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Basically a Teenage Engineering greatest hits compilation.
The celebrated cartoonist talks anxiety, process, and the final installment of his Acme Novelty Datebook series.
After celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first 35mm prototype camera in 2014, Leica is now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the mass-produced version, the Leica I, with a bunch of wildly expensive merchandise.
This includes a $500 set of non-mechanical pencils created by Graf von Faber-Castell that will come in a fancy box and be limited to just 500 pieces when available in February.
Thomas Bulman’s Bull Airs brand has a new collection of sneakers and clothing inspired by classic consoles including the NES, the Sega Genesis, and the original Sony PlayStation, as spotted by Retro Dodo.
The standout piece is definitely the $250 Power Shoes leather jacket featuring a detailed illustration of the Power Glove on the back and a set of non-functional controls on the right sleeve.
Finland’s Aalto University has just launched the free Nokia Design Archive featuring an online archive of photos, videos, interviews, and design sketches from the company dating back to the mid-’90s.
It’s a wonderfully nostalgic trip back to a time when phones weren’t all featureless slabs of glass, with the archive highlighting many of Nokia’s most unusual and experimental designs.
The National Gallery of Denmark is putting together a large-scale showcase of Michelangelo’s work by utilizing “brand new, high-quality 3D-cast replicas” of sculptures that are currently scattered around the world. According to the museum, the event will feature “the majority of Michelangelo’s sculptures in one place,” making it the most comprehensive exhibition of his work since 1875. If you’re in Copenhagen, things kick off on March 29th.
Areaware’s new 15-piece Blockitecture set was designed by James Paulius with hexagonal shapes and cantilevered features so you can build structures in Frank Lloyd Wright’s distinctive Usonian-style.
The blocks are made from a mix of New Zealand pine and fiberboard and while $60 for the set isn’t cheap, a portion of that will go to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
The auto manufacturers? The insurers? The NHTSA just fell down on the job? Could be that more people just drive with their brights on all the time. Personally, I think we should send all of them to the Hague to get this sorted out.
Shout out to r/fuckyourheadlights, a bastion of sanity.
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Casetify has a new collection of cases and accessories inspired by Salvador Dali’s artwork. The standouts include a $100 melting clock iPhone case and a $55 Apple Watch case based on The Persistence of Memory, plus a $65 AirPods Pro case that wraps the earbuds in a pair of red lips from Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment.
The company recently partnered with Kith for its Ultra Open Earbuds, but this time Ronnie Fieg is helping to redesign Bose’s 901 speakers which originally debuted in 1968, but were discontinued in 2016.
We don’t know pricing or availability details, but Fieg, who’s working with furniture designer Mark Jupiter, shared images on Instagram of the limited edition and wonderfully retro redesign.
What if Google, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, and OpenAI existed in the 1980s? Spotted by The Awesomer, TikTok account Kxdlogos attempts to answer that question by reimagining the logos and UI of several well-known tech companies and products (along with similar treatment for popular shows, video games, and more).
Call me a sucker for the aesthetic, but I could scroll this account endlessly. Just look at that Gmail logo!
A handmade desk in an office painted a color called ‘Little Piggy.’
PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew is switching over to a new, retro-style logo starting in May 2025, replacing the pointy “Mtn Dew” branding it’s used for about 15 years, the company shared with The Verge in an email.
I still prefer the logo from the real sugar-containing Mountain Dew Throwback (remember?), but it’ll... dew. Here’s a look at the logo’s changes over time.
The company updated its existing “Moz://a” logo on a recent blog post, and German blogger Sören Hentzschel has spotted a new symbol in some Github code commits that may be used alongside it.
It could represent a flag, but it also looks like a dinosaur thanks to that eye-like dot — which might be a cryptic nod to the Mozilla Foundation’s old mascot.
The aptly named 16-foot tall “Dinosaur” statue, created by artist Iván Argote, is coming to New York’s High Line Plinth in October, where it’ll spend 18 months menacing locals. Argote told Curbed that he wanted the piece to invoke a sense of familiarity with those who often observe pigeons in the city:
“I really want people to have that feeling. It’s like, Ah, I’ve seen you, man. Here you are. Here you are.”
Here’s Guide to Computing, a loving collection of photos of giant computers from 1945 to 1990 by James Ball, who publishes as Docubyte. Sounds like a book is in the works; sign me up.
I’ve been following LuckyMong for a while now because of their incredible (and incredibly fast) illustrations of NBA players. Now, like much of the world, the artist has turned their attention to the Olympics in Paris with very fun images of just how tall Victor Wembanyama is, and South Korean pistol shooter Kim Ye-ji looking like a Metal Gear Solid character.
To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.
Embracing sustainability with a design made from a single block of milled aluminum, Nocs Labs’ $1,289 Monolith x Aluminum is an 8.8 pound wireless speaker featuring Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and support for Spotify and Tidal. Its five drivers include a pair of four-inch woofers all powered by a 15 hour rechargeable battery, and up to eight of the speakers can be paired for synced playback.
