The five best design links, every weekday

Domain: ciechanow.ski

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Airfoil

Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly.

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Bicycle

Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.

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Sound

Interactive article explaining how sound works.

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Mechanical Watch

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

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GPS

A beautifully-illustrated interactive article explaining how GPS works.

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Curves and Surfaces

Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modelled.

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Lights and Shadows

It’s hard to describe how paramount light is. Ultimately, it is the only thing we see.

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Alpha Compositing

Almost every graphic design application released in the last two decades has supported the creation of semi-transparent content.

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Color Spaces

For the longest time we didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the way we talk about color.