I recently discovered the poster shop on 1stDibs, and dang that I’m gonna get myself into trouble there. Here are some that caught my eye today, nothing profound or particularly smart to say about them apart from that it is a nice reminder of how powerful an arresting image can…

A quick one today from Muriel Cooper’s monograph published by MIT press (naturally). From Lisa Strausfeld’s foreword (emphasis mine): From Muriel, I learned to separate design and technology conversations. This may sound antithetical to what you would expect of an MIT Media Lab professor, but Muriel was known in the…

Unit Editions’ “Studio Culture” is a book of interviews conducted by Adrian Shaughnessy, published in 2009. I’ve read through this book a couple of times since picking it up probably 4 or 5 years ago, but picked it up recently to specifically scour for gems on design studio culture and…

When Armin passed late last year, I wanted to re-familiarize myself with his work after really not thinking about him too too much since my years in school (yeah yeah, I know, I should do better). So, I picked up his Graphic Design Manual as a place to start. It…

Every two weeks, in our design team all-hands, we share links to beautiful or interesting things we encountered recently. These can be interesting interactions, compelling visual design, essays on design, code experiments, etc. These last few weeks, we’ve been talking about jazzy keys, holograms, virtual worlds, and face masks added…

If for some reason you’re on this site and haven’t noticed, we rolled out a new brand system last week. Expect some additional posts and details about it over the next few weeks. For now, you can check out this post from Karene, Medium’s VP of Marketing, on the genesis…

Every step, sketch, iteration and refinement that led us to the final logotype for our most recent publication, LEVEL. — Since early 2019, Medium has launched seven new anchor publications, and each of those publications has a graphic identity designed to support the subjects they cover and the unique characteristics that each represent. The most important component of each of these identities is the logotype. Here we’ll take you through…