Rubber Stamps

By: John Smith | 8 Apr 2015

Technology, for all its virtues, has put a barrier between humans and what we make with our hands. For centuries, creating beautiful typography required chiseling tiny…

Best in Small Business Branding

By: John Smith | 8 Apr 2015

In the foreword to the gorgeous new book Start Me Up!: New Branding for Businesses, from Gestalten, designer Anna Sinofzika mentions of the idea of a…

Retrograde (Finn Pilly Edit)

By: John Smith | 7 Apr 2015

This is the future of architecture. Or, at least, it’s one of the many provocative glimpses Marc Kushner, co-founder of design studio HWKN and the well-known…

Saje and Take Care of You

By: John Smith | 7 Apr 2015

Five years later, that show, “Bad Dads,” has blossomed into an annual event hosted at Spoke. Wes Anderson himself even commissioned one of its contributors,Richard…

The Adventure of Life in 4K

By: John Smith | 7 Apr 2015

I think you’ll agree that storytelling on the iPad has never been this much fun. According to iTunes release notes, Adobe created Voice to help…

Zakynthos Treasures Timelapse Film

By: John Smith | 7 Apr 2015

“Treasures of Zakynthos” is a film completed in its entirety using the timelapse cinematography technique in the most beautiful parts of the Greek island –…

Steinway’s New Piano

By: John Smith | 6 Apr 2015

THE BLACK AND white keys move so fast it’s hard to tell if Jenny Lin is even touching them. Lin, a classical pianist known for…

Adobe’s New Brainstorming App

By: John Smith | 6 Apr 2015

THE LAST TIME we saw  Comp CC, the newest tool in Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, it was called LayUp, and creator Khoi Vinh had just demoed it…

Buildings That Show the Future

By: John Smith | 7 Apr 2015

FIVE YEARS AGO, a group of Spanish architects dug a hole on a mountainside in Laxe, Spain. They filled it with hay, covered it in…

Paul the Visionary Man Showed Us That Design Matters

By: John Smith | 6 Apr 2015

IN 1986, STEVE Jobs was a guy trying to launch a start-up. Having been ousted from Apple the year before, he and a small band of employees were in the early stages of building a new computer company called Next. Jobs had invested millions in the venture, and his reputation as a visionary business leader was staked on its success. The group was still working out key details about its products. But Jobs was certain about one…

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