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National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

 
Added 4 weeks ago
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Toolspace
https://letterror.com/articles/toolspace.html

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.

 
Added 7 months ago
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT — MIT Media Lab
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

 
Added 7 months ago
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.

 
Added 3 months ago
Foundations: grouping forms with `<fieldset>` and `<legend>` - TetraLogical
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/01/31/foundations-fieldset-and-legend/

Fieldsets and what they do

 
Added 4 weeks ago
Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag • Buttondown
https://buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/unraveling-the-disability-pride-flag/

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

 
Added 7 months ago
Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way – Cloud Four
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/mac-voiceover-testing-the-simple-way/

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

 
Added 7 months ago
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Making Software
https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

 
Added 5 months ago
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ - ArtReview
https://artreview.com/james-bridle-schelling-architecture-award-the-denial-of-genocide-is-on-the-march-everywhere/

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

 
Added 6 months ago
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

[AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.

Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.

 
Added 7 months ago
Font Licensing Simplified — All Styles, All Media, One Flat Fee - Otherwhere Collective
https://otherwherecollective.com/font-licensing-simplified/

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

 
Added 7 months ago
Vasilis van Gemert | Time and Random Repetition | letterspace.amterdam 58 | June 11 2025 on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1095857099

A talk I have about my clocks

 
Added 7 months ago
Nederland wil van Amerikaanse cloud af, maar weet niet hoe - Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-cloud-ondermijnt-de-soevereiniteit-van-europa?share=KhaJE%2FB4FN0%2Fz88WK9mF049JYxOT0A3DB22NFh0d7xiukJHQFuxkLkp6FlecnyQ%3D

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

 
Added 5 months ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/

A good alternative to wetransfer

 
Added 6 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

 
Added 7 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 5 months ago
Annotation Mono
https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/

Very nice font for writing code

 
Added 7 months ago
as days pass by — A (limited) defence of footnotes
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/07/03/a-limited-defence-of-footnotes/

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

 
Added 7 months ago
A Useful Guide to Bad Type
https://letterror.com/articles/bad-type.html

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.

 
Added 7 months ago
Berbice Nederlands: een taal in Zuid Amerika
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/berbice-nederlands-een-taal-in-zuid-amerika/

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

 
Added 7 months ago
A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/20/a-dictionary-of-ai

Vocabulary of any tech hype, really, not just AI.

 
Added 5 months ago
The JavaScript Date Quiz
https://jsdate.wtf/

Brrrr, date in javascript is even worse than I thought. Ridiculous.

 
Added 5 months ago
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