Based in New York, London, and Philadelphia, Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, beginning with the award winning Guardian Egyptian.

Based in New York, London, and Philadelphia, Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, beginning with the award winning Guardian Egyptian.

Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

Suff Syed, former Head of Product Design, announces his shift to a technical role, arguing that design has been commoditized in the AI era while technical depth is now where innovation happens. He argues design has become baseline, while innovation now lies in systems, agents, and orchestration. The

Apple is set to open a new store in Mainland China, Apple Uniwalk Qianhai (这方来逐浪), on August 16, 2025.

A collection of dynamic wallpapers, for desktop & mobile

A modern take on the original, Mac OS X Tiger Wallpaper. 8 Colours, 6K, Display-P3, Light & Dark, Desktop, iPhone & iPad.

Recreating Moses Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century.

swiss post introduces a concrete wall stamp, paying tribute to the rich artistry and architecture of the country.

Character Designer, Concept Artist, Visual Development

Posts about topics in organization design and design leadership

DOC is an editorial platform that explores meaning in the world of design and invites digital product designers to expand their references beyond the UX bubble. We publish stories worth publishing and we keep ideas worth keeping. Everything else is noise. We pause. We breathe. We assimilate. We seek meaning. We document the world of design through the lens of curiosity and awe.

By embracing sensitivity over logic, designers can learn from old masters and create new solutions that reconnect to us being humans.

Official website for the documentary, Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production.

A precise hexadecimal color clock that goes the whole 24 hours color range, from #000000 to #235959.

By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart, published in 1907, was the creation of the optometrist George…

Get from a standard (Epal-Eur) pallet to a public bench in just a couple easy steps. The idea came while thinking about urban hacking or how to reclaim public space with easy to find material and tools in urban areas. This project is totally free (as in freedom) and follows the principles of OSHW (Open Source Hardware). The first design, released in 2012, was published under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The actual version (v1.5) is now under the Free Art License 1.3

Discover our open-source React library and subscription-based service for generating unique SVG user profile avatars for your website.

Interactive colour splash randomizer.

An ongoing personal project, I envision some of my favorite films as vintage books. Not a best of list, just movies I love. These illustrations are available in a self-published book for sale here . Individual prints can be purchased here .

Learn about the 'overengineered anchoring' pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.

themer takes a set of colors and generates editor themes, terminal themes, themes for other apps, and desktop wallpapers.

A comprehensive database of sans serifs (Grotesk-Schriften) sold in Germany during the 19th century. Many grotesque fonts. Great typefaces.

About This site is about silence. Keep it to yourself and only speak when you are ready to act. Not before, not after. Learn to speak and provide a valid, useful opinion only when the time is right.

The design tool for outstanding websites. Enjoy easy workflow The intuitive drag-and-drop interface gives you everything you need. Designers can switch to Readymag seamlessly, and marketers quickly get used to it.

Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts. Funded by the Leenaards Foundation and supported by Adobe’s plugin tools, the project led to the “Alternative Layout System” plugin, now available for free download on the website. A publication showcasing designers’ experiments with these scripts is also accessible on the website’s “Publication”