Design

The Washington Post has an interesting, interactive article on how different typefaces can influence how legible something is and how fast you can read it. It turns out there isn’t any one perfect typeface for everyone — lots of factors come in to play to determine which is best for you.

It’s hard to pick a favorite bike build at The Q YouTube channel. The split wheel one? Square wheels? The bendy, locky one?

And instead of showing off the rumored production version of the much-loved N Vision 74 concept and its hydrogen fuel cell hybrid powerplant, Hyundai chose to restore that car’s inspiration — the “retro-futuristic classic” Pony Concept Coupe from 1974.

It’s fascinating to me how independent Beats still is. Nearly nine years after Apple announced its acquisition of the brand co-founded by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, today Beats released a design video for the Studio Buds Plus. In it, you hear this:

It’s one of the hottest concept cars in years, and now a report from Korea’s Money Today says a production version will hit on May 27th (via The Drive). Please be real!

The Finnish games studio, best-known for classics like Alan Wake and Max Payne, has updated its logo for the first time in more than two decades. As with most modern logo refreshes, Remedy’s new look is much more streamlined — but it also seems to capture the elusive and unsettling quality of its most recent creation, the supernatural thriller Control.

LoveFrom, Ive’s design firm, has a custom typeface called LoveFrom Serif. It was revealed on the agency’s website a couple years ago, but I just found out about it today when looking at the Steve Jobs ebook, which features this note at the end.

Here’s Tesla’s head of design Franz von Holzhausen with a Cybertruck prototype that’s clearly been out in the rain. You can see that Tesla is just going with “a lot of the windshield will be dirty” instead of the complicated extend-o-wiper ideas that have been floating around. I can’t get enough of this.

I know many of you video editors have already switched to DaVinci, and I don’t blame you because Premiere is starting to show its age. However, the last update has an important new addition, applying automatic tone mapping to help edit HDR footage.

When AC Milan take to the field this weekend, the squad will be looking a little 8-bit. The club just unveiled its latest kits, which keep the iconic black-and-red stripes, but render them in pixel art. It’s a striking design — and would feel right at home on certain runways.

Which is a good thing if you like minimalist, modular design, but may leave you feeling short-changed otherwise.

FT Alphaville ranked banks’ research notes by graphic design, and like, listen, there is a small audience for this story but that audience is going to die of lols. Among the highlights: “Unlike its management, Goldman’s research notes play clean” and “wub wub wub.”

This Beautiful Public Data post on the government’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control is one of those wonderful pieces of insight on the massive systems behind everyday items, and it’s catnip for design and transportation nerds.

The world’s largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium burst in the early hours of Friday morning. The AquaDom aquarium in central Berlin was a 25-meter tall structure inside the Radisson Collection Hotel. Originally opened in 2004, it housed 1,500 tropical fish in 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of water. Reuters reports that two people were injured during the incident.

A lot of readers told us they wanted a list of big stories right at the top, so we moved the “Must Reads” box to the top of the page and renamed it “Top Stories” to be clearer. The Storystream feed is now all in one place just below — and we’ll be adding comments to posts like this very soon, which is exciting. More to come!

Over at Bloomberg, Mark Gurman has summed up the state of Apple’s product design department now that the current lead hardware design, Evans Hankey, has said she plans to leave in a few months.