Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.

A talk I have about my clocks

Mooie kritische benadering van een krankzinnige status quo. Wegen moeten weg!

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

Tips for enterprise UX. If we do this at CMD, this could be interesting

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

Chatbots vond ik al treurig. Nu is daar ook bewijs voor.

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

All the details about ‘Coding Independent Code Points (CICP) for color space identification’

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make *(hone)* their own tools. Some quotes: > It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities. > Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools. > After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers. > Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

> When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well. > Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation. I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.

Excellent lecture about resisting AI. > I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.

Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany: > very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

This is what the web is for.

Productivity did not go up