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The Evolution Of The Virgin Logo
We all know the Virgin logo: a blobby diagonal scrawl in scarlet that looks like a hot girl's phone number written in lipstick on the back of a napkin. But the so-called 'napkin' logo wasn't actually...
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Apple Releases Its Most Important Typeface In 20 Years
Yesterday, Apple released a new bundle of developer tools called WatchKit to help make third-party Apple Watch apps a reality. But for type lovers, WatchKit contained a nice little surprise: a folder...
View ArticleThis Parody App Deletes Itself After 24 Hours
Alex Cornell doesn't design apps. Not really. As the founder of the San Francisco-based creative studio Moonbase, Cornell designs app concepts that use mischief, subterfuge, and parody to critique the...
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License Plates From The 50 States, Redesigned
Today's license plates seem like they're in a contest to cram as much gross design and dumb patriotism onto a 6-inch-by-12-inch metal plate as possible. But the license plates of yore? They had class....
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A Cardboard Mask That Teleports Your Eyes To Your Belly Button
In the entire body of medical literature, there has never been a recorded case of a person with a functional set of eyes in their stomach. Or on the back of their heads. Or extended on stalks three...
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Apple's "Pirates Of Silicon Valley" Flag Gets Rehoisted
One of the most definitive and defiant pieces of counterculture art to ever come out of Silicon Valley is now available for purchase. Susan Kare—the designer behind all of the Mac's beloved early...
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The Sony Logo That Never Was
Except for some subtle refinements, Japanese electronics maker Sony has had the same logo since 1956. But to celebrate the company's 35th anniversary in 1981, someone at Sony had a brilliant idea:...
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Canadian Designer Beats Nike To The Punch Making Self-Lacing Sneakers A Reality
Self-lacing sneakers have been a dream ever since Marty McFly pulled on a pair of futuristic Nikes in Back to the Future II, but they've never come to market despite the promises of Nike design guru...
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The Perfect High-Tech Carry-On Has No Zipper At All
Zippers are the worst part of carry-ons. They jam. They break. And if you're using a soft bag, they encourage you to overpack, which makes it nigh-impossible to quickly and easily open your bag to get...
View ArticleA Pregnancy Calendar That Grows With A Mother's Belly
For expectant mothers, there can be a disconnect between what is happening to their pregnant bodies on the outside, and what is happening with the baby on the inside. To help these mothers learn about...
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Ideo Perfectly Predicted The Future Of Google In 2003
Back in 2003, six years after the Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, and a year before it first became publicly traded, Wired magazine asked four designers, including the likes of Shepherd...
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If You Prefer Drawing Instead Of Typing, This iPhone Keyboard Is For You
DrawType Keyboard is a new keyboard for iOS 8 with a very simple premise: like Draw Something meets Swype, it turns the bottom half of your screen into a virtual whiteboard. Anything you can draw, you...
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The Semantics Of Color, Visualized
Do people view color differently based on language? This beautiful visualization by Muyueh Lee tries to get a handle on the semantics of color by using the Chinese and English versions of Wikipedia as...
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How Uber Is Making One Design Firm's Life A Living Hell
Uber has its fair share of problems right now. The CEO allegedly said that Uber should be called Boober for its ability to get him laid. The upper management can spy on the trips of its users with a...
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How Emoji Is Changing Text As We Know It
Last month, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text is coded into computer-readable language, published a new draft proposal that outlined not just the addition of 37 new emoji...
View ArticleA Drone's-Eye View Of Ghostly Ruins In Chernobyl
Twenty-eight years after the catastrophic nuclear accident in Chernobyl, the city of Priyapat is still abandoned, eerily decaying into the irradiated landscape of the beautiful but ghostly Chernobyl...
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What Every Young Designer Should Know, From Legendary Apple Designer Susan Kare
If you're reading this on a computer, you owe a debt to Susan Kare, the pioneering designer behind the original Macintosh's icons and the first digital typefaces like Chicago, which proved that...
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A Comic Sans For Hipsters
"Comic Sans used to be funny to designers, but it's been corrupted by 'The Man.'" So begins the Comic Spurs manifesto, a creation of the James H. Goldberg Deskwear Collection that aims to rehabilitate...
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What Google.com Would Look Like With A Material Design Revamp
Arguably, there's no better example of efficient web design than the Google homepage. Every little design tweak goes through rigorous A/B testing, and yet the homepage does not look fundamentally...
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In Defense Of The New "Star Wars" Lightsaber
In the new trailer for J.J. Abrams's forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a shadowy, hooded figure (rumored to be played by Girls's Adam Driver) walks into the snowy woods at night and flicks on a...
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