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the-brandidentity.com

A sans serif built on oversized round shapes

Superior Type’s Heaven is a brutalist grotesque built on round shapes that are too big for their space.

avantgarde.110west40th.com

Avant Garde

A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.

digital-collections.princeton.edu

Russian and East European posters

Poster art as used in advertising for performances and films in a variety of Party-sponsored campaigns and ephemera.

creativeboom.com

André Britz’s landscapes, bound with a pink elastic band

Intuitive drawings of places made from memory alone, in a 64-page book designed to feel unfinished.

visualrambling.space

Moving objects in 3D space

Have you ever wondered how to move objects along a spherical helix path?

backgrounds.supply

Gradient background generator

A free gradient background generator with 20+ animated shader modes.

itsnicethat.com

Bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants

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

tomacco.github.io

Amazing glass

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.

imagetoascii.art

Image to ASCII converter

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

creativeboom.com

How Rob Farmer turns half-baked sketches into New York Times covers

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

walking-men.com

Walking Men

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

brainfunctioncollapse.com

Let’s talk about gradients

A short essay on tools, with a working exhibit.

pangrampangram.com

Optical vs. mathematical alignment

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

the-brandidentity.com

GridScout’s brand identity

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

the-brandidentity.com

A geometric typeface made for the age of AI

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

soverybright.com

Make your logo brighter than white

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

youtube.com

Susan Kare: Designing icons & graphics for the original Mac

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

elliotjaystocks.com

Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

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

ditherit.com

Dither it

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

misery.co

ShaderPad

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