References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.

Glass that bends the page behind it. Liquid glass web components for HTML, React and Vue, tuned pixel by pixel against Apple’s own renderer.

Convert images to ASCII art locally in your browser. No upload, no signup. Copy ASCII or export TXT, PNG, SVG, and Markdown.

The motion designer discusses procedural software, editorial deadlines and why perfectionism is the enemy of good work getting seen.

A series of public art installations of pedestrian traffic icons assembled from around the world, presented in humane scale.

A short essay on tools, with a working exhibit.

While software can place objects with mathematical precision, our eyes don’t always agree with the result.

How industrial visual languages build credibility with field crews and corporate boards alike.

The Neurath X Collection began with a question: what might geometric typography look like in the age of AI?

Upload a logo, choose what glows, download an HDR JPEG. Free — nothing is stored.

Stories behind the Happy Mac, Command key, Chicago font, and more, along with the design lessons Susan learned from Steve Jobs and others.

How typographic grade preserves visual balance across screens and print substrates without altering layout geometry.

Free online image dithering tool. Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Bayer ordered dithering, animated GIFs, and multi-image upload.

A lightweight, dependency-free library that reduces boilerplate when working with fragment shaders.

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.