Category: Design
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This Years Model
There’s a new AI model that can render photorealistic people and products, including text and logos. Geisha With Walkman is something I tried to draw 40 years ago, but my rendering skills were simply too…
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My weekend project
By controlling what I listen to, and the order in which I listen, I’m slowly designing an infinite collage of my evolving musical tastes.
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Valediction.
What a ride that was.
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How to Join Blue Beanie Day: Wear and Share!
Saturday, 30 November 2024, marks the 17th annual Blue Beanie Day celebration. It’s hard to believe, but web standards fan Douglas Vos conceived of this holiday way back in ’07: The origin of the name…
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Web Design Inspiration
If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites.
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What happened to the Share button in Zoom?
Zoom has always included a clickable button/badge at the top left of its primary meeting interface window. Click the badge to copy the URL of that meeting. You can then, with just one more click…
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One weird trick
Help to help, because we’re built to help.
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This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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For love of pixels
Stroll with us down memory lane as we celebrate the pearl anniversary of pixel art creation’s primary progenitor, and some of the many artists and design languages it inspired.
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The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.
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“Where the people are”
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Just add water.
Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas),…
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A Death at Walmart
At age 38, Janikka Perry died of a heart attack at work, on her bakery shift at Walmart in North Little Rock, Arkansas, but you will not find her … A Death at Walmart
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Knowledge Management for the win
Knowledge management (KM) is the process of organizing, creating, using, and sharing collective knowledge within an organization. Unlock and unblock For companies, institutions, and projects struggling to become more efficient and productive—and who these days is…
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Fly, my designers, fly!
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re…