Year 2020: Top 25 Graphic Design

We take a look at the most popular graphic design articles of the last year, from industry icons to the discipline’s most recent graduates.

itsnicethat.com

December 22, 2020 at 12:00 AM

The Queen's Gambit

Designer Saskia Marka and physicist-turned-animator Dave Whyte discuss their work for Netflix hit The Queens Gambit

artofthetitle.com

December 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM

2019 Design Tools Survey

See the most popular tools used by over 3,000 designers based on this annual survey.

uxtools.co

December 12, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant

Intel Corp., once the dominant designer and manufacturer of microchips at the core of nearly all personal and cloud computing, has for years been losing ground to competitors. Hardly a ragtag bunch, the opposition now includes trillion-dollar companies alongside countless startups, and it’s well on its way to wrecking Intel’s hegemony.

wsj.com

December 10, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Joe Biden’s Branding Was Both Traditional and Trippy, and It Looks Like the Future of Politics

When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social media strategy. Throughout the campaign, Ossoff’s Instagram account posted screenshots of his tweets set against a dark navy background, but a few weeks after Election Day, the screens

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December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Some design principles are universal

When I started in UX design, I often wondered how seemingly even decent designers knew the reasoning and techniques behind good design…

uxdesign.cc

December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

The Rotting of the Republican Mind

When one party becomes detached from reality.

nytimes.com

December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Title slide with black background reading ‘100 design lessons for 2021’ and ‘The State of UX’ in small text above.

The State of UX in 2021 – UX Trends

A holistic analysis of UX Design as a discipline: tools and methods, how we collaborate, design career challenges, books, articles, events, and how our community is organizing in preparation for 2021.

trends.uxdesign.cc

November 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Glassmorphism in user interfaces

Another year, another UI trend is becoming increasingly popular among designers. Do you know it yet?

uxdesign.cc

November 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM

TO CREATE A BETTER SOCIETY

Design is a powerful force that shapes culture and it is a professional activity that is beneficial for both community and business alike. This blog is for all those who are interested in exploring these wider manifestations of design as a critical human activity and would like to shape its a

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November 21, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is improving at a startling pace.

nytimes.com

November 19, 2020 at 12:00 AM

App Store Small Business Program Will Reduce Commission to 15 Percent for Developers Earning up to $1 Million Per Year

Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-store-small-business-program/

daringfireball.net

November 19, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Revisiting Enzo Mari, the Design Maverick Who Left a Clear Message to Today’s Designers

Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home. As with all former architecture and design students in Milan, I considered Mari a founding figure, a mythological man who set the basis of a specific approach to design, something every student at the Poli

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November 19, 2020 at 12:00 AM

The United States of America: Can this brand be saved?

There has always been a divide between the myth and the reality, the cracks between them have just became more exposed.

fastcompany.com

November 19, 2020 at 12:00 AM

We design maps for a living. Here’s who got the 2020 election right

Every election season, maps and charts take center stage on major news outlets and across social media. The public is hungry for numbers and understanding, and data visualizers and cartographers race to produce their best work under tight deadlines, adapting familiar tropes to keep up with unpredictable and fast-moving developments.

fastcompany.com

November 18, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st

A substantial change to Apple’s longstanding App Store cut.

theverge.com