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Figma isn’t making you a bad designer

You like pen and paper, I like Figma. We’re both great designers.

‘Designed by Apple in California’

Book design documenting past and current Apple products through 450 photographs.

Collective #774

Quirky, vibrant, and full of delightful surprises, Lief Amsterdam is our website of the week! With its stunning color palette, unconventional layouts, and smooth effects, it offers a truly unique browsing experience.

The strange reason why Apple’s logo has a bite taken out of it, revealed

Plenty of theories have emerged about how the now-famous logo came to be…. But the genius behind the original design has shared the real reason behind it

From topography to typography: How a graphic designer’s love of Aptos inspired the next ubiquitous commercial typeface

Steven Matteson’s font Aptos, named for an area of Santa Cruz County he came to appreciate deeply as an escape during a stint over the hill, will be the default for the hundreds of millions who use Microsoft products such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going

For a standard that’s not even three years old, this was a major win. Or rather, it’s a win for the web community, for photographers and artists, as well as for those of us who created the codec.

What on Earth is Nike doing with its wild new branding?

People have been commenting on social media to ask why the brand placed a couple of apparently random gothic Blackadder-style letters on a post featuring Spanish tennis star and current men’s singles number one Carlos Alcaraz. But it’s not the one advert. Nike has been changing up the ‘D’ in several recent adverts.

Not my type! Perfectly good products that were ruined by terrible fonts

These hilarious snaps shared by social media users worldwide and collated into a gallery by Reddit, feature this type of blunder.

Koto rebrands Glassdoor with friendly illustrations and a typeface inspired by office vernacular

In an all encompassing visual and verbal rebrand of the job searching site, Koto aims to enhance the company’s dedication to workplace transparency.

The Dubai logo continues to divide opinion

Is it too clever for its own good?

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