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16 stories from the past week in Design, from CTCV.
100 Objects #23: Coin From the Ship of Gold
On August 20th, 1857 a ship set sail from the Port of San Francisco with 600 people and thousands of pounds of gold. That gold was destined for the vaults of New York City banks, but it never made it. Instead, the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean, taking…
Cassette Beasts 2002 is Pokemon in a Zone 6 suburb, with no Paddington and not a wizard in sight
A Brighton studio of Northerners, a 25-hour RPG and a free game engine. It’s set in 2002, so nobody has a smartphone.
40 years after Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, Montreux Jazz Festival's new poster is a dream creative double act
Malika Favre and Kumkum Fernando blend music, mythology and '60s flower power.
You’ve been picturing these logos wrong your whole life
What do you mean Mr Monopoly doesn't have a monocle?
CSS-Tricks Reimplements :nth-child() With Modern CSS
Combining :nth-child with style queries and sibling-index() to conditionally select child elements. Re-Implementing :nth-child() With Modern CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
Art Team Creates Gorgeous Puzzle Game
The art team behind Order of the Sinking Star shares how Disney and Ghibli influenced the visuals and why a good-looking puzzle game must be clear first.
Berkeley Adapts Homes To Wildfire Risk
There is contentious debate playing out right now across the West, about how to adapt homes and neighborhoods to this era of increasingly extreme wildfire risk. Berkeley, California has put itself at the center of this conversation with a new rule on…
How to use simulations in a 3D scene in Blender
Simulation hands the hard work of moving objects over to maths, physics and a little chaos.
Will your digital work still exist in 2046? Here’s why the answer might be no
Our stuff is more fragile than we think.
If smart glasses take off, I predict a new golden age for the billboard
As they lift our gaze from our phones, we'll start looking up.
Are you team Apple or Samsung in the folding phone era?
As the iPhone Duo faces cracks in the facade, is the Galaxy Z Fold still king?
How a séance shaped this beautiful psychic platform rebrand
Mother Design’s Jo Tulej discusses the team’s unconventional approach to design.
"Nostalgia is a double-edged sword": how Dolmio revived its beloved puppet family for a new generation
Elmwood's Kyle Whybrow discusses the increasing hunger for tactile and intentional design.
Shopify CEO Says AI Adoption Question Didn't Matter
Shopify's performance reviews asked how staff used AI. Its CEO says the answers didn't matter, and the question can give a company a reputation.
Rockstar art-directed 600,000 animations, so that GTA 6’s passers-by feel like real people
It’s a lesson the whole creative industry needs to heed.