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How Steve Jobs Almost Put A Little Man In Every Mac
In February, 1982, a manic Steve Jobs bounded into the office of Andy Hertzfeld, the primary software architect of Apple's top-secret next gen computer, the Mac (which celebrates its 30th birthday...
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Microsoft Creates A 20-Gigapixel "Where's Waldo?" Of Seattle
On a blustery day in October last year, a team of computer vision scientists from the Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group huddled together on a rooftop beneath the Space Needle. They were...
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22 Animated GIFs That Are Up For Their Own Version Of The Oscars
If the ultimate signifier of a medium's acceptance into popular culture is a lavish awards ceremony, then the animated GIF has finally arrived. They're called the .GIFYs -- it stands for GIF of the...
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A Junkyard Typewriter That Turns Words Into Music
Meet D.O.R.T.H.E. She's a junkyard jukebox that turns words into music. And yes, her creators know that she looks like a computer built by Depression-era hobos. Heck, they're proud of it, because they...
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CMYK Cards Let You Play Texas Hold 'Em With Color
Forget about playing the A (ace), the J (jack), the Q (queen) or the K (king). Consider playing the C (cyan), the M (magenta), the Y (yellow), or the K (key, or black) instead, with this gorgeously...
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What Middle-Earth Would Look Like From Space
In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, British author J.R.R. Tolkien created a fantasy world called Middle-Earth for his dragons, elves, dwarves, and wizards to inhabit, but he only ever rendered it...
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Celebrities Turned Into "Star Wars" Action Figures
Artist Mike Leavitt is literally a Star Wars kid. He was born in 1977, the same year A New Hope was released, and his parents got divorced in 1980, the year of The Empire Strikes Back. Like many kids...
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Why Visa Is Sick Of Gold
Visa has unveiled a new design for its corporate word mark, dropping the color gold from the design entirely for the first time. This might seem like an arbitrary corporate tinkering at first, but...
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Coen Brothers Movies Reimagined As Gig Posters
The Coen Brothers' latest movie Inside Llewyn Davis celebrates the Greenwich Music scene in the early 1960s through the eyes of a struggling folk singer. The film inspired Little White Lies, an...
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How A Kid Grew Up To Design The Alien UIs Of "Star Wars"
When he was just a boy, Noel Rubin, now 44, spent much of his time daydreaming about outer space, advanced technology, and alien worlds. He filled books with doodles of moon bases and exotic digital...
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What Kind Of Design Zombie Are You?
In the horror mythos, zombies are the slavering, flesh-hungry undead, but the word "zombie" is also often used to metaphorically describe anyone who is slavishly and unthinkingly obsessed with...
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Paper, The Opening Sentence In Facebook's 10-Year Plan
Mobile design has always been something of a sore spot for Facebook. The social network has never quite figured out how to dominate our consciousness on smartphones beside apps like Twitter, Snapchat,...
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Subway Maps Designed To Reflect A City's Soul
There's a delicate art and sweet science to making a great subway map. The maps need to be geographically relatable, yet quick to visually process. Local charm, however, is not usually a design...
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A Hypnotic Visualization Of The Polar Vortex From Space
Here on terrestrial Earth, the polar vortex is making all of our lives miserable, from frostbite-inducing chills in the North, to snow and ice blanketing Florida, to drivers in Atlanta getting stuck in...
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What An Entire Planet Made Out Of Lego Buildings Would Look Like
Google owes something of a debt to Lego. The storage assembly used to stash Larry Page and Sergey Brin's search engine algorithms in 1996 were actually kept in a a home-made case made out of Lego...
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The Pattern Library: A Great New Resource For Designers (And Wannabes)
Repeating patterns are useful things. Whether you need a cool wallpaper for your desktop or smartphone, a texture to incorporate into your own design, or even just something you can print out on the...
View ArticleDesign Director Kate Aronowitz To Leave Facebook
After five years as Facebook's director of design, Kate Aronowitz has announced that she will soon be leaving the company."Goodbyes are always hard, but I wanted to let everyone know that I will be...
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IBM's Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots
Using some of the same technologies that allowed the Watson natural language supercomputer to conquer Jeopardy, IBM's next step: Psychic artificial intelligences that read your Twitter feed and can...
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How Adobe Solved The Biggest Problem In Digital Font Design
Back in the late 1970s, computer scientists working on the first laser printer discovered they had a problem: how do you scale a digital font without making it look terrible at low resolutions? You...
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How Geographically Accurate Is Your City's Subway Map?
There's more going on in a subway map than just tracing lines through stops. The most important quality of a transit map is that it be easily legible, even when glanced across a crowded rush-hour car....
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