The American Revolution Bicentennial Guidelines

Do Cornelissen

“Advertising creatives have particularly well honed habits when it comes to the production of interesting ideas. They do it on demand. For money. They know, more than almost anyone else, that you can’t rely on inspiration. So they collect and collect and collect. Images, photography, illustrative styles, bits of type, overheard speech, fragments of idea, other ads, anything that grabs their eye. None of it with any real purpose other than one day it’ll come in handy. (And this is one place where the industry's reputation for kleptomania comes from.)”

Are rebrands starting to look the same? The challenges defining commercial design

“…it’s then easier for larger studios to encourage more tent-pole clients to utilise those same motifs. The process is arguably less a case of direct plagiarism than an example of a slow trickle-down effect – almost akin to aesthetic gentrification”

“Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive in makes it a better place to live”

‎People I (Mostly) Admire: 114. Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Life?

The Imperfectionist: Who's in charge around here?

“...if you’re waiting for some outside authority to give their stamp of approval to what you’re doing with your life—if you’re telling yourself things will only be truly OK once they’ve done so—then you’ll be waiting a long time. And even if they were to give it, it wouldn’t be worth getting.”

New ways to build and farm

23 min in: urban farming as productive climate action. “Food growing architecture” as a design discipline.

How to Make Greens Last Longer | Cook's Illustrated

We need the right kind of climate optimism

How to Be Happier Without Really Trying - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

via Brad Frost.

The Imperfectionist: Lists are menus

Now I know why I gravitate towards hand-written notes: they’re menus to choose from rather than a list to get through.

Should I add these features to Arc browser? (internal prototypes) - YouTube

100% agree with the ethos of this video.

Palestinian embroidery, called tatreez, is a centuries-old tradition. Digital preservation efforts, like a database called Tirazain, could help preserve it for the future.

Fluid Responsive Design | Utopia

A much more sensible (and easier) way to set layout for the web.

‎Search Engine: Does anyone actually like their job?

Yes, if it’s not work. Meat and potatoes at 28:40.

Opinion | Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings

Lovely brand identity work by Order.

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The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100

Opinion | Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.

Watch Amateurs Race Against the Tour de France’s Top Climbers (Sort Of)

Even the simplest data vis can help tell a story.

The Art of Wandering While Traveling - The New York Times

Your “first care must be to ignore the very dream of haste, walking everywhere very slowly and very much at random,”

GRID WORLD by Alexander Miller