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Sites designed to exploit users’ gambling addictions are going to be a little predatory. Poker Now somehow turned out to be different.
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.
Premiere Pro automatically adjusts wide color gamuts to display accurately in your sequence without blown-out highlights. Tone mapping is enabled by default, so iPhone or HDR footage will display correctly.
I’ll let Tyler guide you through it.
Production designer Maya Sigel talks about creating an optimistic version of 1950s sci-fi, with cute bots and lots of superfluous gadgets.
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.
The company is best known for its beautiful audio toys, but has been branching out into PC cases, portable consoles, and now this — the Field Desk.
And it’s a nice desk, sure, but $1,600 nice? Gizmodo has the details if you want to decide for yourself.
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.
Also apparently there was decade-long drama about a new font for road signage? Excuse me while I go down that rabbit-hole for a week.
Production designer Alexandra Schaller talks about building a different, greener vision of the future.
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.
Her departure comes just three years after Jony Ive’s exit, and it’s unclear who will step into the gap of managing the look and feel for iPhones, Macs, and everything else.
After Ive’s departure, both groups were placed under the purview of Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.
Over the past few years, the team has lost the majority of senior designers who worked under Ive, with many of them going to his new firm, LoveFrom. That has now made it harder to replace Hankey, people with knowledge of the matter said. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
This year’s edition of the League of Legends World Championship featured Lil Nas X, Jackson Wang, and some impressive technology.
This write-up doesn’t detail exactly what we should expect from his post-Apple design firm LoveFrom, but it does dive into his background, as well as his history with Apple and Steve Jobs.
...exactly 12 years after Steve Jobs had walked out the door to launch NeXT Inc., Jobs returned as CEO of Apple.
Ive, then 30, assumed Jobs would hire a more renowned designer to replace him, but something unexpected happened at their first meeting. “I clicked with Steve in a way that I had never before done with someone and never have since,” says Ive.
The new Prologue EV has a new Honda wordmark on the back, which is fun and cyberpunk-y in the way that monospaced fonts can be fun and cyberpunk-y. Apparently this is the new branding for Honda’s EVs, which will also get a little blue “e” badge so everyone knows you’re running on electrons under the hood.
A new book explores the visual styles behind all three seasons
Horror is in the AI of the beholder
