Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs

”What’s being performed, more than anything, is ambivalence: the most protective emotional position in a profession that demands passion but punishes vulnerability.”

Quit Your Job

“You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.”

The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization

”...vision and engineering are often deeply intertwined and mutually informative rather than linear. The magic of both software and software organizations comes from those moments where insight into how something works sparks entirely new ideas about what it could become.”

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella

Independent Days

Avoid the nightmare bicycle

> Good designs expose systematic structure; they lean on their users’ ability to understand this structure and apply it to new situations. We were born for this. > Bad designs paper over the structure with superficial labels that hide the underlying system, inhibiting their users’ ability to actually build a clear model in their heads.

permacomputing

ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot

The hardest working font in Manhattan

dasprogramm shop: Braun design

Seasoned - The brand creation kitchen

Digital Gardening | Chris Armstrong is miscellanious.

Dropbox Brand Guidelines

Codingfont

Poline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library

Naming your brand, from start to finish

Airport Typeface

urban design resources

MAX SIEDENTOPF

Where have all the websites gone?

A peasant woodland | A Working Library

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Design ain’t a democracy

Google - The Web Can Do What!?

Globe Explorer

A better way to index and digest information?

A history of moquette | London Transport Museum

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

A nice write-up on interaction/motion design thinking.

A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands

An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.