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Christopher Butler
Screens Are Good, Actually A screen isn’t a technological distraction to overcome but a powerful cognitive prosthetic for...
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A screen isn’t a technological distraction to overcome but a powerful cognitive prosthetic for external memory. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of destroying attention spans, ruining sleep, enabling addiction, isolating us from one another, and eroding...
The personal website...
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been...
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over a year ago
Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing just that. Quirke describes the many shortcomings of modern design: architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and interior design have all been...
Retail Design Blog
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn...
9 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Huckletree Bishopsgate Coworking Offices by Loop Interiors Loop Interiors reimagined the modern workspace at Huckletree Bishopsgate in London, creating a...
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Loop Interiors reimagined the modern workspace at Huckletree Bishopsgate in London, creating a sustainable and collaborative environment that champions flexibility...
Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
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Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
Christopher Butler
The Internet Can't Discover: A Case for New Technologies The internet reflects us. But new technologies must explore the world beyond. We’ve spent more...
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The internet reflects us. But new technologies must explore the world beyond. We’ve spent more than two generations and trillions of dollars building the internet. It is, arguably, humanity’s most ambitious technological project. And yet, for all its power to process and...
Retail Design Blog
Hermès Turning Wheels of Imagination window display by Marcel van Doorn For the coming summer season, the Hermès flagship store in Amsterdam has once again engaged with a...
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less. How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered...
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over a year ago
How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered or has no answer at all. This must change. we can do more with less, but not so when our audience does less with our more. Yes, it’s impressive when we can create something...
Retail Design Blog
Farina by Hollóka Graphic Design Studio For the pasta of the brand Farina, instead of traditional plastic bags, I designed recyclable paper...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For the pasta of the brand Farina, instead of traditional plastic bags, I designed recyclable paper boxes. When creating the...
Retail Design Blog
Edrington Offices by M Moser Associates M Moser Associates designed the Edrington offices in Hong Kong to harmonize Scottish heritage with...
2 months ago
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M Moser Associates designed the Edrington offices in Hong Kong to harmonize Scottish heritage with local vibrancy, creating a landmark...
Retail Design Blog
Conglong restaurant by Studio8 Architects Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed...
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Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed by Studio8 Architects. Drawing...
Retail Design Blog
Krem by Camille Piot Creating a skincare brand means crafting an experience down to the finest detail. The packaging: A...
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4 months ago
Creating a skincare brand means crafting an experience down to the finest detail. The packaging: A sculptural bottle topped with...
julian.digital
The case against conversational interfaces 01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI...
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01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we...
Retail Design Blog
Acne Studios flagship store by Halleröd The Acne Studios flagship store in Aoyama, one of Tokyo‘s achingly plush shopping areas, first...
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The Acne Studios flagship store in Aoyama, one of Tokyo‘s achingly plush shopping areas, first opened its doors in 2012...
Christopher Butler
The Unpublishable On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”....
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7 months ago
On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for years, along with bits of things I’ve held back for other reasons — fear not least...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
How to make digital business cards and share them via QR codes A previous employer found it important that the whole team had business cards. I had to wait a few...
over a year ago
The DESK Magazine
How to make a minimalist portfolio with Carbonmade You don't need anything too fancy. You don't want to work for hours on your site.
over a year ago
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
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Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
The personal website...
Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks “Hockey stick” growth has long been the elusive goal of Silicon Valley (and Valley-esque)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Hockey stick” growth has long been the elusive goal of Silicon Valley (and Valley-esque) venture-capital-backed startups. It’s so named because the graph of some company metric — users, revenue, retention, orders — starts low and flat, then slowly lifts, then turns steeper and...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 4 medieval marginalia” into your search engine of choice and you will quickly be confronted with a...
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medieval marginalia” into your search engine of choice and you will quickly be confronted with a slew of naughty images straight out of the mouth of Chaucer’s Miller. Flatulence, flesh, feasting. An astounding lot of butt stuff. As well, of course, as some surprisingly complete...
Christopher Butler
The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a...
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They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a very long list of skills, from a practical understanding of formal design concepts to the speed and efficiency with which you wield digital design tools and navigate a variety of...
Christopher Butler
Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away Great design comes from seeing — seeing something for what it truly is, what it needs, and what it...
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Great design comes from seeing — seeing something for what it truly is, what it needs, and what it can be — both up close and at a distance. A great designer can focus intently on the smallest of details while still keeping the big picture in view, perceiving both the thing...
Retail Design Blog
ANTA Basketball Arena by ANTA Space Creative & STILL YOUNG ANTA Unveils the World’s First “Basketball Arena” Flagship Store in Shenzhen — A Dialogue of...
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ANTA Unveils the World’s First “Basketball Arena” Flagship Store in Shenzhen — A Dialogue of Athletic Spirit Across Time Preface...
Christopher Butler
Windows, Frames, and Other Realities Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of...
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Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of wondering. My daughter has discovered the joy of photography through a clever little child’s digital camera. She’s particularly fascinated by its ability to overlay different frames...
Scott Jenson
Hype is a Business Tool Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started...
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Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started playing with ChatGPT? Like everyone else, you probably created a poem in a pirate’s voice. “Pirate Poetry” was fun, exciting, and even playful. Today, EVERYONE is talking about AI, and...
Joshua Smith
Williamsburg Loading Dock Description of artwork The post Williamsburg Loading Dock appeared first on Joshua Smith.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Monos store by Ste Marie Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has...
9 months ago
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Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has inaugurated a second retail space...
abdz.do - Have you...
Brand mark, 3D visualization and animation for Tesseract Icons Brand mark, 3D visualization and animation for Tesseract Icons ...
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Brand mark, 3D visualization and animation for Tesseract Icons abduzeedo0501—23 Tesseract Icons, a brand dedicated to creating new and unique digital art, has recently caught the attention of the design world thanks to the exceptional work of...
Christopher Butler
object – Coffee Cup The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug. I bought a pair of...
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The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug. I bought a pair of used small porcelain mugs at a thrift shop for about $1 back in 2009. I have used one of them nearly every day since. I believe them to be the perfect cup for coffee. This mug...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
  Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
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Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and...
a year ago
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FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and bigger premises a few blocks...
Retail Design Blog
Unity Office Design by Millennium Contracts Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium...
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Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium Contracts with completing the design...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 21 – Working Spaces Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by...
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Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin. My favorite images are the ones that highlight the working nature of the spaces. And the spaces I am most interested in being in are those which embrace the...
Retail Design Blog
HassiaGruppe office by Ippolito Fleitz Group HassiaGruppe, headquartered in Bad Vilbel in Hessen, is Germany’s largest brand manufacturer in the...
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HassiaGruppe, headquartered in Bad Vilbel in Hessen, is Germany’s largest brand manufacturer in the soft drinks sector. In 2018, prestige...
The DESK Magazine
One step forward, two steps backwards — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №255 ⏱️ Average reading time: 4 minutes 🎵 Soundtrack of this essay: Listen here while reading It's a...
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⏱️ Average reading time: 4 minutes 🎵 Soundtrack of this essay: Listen here while reading It's a curious paradox: Scroll through your Instagram feed or peek at your own profile and you'll likely find pixel perfect, high-resolution photos deliberately aged and weathered with...
The DESK Magazine
Addicted to ideas Having an idea is like taking a hit of a fine drug.
a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 ...
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Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 Let me start by saying, there is only one 'Peter Tarka' and he has been inspiring us for years now. Peter Tarka is an Art Director and 3D artist based in London, UK, his series...
The personal website...
What happens when things go wrong The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has...
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The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has produced – means you can hardly go a day without seeing Samuel Becket’s words writ large: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In celebrating...
Retail Design Blog
Vida – “Pura Vida” Cocktail by Horus Academy Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than...
a year ago
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Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than traditional cocktails. There is...
Retail Design Blog
IFF Research | Branding a research workspace with story “From the off Motive came up with some great ideas for how to reflect our culture and identity in...
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Retail Design Blog
MSLAN corner by Devolution We designed a teahouse with a courtyard along the sloping lakeside terrain at CPI Luhu. The platform...
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We designed a teahouse with a courtyard along the sloping lakeside terrain at CPI Luhu. The platform in the courtyard...
Retail Design Blog
Dior store by Peter Marino Dior has had a flagship store on the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, one of New York...
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Dior has had a flagship store on the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, one of New York City‘s...
Retail Design Blog
LAIR Restaurant Bar by RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio A Reinterpretation of the Speakeasy Through Materiality and Spatial Choreography – Renesa...
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A Reinterpretation of the Speakeasy Through Materiality and Spatial Choreography – Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio presents Lair, an immersive...
Retail Design Blog
Fyrtornet High-Rise Building by Wingårdhs Fyrtornet is Malmö’s new timber high-rise – a striking addition to the skyline and the final piece...
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Fyrtornet is Malmö’s new timber high-rise – a striking addition to the skyline and the final piece completing Hyllie Square....
Retail Design Blog
Delight Showroom The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional...
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The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional work environment with unique...
Oykun
Hustle Culture for Designers We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on...
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We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on my full-time work to helping designers via my blog, email newsletter, and other educational content. I need to work damn hard to achieve these goals! Making the most of every
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Pure CSS Parallax Websites "This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to...
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"This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to create a pure CSS parallax scrolling website. If you find this article useful and want to explore CSS Parallax further, you may find my follow-up article “Practical CSS Parallax” an...
Christopher Butler
What I Want From The Internet Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today. I’m sitting in a small room...
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Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today. I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina, USA. When I look out the window, I can see the edges of homes nearby, peeking out through the even older trees between us. I’m far enough...
Retail Design Blog
Exeter College Cohen Quad by Alison Brooks Architects This project is a reinvention of the ‘Collegiate Quadrangle’: the academic, urban model that defines...
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This project is a reinvention of the ‘Collegiate Quadrangle’: the academic, urban model that defines Oxford University and its ancient...
Retail Design Blog
Kimball International Showroom by Eastlake Studio The driving principle behind our design for Kimball’s new Chicago showroom is a shift from seeing...
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The driving principle behind our design for Kimball’s new Chicago showroom is a shift from seeing the “showroom” as a...