apple
Engaged reading digest: Outrage, redesigns, laptops and RSS
Apple redesigns its MacBook Pros, The Atlantic just redesigns, we study social media outrage, and celebrate RSS
news impact summit
Stuck in the bubble: the challenges of journalism conferences
The first case study at the News Impact Summit in Paris showed the danger of journalists discussing innovation in a bubble.
design
The Lily: iterating a visual and editorial voice (News Impact Summit, Paris)
For the social media generation, the design of a story is just as important as the journalism. The Lily's Amy King explained the team's interactive approach to design at the News Impact Summit.
kickstarter
Backed: revisiting the designer of the original emoji
Emoji have rapidly become part of modern life and communication. But how much do you know about their origin, designer - and the very first set?
design
Instagram has birthed a clichéd "authentic" visual style all its own
The Guardian recently published an astonishingly predictable rant about Instagram [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/instagrammers-travel-sri-lanka-tourists-peachy-backsides-social-media-obsessed] from Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. The young fogey “oh, social media is ruining the world” tone of this article is almost unbearable. Dig through it, though, and there’s some potentially interesting
design
Offscreen - the print magazine for digital types - redesigns with #16
Issue 16 of Offscreen magazine is now available. It’s a beautiful print magazine all about the digital industry, which I’ve been happily reading for the last couple of years. If you’re interested in online, but still a lover of great print magazines, it’s well worth a
design
Newspapers are becoming magazines, and the New York Times is leading the way
The New York Times has redesigned the opening spread of the print edition to make it more of a digest of everything the outlet is doing across all media. So, yes, that include capturing the best of its journalists’ tweetstorms on there. Laura Hazard Owen interviewed Jake Siverstein [http://www.
apple
Jony Ive on understanding the nature of design
> Surprisingly fewer and fewer designers, regardless of their particular design discipline, seem to be interested in the detail of how something is actually made. With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a
design
Instagram's account switching: a pleasing attention to detail
So, we finally have it. Instagram now supports account switching [http://blog.instagram.com/post/138938416772/160208-accountswitching] from within the app. This is, of course, fantastic news for anyone who is managing a site’s Instagram account while trying to use the app for personal reasons, too. Up until now
design
Operator: a new monospaced typeface, with a gorgeous ad
What a stunning – and informative – ad for a typeface [http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator/] OK, it’s an advert. But it’s a beautiful advert. And it’s informative; I learnt a little bit more about monospaced typefaces, and their roots in typewriters. And quite a bit about typefaces
design
Can we design for more time?
Here’s a good question: > If digital technology saves time, how come so many of us feel rushed and harried? Technological utopians once dreamt of the post-industrial society as one of leisure. Instead, we are more like characters in Alice in Wonderland, running ever faster and faster to stand
apple
Inspired by the horrible
Negative creative inspiration [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/design/44377/marc-newson-design-diversified.html] at work: > Picking holes in things is part of Newson’s creative process. “One of my biggest sources of inspiration as a designer is basically looking at things and hating them,” he says, good-naturedly. “I have