Sometimes, drugs are no fun. The rad night you imagined, watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and brushing against the outer boundaries of your consciousness, becomes a six-hour hell of wondering Did I leave the oven on? or Did I look weird when I said that thing to that one person or Do I just think I…

Chris Dixon Apr 29, 2016 · 5 min read We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines into all sorts of hardware, software, and services that overlap and compete with one…

Think about how much data you sift through on a daily basis. You might search Amazon for a new book, read the latest headlines on nytimes.com, browse Spotify for the best soundtracks, and check your wearable to see if you’ve logged enough steps –and that’s only a tiny sliver of the data that floats…

Work / Graphic Design A clever, adaptable identity here for a music venue and restaurant in trendy old east London. Designed by Studio Remote, the identity was created for Brilliant Corners and takes the venue’s name and its interior architecture as the starting point for a geometry-led look and…

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet at Further Future. Schmidt describes festival goers at the cream of the Burning Man crop.Photograph: Tomas Loewy A red Ferrari with the top down swerved past on the winding dirt road, heading to what looked like a small Mars…

TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (品玩) Lately, everyone’s talking about “conversational UI.” It’s the next big thing. But the more articles I read on the topic, the more annoyed I get. It’s taken me so long to figure out why! Conversations, writes WIRED , can do things traditional GUIs can’t. Matt Hartman equates…

Battles bassist and guitarist Dave Konopka holds down what he calls a "full-time side job" — as the experimental rockers' art director. As such, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design alum has masterminded the evocative covers for each Battles release, plus their posters, merch, and more.…

That’s a lot of prominence for a THE. Photo: Justin Davidson As the Metropolitan Museum of Art busts out of its Beaux-Arts shell and opens its Madison Avenue outpost in the old Whitney, the institution is trying on a fresh identity, or at least enshrining an old nickname in a new look. In its logo,…

State of the Art Toni Reid, director of Amazon’s Echo and Alexa, and Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices. Credit Matt Lutton for The New York Times Many of the world’s largest technology companies have spent the last five years searching in vain for the holy grail, a machine to…

​This story was co-produced with Atlas Obscura , the definitive guide of the world’s hidden wonders. Sign up for their newsletter here. Recently, a friend of mine sent me a strange message. It was imperative, she said, that I get in touch with a guy named Geoffrey Mitchell. Geoffrey lives in the Bay…

Last year at South by Southwest, John Maeda, a design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, presented his inaugural Design in Tech report. In a slideshow modeled after Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends reports, he showed that design has indeed become integral to the business of technology.…

A Cuban Amazon parrot. Credit Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark Basics Out of the cage, they speak their own language, make tools, and wreak havoc on plants and researchers’ efforts alike. A Cuban Amazon parrot. Credit Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark Juan F. Masello never…

IT'S OCT. 7 , 2015, and the Cavs are hosting the Hawks in Cincinnati. It's the NBA preseason, a nothing game, really -- save for one detail: LeBron James is debuting his new, flashy signature sneaker, the LeBron 13. On this nothing night, the bright yellow shoe is a beacon beaming out to younger…

Today, every color imaginable is at your fingertips. You can peruse paint swatches at hardware stores, flip through Pantone books, and fuss with the color finder that comes with most computer programs, until achieving the hue of your heart’s desire. But rewind to a few centuries ago and finding that…

I’m a voracious web reader. I spend most of my working days either writing or checking Twitter, NewsBlur, Nuzzel , Techmeme, and The Tech Block looking for interesting stuff I can link to or longer articles I want to read later. When I’m not writing or looking for stories, I spend my time reading…

Nearly seven in ten (68%) people report that salary and compensation is among their leading considerations when determining where to work. So for people who really want to earn a big paycheck, which jobs offer the highest salaries? According to Glassdoor’s latest report highlighting the 25 Highest…

Three weeks ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art—known colloquially and now formally as “the Met”—unveiled a new logo and identity system designed by the international firm Wolff Olins . The response from critics was swift and fierce. Influential typographer Erik Spiekermann harped on the logo’s…

Darius Foroux Feb 8, 2016 · 5 min read (image credit ) Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When Socrates heard that the oracle had made such a comment, he believed that the statement was wrong. Socrates…

New Logo and Identity for The Met by Wolff Olins Reviewed before after Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016 by Brand New Industry / Culture Review by Mark Kingsley. This is how they describe themselves: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere, and the world’s most…

Share › New Logo and Identity for Uber done In-house Reviewed before after Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016 by Armin Industry / Transportation Launched in 2009 (originally named UberCab), Uber is a ride hail application that connects drivers with riders but since there is a chance you are reading this while…

Things I’ve Learned You don’t have to drink to have fun What a shocker! As someone who’s been drinking since his senior year of high school (sorry mom, we weren’t just “hanging out” in the basement), most events in my life revolved around booze. Almost everything does: Comedy shows, concerts,…

If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is… Nik Custodio Dec 12, 2013 · 6 min read We’re sitting on a park bench. It’s a great day. I have one apple with me. I give it to you. You now have one apple and I have zero. That was simple, right? Let’s look closely at what happened: My apple…

Julie Zhuo Dec 4, 2015 · 3 min read My first design job was an internship on Microsoft OneNote in 2007. Our intrepid leader was the product founder Chris Pratley, who terrified me the way karaokeing Adele onstage while completely sober is terrifying. My goal that summer was for him to not think I…

Why We Should Really Be Concerned About the Visual Identity for the Tokyo Olympics This is an edited transcription of a lecture I gave at Temple University Japan on November 25, 2015. このエッセイの日本語版はこちらです。 Identity design represents a specific refraction of the lens of Modernism — and it also…

Before this year’s NBA season started, I had a conversation with a Golden State Warriors fan. He was excited about his team and was keen to explain its success : It was perfectly balanced, with perfect chemistry, role players, coaching and management. That Stephen Curry is pretty amazing also…

On examining what we say and mean Julie Zhuo Jul 2, 2014 Photo by Martin Fisch (www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75) The Facebook company all-hands in January was—as most company all-hands are—wildly energetic, brimming with enormous plans for the new year, and not without a few inside jokes about…

LOS ANGELES -- The reason why the Golden State Warriors are where they are, steps ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers and everyone else, is they take every game as seriously as the Clippers take their matchups with the Warriors. Winning -- not wins, but winning -- is a feat and a mindset built by…

November 2, 2015 Stop Worrying and Love Your Imposter Syndrome While I was at Web Directions last week, a few people brought up the topic of imposter syndrome and were asking for advice on how to overcome it. There’s been a lot written about the challenge of feeling that you aren’t good enough and…

Mastering the art of pretending Julie Zhuo Jan 27, 2015 · 7 min read I kicked ass at Mario games, made my first website in seventh grade, and got a 5 on my computer science AP test. I thought I was set. I thought I’d feel as right as rain, waltzing into the computer science major my freshman year. I…

Bookmarking Apps and the Wish Economy Diana Kimball Berlin Follow Sep 29, 2015 · 13 min read In July 2014, Alexis Madrigal reported for NPR on the strange case of Pinterest . The visual bookmarking app “is mostly known as a place people go to find things to buy or make,” he wrote, and — unusually…

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used…

It wasn’t long ago when graphic design was all most people thought of when they heard “design.” Design’s myriad other disciplines are roaring now. Yet graphic design hasn’t languished. It has bloomed. The 2015 Innovation By Design finalists prove that graphic design has more opportunity for impact…

The grinding work behind a single iPhone feature. Apple has made many things over the years, but its process has remained essentially the same: Find something ugly and complicated and make it prettier and easier. Prettiness, in brushed aluminum, is more or less a permanent state. Ease, however, is…

Yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the release of John Lennon's goody-goody solo album Imagine , on which he softly bleats for world peace and borderless harmony. Described by Rolling Stone as Lennon's "greatest musical gift to the world," the song of the same name fantasizes about a mankind…

Home Video Editions Store Picks Sign In IT'S A DAD, DAD, DAD, DAD WORLD Rodion Gusev Aug 21, 2015 @9:48 AM · Updated: Jun 28, 2019 @9:43 PM Last week, the folks behind Product Hunt introduced Product Hunt LIVE, which, in a Medium post about the launch, founder Ryan Hoover described as “a place for…

D onald trawls Google Fonts for ten min­utes. There are a few can­di­dates, but Don’s not so con­fi­dent in his font eval­u­a­tion skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faith­ful. He sets the action­able head­line text to 48 pt using the light weight in white. It’s per­fect­ly cen­tred over the…

Share › New Logo for Scott Walker done In-house Reviewed New Reviewed Aug. 5, 2015 by Armin Industry / Politics Last month, Scott Walker , the current Governor of the state of Wisconsin, was the 17th (and probably last) Republican to announce his candidacy for the 2016 Presidential election. (The…

August 4, 2015 You’re Gonna Make It I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic lately, and I have a ton to say about it, but I accidentally stumbled on this speech from Coach Jim Valvano , who said it way better than I ever could: My father had a heart attack and he died. And I lost my best friend in…