Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

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?”

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

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

Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.

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

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

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

Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools

Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

Very interesting article that points out that the EAA goes much further than the WCAG. We should focus on that as well.

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link