A guide for engineers and curious people who use the web every day, but never built a mental model of how browsers work.

Heart-shaped books transformed the printed page into a profound symbol of piety and romance.

Explore the birthplaces of ideas that shaped civilization.

To understand what’s next as software grows more intelligent, we look back on 20 years of interaction design.

A nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002.

A systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage.

We like progress—whether in technology, economy or culture—but we fear the most powerful generators of such progress.

The internet was built with a missing piece. Three decades later, that vision is finally materializing.

Celebrate Christmas together with a look at America’s rich history of design.

The story behind the Gotham type family.

Very few graphic inventions have shaped the visual landscape of our everyday lives as quietly and ubiquitously as the barcode.

A brilliantly human photographer who celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty the mundane.

Reflecting on the master architect’s legacy and its relevance to current UX.

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education—but ended up impacting way more.

Interface as social signifier.

Before we all mute the word ‘dithering’, here's why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.

A zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE: a monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe.

We’re in 1995 again. This time with Artificial Intelligence.

This year, dot com turned 40. Nearly a billion domains have been registered during that period.

The original 8×8-pixel patterns that were in the original Control Panel for setting the desktop background and in MacPaint as fill patterns.