Simon Heys' portfolio →

Another fine example of the International Style

A very frictionless product trial on Tweak (a to-do app) →

Endel's manifesto →

Endel's manifesto is a visual treat

Eagle →

Eagle helps you become a happier, better designer. A new way to collect, search and organize your image files in a logical way and all in one place.

Minimal Calendar →

Another great example of the 'international style' design sensibility very sensibly applied to a very sensibly accurate product category: the calendar. Remarkably executed by the fine folks at Rationale.

FOT-UDKakugo Large Pr6N's font page →

Maybe it is everything in Japanese text that looks beautiful or perhaps Fontworks has conceived the most brilliant type sample graphics for their FOT-UDKakugo Large Pr6N page that it makes the dullest font details page on Adobe Font look so good!

Hourly App's website →

A beautiful example of the 'international style' design aesthetics

Birdbox →

I want a house on a hill with a backyard, so I can put this on it.

Hand & Eye →

I very much like the look of Hand & Eye's website. I'm also loving the organic forms of their lightning products and particularly the aesthetics of the terracotta A-Beam. There are also some great accompnaying images of its use as a minimal yet statement-piece quality lighting solution; one among them is the Fjord Office in clerkenwell designed by Studio Jenny Jones.

Raven

I realise most things on Raven is designed by Teenage Engineering, is that only why their website looks so slick?

Arrival

I've seen nothing else done better than Arrival to make us look like we've entered the future

Zdzislaw Beksinski

I only just discovered Zdzislaw Beksinski (via) but the artist has left me needing to shake off the gasp.

Blokdots →

If you always wanted to use an Arduino (like how I have always), but didn't know how to get started, this free prototyping tool might be worth looking into (via). Great technical design aesthetics going on with the website, I might add.

[Design inspiration] Bold

Love everything about the 'Bold' look. The geometric logo form and the device's design is so very much keeping in with very trending 80's theme.

[Quote] Toni Morrison on freedom and power

I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.’

– Toni Morrison (via)

[Takeaways] Progression Podcast: Peter Merholz →

I love Peter's tip for first time speakers:
Most speakers introduce the theory first then explain the practical use case but in the industry most people attend the talks because they already have bought the theory, so start with the practical use case and then connect it back to the theory.

Article: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech →

Good Idea in the article above especially for people engaging in regular team discussions.

[TLDR] A great way to push forward and reduce the risk of commitment bias (for the lack of a better word) in a project discussion is to always express certainty or disbelief in an idea in terms of percentage values. This gives room to accommodate being corrected which can significantly de-risk a project that could potentially go wrong for the lack of only not having considered alternate approaches.

[Typographically Speaking] Larish Neue @ The Daily Dot

Another blog series I'm getting started within this post, this one is called Typographically Speaking. The idea is simply to catalogue some real examples of a type in use on a website. Normally when you are starting out with a new project, type choices can be very daunting and it's very difficult to fully visualise how your choices will actually look like in the wild, so collecting examples where some selected typography seems to work well can hopefully be a good starting point.

There is, of course, Fonts in Use and Type Sample but on a personal level, I want to have it closer to base :)

On this first edition, I like the use of Larish Neue rendered on the headlines @ The Daily Dot

The emerging 737 Max scandal, explained →

A good analysis and explanation of what went on behind the scenes that resulted in the recent Boeing 737 Max debacles.

Quote Worthy:

The nature of the airline industry is such that there’s no real money to be made selling airplanes that have a poor safety track record. One could even imagine sketching out a utopian libertarian argument to the effect that there’s no real need for a government role in certifying new airplanes at all, precisely because there’s no reason to think it’s profitable to make unsafe ones.