Tomorrow is museum day in the US! Get your free tickets here. [BV]



6,240 photos taken across a 155 degree view over 24 hours = 24 Hour London: the biggest ever time-lapse of London’s skyline, taken from the roof of Canary Wharf’s One Canada Square. [BV]

How to design tech so nobody’s left behind. [BV]



Remembering the Village Voice: Drugs delivered to the office, back stabbings, headlocks... [BV]

A brief history of product sound design. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]



We know music is pleasurable, but it’s incredibly difficult to discern just how this comes to pass. [BV]



Extraordinary gas stations From John Margolies’ archive of Americana architecture. [BV]

Spend some time listening this weekend: Designed this Way explores design in India. [BV]



Goodbye to bits and atoms. Uber has rebranded for the second time in less than three years. (via James I. Bowie) [BV]



Congrats to Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand! The Design of Business | The Business of Design was named one of the 15 best graphic design podcasts. [BV]

How the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds. [BV]



“Most pleasant to the ear”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s itinerant intellectual soundscapes. [BV]



Anatomy of an AI System. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]



Laugh and the world laughs with you. But not everyone LOLs. How people around the world laugh online. [BV]

What colors define historical periods? Color Leap creates color palettes from 2000 BC to the 1960s. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]



Inside America’s abandoned theaters: the curtains have been called. [BV]



Ken Kocienda: “I invented the iPhone’s autocorrect. Sorry about that, and you’re welcome.” [BV]

How magazine cover design may be more important than ever. (via James I. Bowie) [BV]

The Cooper Hewitt received the London Design Biennale 2018 Emotional States Medal for “Face Values”, curated by Ellen Lupton. Our very own Jessica Helfand is one of the participating artists. Congratulations all! [BV]



In Helsinki, a new design museum opens underground. [BV]

From schools to sand piles: In her new book, critic Alexandra Lange tracks how design has shaped kids and kids have shaped design. [BV]



Integral thinking: design in four dimensions. [BV]

With ‘bookstagramming’ becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens? [BV]



The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints faces a divinely inspired rebranding challenge. (via James I. Bowie) [BV]

“When we talk about queering design pedagogy we need to talk about reproduction(s).” [BV]



A look at how to design for senior citizens: both in the macro scale of cities and the small scale of dwellings. [BV]

With her elegant 3-D subway schematics Candy Chan joins a long line of graphic designers and artists who have tried to explore—and explain—mass transit systems through visuals. [BV]



An ode to the color gray. [BV]



7 reasons the design industry may have forgotten Yves Béhar. [BV]

In the fight for net neutrality: Verizon under fire for ‘throttling’ firefighters’ data in California blaze. [BV]