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Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation (excerpt)
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Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation (excerpt)

By / 6 May 2020

Whether you remember waiting for dial-up access, tiny screens, and green lines of text or not, you'll get a kick out of Alex Wiltshire's travel back in time to when computers came with wires. Enjoy this excerpt of Home Computers, courtesy of MIT press, with nostalgia photography by John Short.

‘Face: A Visual Odyssey’ Is All Over the Place, But Hey, So Are Faces
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‘Face: A Visual Odyssey’ Is All Over the Place, But Hey, So Are Faces

By / 21 November 2019

When was the last time you went an entire day without encountering a face? Probably literally never.

Chip Kidd: A Singular Voice in Design
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Chip Kidd: A Singular Voice in Design

By / 5 December 2017

The prolific artist may be a designer first, but he's an evangelist for design second.

Algorithmic Versus Parodic Mobile App Art
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Algorithmic Versus Parodic Mobile App Art

By / 5 January 2016
Digital art has been around for almost as long as computers have been. Internet art has existed since the '90s. But due to the mobile app's youth, and the perceived barriers to entry, it's still the Wild West.
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Surveying the Design of Everyday Objects in ‘Objectified’

By / 6 January 2013
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I Heart Design: Remarkable Graphic Design Selected by Designers, Illustrators, and Critics

By / 6 July 2011
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Paul McCartney – “Man We Was Lonely”

By / 9 July 2010
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Buckminster Fuller’s World: Emancipation by Design

By / 19 May 2010

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30 Years of Slowdive’s ‘Souvlaki’
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30 Years of Slowdive’s ‘Souvlaki’

By / 7 June 2023
Everything You Know Means Nothing: Problematic Art and Crystal Castles’ Legacy
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Everything You Know Means Nothing: Problematic Art and Crystal Castles’ Legacy

By / 7 June 2023
The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2013
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The 15 Best Americana Albums of 2013

By / 7 June 2023
Sara Petite Has Fun “Bringin’ Down the Neighborhood”
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Sara Petite Has Fun “Bringin’ Down the Neighborhood”

By / 6 June 2023