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Cafeopia by Backbone Branding Café about coffee A client approached us with a vision to launch a café featuring a diverse range of...
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Café about coffee A client approached us with a vision to launch a café featuring a diverse range of global...
Christopher Butler
The National Design Studio is a Scam Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services. President Trump’s appointment of AirBnB...
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Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services. President Trump’s appointment of AirBnB co-founder Joe Gebbia as “Chief Design Officer” of the United States is a sickening travesty. It not only proves a fundamental misunderstanding of both design and governance, but...
Retail Design Blog
Higgidy rebranding by Bloom Bloom refreshes Higgidy brand for all food lovers Bloom, the London-based brand design agency known...
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Bloom refreshes Higgidy brand for all food lovers Bloom, the London-based brand design agency known for reinvigorating and refreshing some...
Christopher Butler
Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design...
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Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design leaders never stop looking for it. Every good piece of design has at least one detail that is the “key” to unlocking an understanding of how it works. Good designers will notice that...
Retail Design Blog
TSUNRISE Incense Sticks by One Studio There In the brand visual system of the online incense brand “TSUNRISE,” we employ a top-and-bottom zoning...
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In the brand visual system of the online incense brand “TSUNRISE,” we employ a top-and-bottom zoning design approach to create...
Scott Jenson
The Timmy Trap This is Part 2 of my LLM series. In Part 1, I discussed how in just a few short years, we went from...
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This is Part 2 of my LLM series. In Part 1, I discussed how in just a few short years, we went from the childlike joy of creating “Pirate Poetry” to the despair that our jobs would disappear. My main message was to relax a bit, as companies abuse the hype cycle to distort what...
Retail Design Blog
Albertson’s Reserve by Harcus Design Albertson’s Reserve offers a range of wines packaged in 4 Litre casks, carefully crafted for...
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Albertson’s Reserve offers a range of wines packaged in 4 Litre casks, carefully crafted for everyday convenience. Sourced from South...
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...
Retail Design Blog
Steelcase Offices and Showroom by M Moser Associates M Moser Associates designed the Steelcase offices and showroom in Hangzhou, creating a flexible and...
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M Moser Associates designed the Steelcase offices and showroom in Hangzhou, creating a flexible and immersive workspace that seamlessly blends...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved. Black Sabbath’s first four studio albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, and Vol 4, released in rapid succession between 1970 and 1972 – laid much of the...
Retail Design Blog
Guess Flagship Store – Las Vegas Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess...
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Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess flagship store...
Product Identity
head on the cloud, feet on the ground A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
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Retail Design Blog
Do Man by killeridea This label was created to tell the story of a collaboration: two people, one wine. The central...
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This label was created to tell the story of a collaboration: two people, one wine. The central visual element is...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never especially enthusiastic about maintaining our account on Instagram. The platform is antithetical to so much of the what we love on the web: hyperlinks, web feeds (e.g., RSS),...
Retail Design Blog
This Moment Candles by Karolina Król Studio This Moment is a brand of small-batch, hand-poured, naturally-scented soy candles and natural home...
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This Moment is a brand of small-batch, hand-poured, naturally-scented soy candles and natural home fragrance products. It was created as...
Christopher Butler
Single-function Devices in the World of the Everything Machine What we lost when everything became a phone, and when the phone became everything. In 2001, I took...
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What we lost when everything became a phone, and when the phone became everything. In 2001, I took a train from Providence to Detroit. What should have been a 12-hour journey stretched into 34 when we got caught in a Buffalo blizzard. As the train sat buried in rapidly...
Retail Design Blog
Roots by F/Agency Roots — a retailer offering healthy, farm-fresh, and natural products. The project involves adapting...
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Roots — a retailer offering healthy, farm-fresh, and natural products. The project involves adapting one of Russia’s largest grocery chains...
Christopher Butler
The Best Interfaces We Never Built Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece...
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Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece of technology is an interface. Though the word has come to be a shorthand for what we see and use on a screen, an interface is anything that connects two or more things together....
Retail Design Blog
Lights&Shadows by Modern World Studio We developed the complete design for the Lights & Shadows project—a selection of 12 organic...
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We developed the complete design for the Lights & Shadows project—a selection of 12 organic teas—from naming and original illustrations...
Christopher Butler
The Designer's Hierarchy of Career Needs Why compensation, edification, and recognition aren’t equally important—and getting the order wrong...
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Why compensation, edification, and recognition aren’t equally important—and getting the order wrong can derail your career. Success is subjective. It means many things to many different people. But I think there is a general model that anyone can use to build a design...
Retail Design Blog
Nuqa by Laia Fusté Studio Nuqa, bridging timeless heritage and a boldly redesigned identity In the heart of the Middle East...
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Nuqa, bridging timeless heritage and a boldly redesigned identity In the heart of the Middle East and North Africa, where...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2025 June 7 A new book. First pages are always hit or miss. I cannot unsee the face in the building to...
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A new book. First pages are always hit or miss. I cannot unsee the face in the building to the left. Peeking face is not me, but Nostradamus. The doom signals of 2025 are many and unrelenting. They can’t all be true, so it’s clear someone wants a frightened...
Retail Design Blog
Tequila SeisCuatro by Francisco Cázares Zermeño Tequila SeisCuatro “Where Greatness Resurfaces” In the sacred heart of Jalisco’s highlands, where...
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Tequila SeisCuatro “Where Greatness Resurfaces” In the sacred heart of Jalisco’s highlands, where ancient legends whisper through emerald agave fields,...
Christopher Butler
Why Embodied AI is the Red Line We Cannot Cross We must not give AI bodies. If the researchers who created AI are right, our future existence...
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We must not give AI bodies. If the researchers who created AI are right, our future existence depends upon it. If you have been keeping up with the progress of AI, you may have come across the AI 2027 report produced by the AI Futures Project, a forecast group composed of...
Retail Design Blog
Mioro by Dozen Agency BUONGIORNO, SIGNORI AND MIORO! We were inspired by the inviting aroma of coffee as we accepted...
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BUONGIORNO, SIGNORI AND MIORO! We were inspired by the inviting aroma of coffee as we accepted Silpo’s assignment to develop...
Christopher Butler
The Art Secret Behind All Great Design Composition Speaks Before Content When I was a young child, I would often pull books off of my...
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Composition Speaks Before Content When I was a young child, I would often pull books off of my father’s shelf and stare at their pages. In a clip from a 1987 home video that has established itself in our family canon — my father opens our apartment door, welcoming my newborn...
Retail Design Blog
C’ME power bank by ONEBOOK DESIGN “Instant power, C’ME is awesome” C’me is to keep you visible and online at any time! Whether it is...
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“Instant power, C’ME is awesome” C’me is to keep you visible and online at any time! Whether it is an...
The Turn Signal RSS...
A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot...
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Christopher Butler
PAC – Personal Ambient Computing The next evolution of personal computing won’t replace your phone — it will free computing from any...
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The next evolution of personal computing won’t replace your phone — it will free computing from any single device. Like most technologists of a certain age, many of my expectations for the future of computing were set by Star Trek production designers. It’s quite easy to...
Retail Design Blog
Junshanye × Googol by 古戈品牌 Unlocking the Code of Eastern Beauty in National Tea Where Mountains and Waters Sing in Harmony...
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Unlocking the Code of Eastern Beauty in National Tea Where Mountains and Waters Sing in Harmony Nature holds the secrets...
Christopher Butler
Why AI Makes Craft More Valuable, Not Less For the past twenty to thirty years, the creative services industry has pursued a strategy of...
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For the past twenty to thirty years, the creative services industry has pursued a strategy of elevating the perceived value of knowledge work over production work. Strategic thinking became the premium offering, while actual making was reframed as “tactical” and “commoditized.”...
Retail Design Blog
Noise Beer by Kate Minchenok Noise Beer is a collection of craft and dark beers whose visual identity is inspired by the noise...
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Noise Beer is a collection of craft and dark beers whose visual identity is inspired by the noise music genre...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2025 May 25 Many Grids I’ve been making very small collages, trying to challenge myself to create new...
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Many Grids I’ve been making very small collages, trying to challenge myself to create new patterns and new ways of connecting form and creating space. Well, are we? The last page in a book I started last year.
Retail Design Blog
9¾ by Constantin Bolimond This gin is based on the industrial revolution that began in England in the last third of the 18th...
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This gin is based on the industrial revolution that began in England in the last third of the 18th century...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2025 May Catching Up
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Retail Design Blog
Milhóc Whisky by My Creative Milhóc Whisky, is located in the middle of France’s famous Armagnac producing region! Their...
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Milhóc Whisky, is located in the middle of France’s famous Armagnac producing region! Their first-born single-grain whiskey, Le Premier-Né and...
Christopher Butler
Order is Always More Important than Action in Design Before users can meaningfully act, they must understand — a principle our metrics-obsessed design...
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Before users can meaningfully act, they must understand — a principle our metrics-obsessed design culture has forgotten. Today’s metrics-obsessed design culture is too fixated on action. Clicks, conversions, and other easily quantified metrics have become our purpose. We’re...
Retail Design Blog
Glenmorangie whisky collection by Butterfly Cannon Glenmorangie wanted to celebrate their Head of Whisky Creation’s combined passion for whisky and...
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Glenmorangie wanted to celebrate their Head of Whisky Creation’s combined passion for whisky and wine, through the release of three...
Christopher Butler
Printing Everything and Owning Nothing Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it...
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Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it is, but very few people have one. This will change rapidly over the next few years. Plenty of contemporary sci-fi have depicted futures where everything is “printed.” The exact...
Retail Design Blog
Fang Eyewear Showroom by M-D Design Studio the Fang Eyewear Showroom by architecture firm M-D Design Studio, a project which reimagines the...
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the Fang Eyewear Showroom by architecture firm M-D Design Studio, a project which reimagines the traditional showroom in the town...
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...
Retail Design Blog
nuvéa body lotion by Aiham Othman This project involves a packaging series for nuvéa, a brand focused on hydration, softness, and...
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This project involves a packaging series for nuvéa, a brand focused on hydration, softness, and sensory beauty. The design seamlessly...
UX Collective
It’s far past time to control the algorithm Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Star Wars movie posters from Hungary Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All Rights Reserved. Csillagok háborúja (Star Wars), 1979. The custom acute accents are simple squares. The secondary typeface is ITC Avant Garde Gothic. More info on...
Christopher Butler
We Cannot Talk About AI Without Talking About Capitalism, Fascism, and Liberty Let me begin with a disambiguation: I’m not talking about AI as some theoretical intelligence...
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Let me begin with a disambiguation: I’m not talking about AI as some theoretical intelligence emerging from non-biological form — the sentient computer of science fiction. That, I suppose, can be thought about in an intellectual vacuum, to a point. I’m talking about AI, the...
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The history of album art Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed...
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Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per...
UX Collective
Everything’s a vibe: is it progress or just an illusion? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Christopher Butler
Periodical 22 – Technological Entitlement Technological entitlement, knowledge-assumptions, and other things. Are we entitled to...
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Technological entitlement, knowledge-assumptions, and other things. Are we entitled to technology? A quick thought experiment: A new technological advance gives humans the ability to fly. Does it also confer upon us the right to fly? Let’s say this isn’t a Rocketeer...
Retail Design Blog
All in One by Antonia Skaraki A nourishing and convenient meal solution designed for today’s health-conscious, eco-aware...
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A nourishing and convenient meal solution designed for today’s health-conscious, eco-aware consumers. Two freeze-dried velouté soups—Lentils & Vegetables and White...
Christopher Butler
You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers,...
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I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers, and thinkers whose work transformed how we see the world. What constellation of circumstances made them who they were? Where did their ideas originate? Who mentored them? Would...