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uxdesign.cc

Ornament and culture

Interface as social signifier.

gq.com

The top secret Virgil Abloh archive

A team of archivists has tirelessly catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled.

exhibition.rightdesigninc.com

Stuffed memories

Unique stories and memories associated with stuffed animals.

anildash.com

The majority AI view

We're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.

youtube.com

How did the world get so ugly?

Look at the objects around you: furniture, cars, doors, bins, staircases, railings, doorbells, doorhandles. Do you like how they look, or not?

storyterra.com

StoryTerra

Explore stories by location and time.

panamaplaylists.com

Panama playlists

The real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.

theverge.com

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

sabrinas.space

The peculiar case of Japanese web design

While the nation is known abroad for minimalist lifestyles, their websites are oddly maximalist.

benn.substack.com

Everyone is crazy now

This is not a precise theory, but man, what do we do even if the outline is true?

calv.info

Reflections on OpenAI

What working at OpenAI actually feels like, explained by someone who just decided to leave the company.

doc.cc

The secret of good metaphors

Some metaphors might be models yet to emerge, offering glimpses of new ways to structure our understanding.

nightingaledvs.com

A garden of sleep

Tracking the emotional distance between two bedtimes—an experimental dataviz project.

restroomarchive.jakewelch.design

The restroom archive

Capturing the humorous, chaotic, and often scary nature of these uniquely private publicly accessible spaces.

armedangels.com

Wikipedia collection

A collaboration with German fashion label Armedangels to spell out the importance of equality, freedom, and peace.

mythcloud.eu

MythCloud: the stories that shape us

Traditional and contemporary dimensions of shared mythologies.

theringer.com

The 100 best sports moments of the quarter century

The highs, the lows, the adversity, the buildup, the release, the heartbreak, the triumph.

internetphonebook.net

Internet phone book

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web.

theguardian.com

Chongqing, the world’s largest city, in pictures

The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it.

system-magazine.com

System magazine

System explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry.