An archive of Chinese cigarettes — 3,200+ SKUs across 200+ brands with pack imagery and graphic design history.

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons.

Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders for you to use in your projects, as React components or GLSL.

Designing a single set of glyphs—one that’s as important and (literally) iconic as it is easy to mess up.

I kept an old iMac alive for years just to run Freehand MX. Halftones, moirés, film separations.

A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.

Professional dithering effects instantly with this dithertone free tool.

Create ASCII art for websites and marketing from images, video, live cam, and templates.

Redefining what it means to be a creative in the age of the algorithm.

Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit games.

Create stunning gradients with 22+ modes — noise, dither, aurora, mesh, cosmic, liquid chrome, and more. Export as 5K images or code.

How direct interaction is being replaced by hidden automation and why tactile control matters.

A free online tool that demonstrates how Cavalry can be used to build branded creative tools.

Reflections from Stefan Sagmeister, Liza Enebeis, Erik Kessels, and 10 more creatives—in the new editorial UNLEARNED by Readymag.

Generate and publish massive 3D particle swarms with custom AI logic.

How compression formats dictate our visual culture.

A vast collection of miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era.

Create and share mathematical tiling patterns.

Free WebGPU-powered ASCII, dithering, and retro effects at 60fps.