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This concept makes most email clients look ugly

T.C. Sottek
is executive editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System.

Some email clients have come a long way in presenting clean and clear information, but this concept from 1910 Design & Communication shows that there’s still a lot of room for improvement. In the concept, structure and function follow from the constraints of typography, resulting in a design that looks closer to Medium than Gmail or Outlook. “We believe that email is about two things, reading and writing,” the designers write. “And that focusing on these two is what would truly move email to where it deserves to be.”

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