Observed

Observed 013

  1. The story of İznik tiles
  2. What is Cosmopsychism?
  3. Bridging the gap in flavors for a universal theory on what tastes good.
  4. How What Colors We See Is Fabricated Based on Culture and Context
  5. On Paul Rand
  6. The web is a customer service medium
Observed

Observed 012

  1. The erasure of Islam from the mystic writings of Rumi
  2. Mental thoughts at the Symphony
  3. Tokyo “compression” photographic series
  4. The cracks in Silicon Valley’s culture
  5. The origami revolution
  6. $15,000 Apple sneakers
  7. Technology downgrade: a refreshing look at choosing slow living
  8. A tool that writes music based on your name
  9. The double-standard of Charlie Hebdo
  10. The color-tinted photocrom prints of a bygone time.
Observed

Observed 011

  1. The flag of the refuge nation
  2. Blackbeard and the early brand
  3. Design research at IBM
  4. Why a diamond is forever
  5. The newly renovated Beyazit State Library
  6. The original standing desk
  7. The Birdmen of Istanbul
  8. Cashless society
  9. Writing German like Arabic
  10. San Francisco’s first and only emperor
Observed

Observed 010

  1. The UK government design blog
  2. Memory, food, and family: “Mom’s Last Luncheon”
  3. The rise of digital sheet music
  4. “Obituaries My Mother Wrote for Me While I Was Living in San Francisco in My Twenties”
  5. The 5-levels of user trust
  6. Questions to ask when reviewing a design (or anything for that matter)
  7. Strong artificial intelligence may create a suffering being (just like us). The parallels to Frankenstein are worth noting.
  8. The collapse of philosophy. Hopefully our era of specialization is coming to an end.
  9. Maya Angelou: be a rainbow (video)
  10. The modernist architectural “estates” of Paris
Observed

Observed 009

  1. The restoration of the white house in the 1940s and 50s
  2. A visual look at Elephant abuse across the globe
  3. “In sector after sector, the set of all things that are profitable is much smaller than the set of all things that are useful.”
  4. Design in the 1970s
  5. Rescuing İstanbul
  6. A Turkish feminist
  7. Collecting İznik ceramics
  8. Design an eigtheenth century wig
  9. Why I’m not a Liberal
  10. Classical paintings re-labeled for modern programming
Observed

Observed 008

  1. The world’s most readable font, Sikta
  2. An ethical design manifesto
  3. The master of (art) reproduction
  4. Norman Rockwell and his fake Jackson Pollock
  5. The church of CrossFit
  6. The work of architect Shinichi Ogawa
  7. The Islamic concept of Irja and what it means to “postone” judgement
  8. Farting in Edo period Japan
  9. The world’s most expensive fabric, Vicuña
  10. Smashing a Han Dynasty urn
Observed

Observed 007

  1. Regency-era dining practices
  2. An example of United States socialism: the curious case of the Alaska Permanent Fund
  3. The piano of Mozart
  4. Playing Mozart as Mozart did
  5. How “magic” will replaced “Normcore” in fashion trends
  6. Forever21 commissioned a gigantic machine composed of spools of thread that assembled Instagram photos on-the-fly
  7. The “Typologies“ of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher
  8. San Francisco crime notes from the 1900s including the self-defense of a “stalwart young stenographer”
  9. The reveal of Obama’s secret drone program
  10. Untranslatable words like tartle and age-tori
Observed

Observed 006

  1. The true origins of Labor Day
  2. A Silicon Valley dictionary
  3. How to create an archive of your content on Google (and switch services!)
  4. Jennifer poops at parties (video)
  5. Alice in Wonderland from 1903 (video)
  6. Save the bros (video)
  7. The Vivian Leigh Interviews (video)
  8. The last living people with bound feet
  9. Timing interactive elements in your UI
  10. Pop-ups are not only annoying, they now humiliate you
Observed

Observed 005

  1. Kōshirō Onchi
  2. The British queen speaks to the Germans in 1965 (login required)
  3. Truly silent places in America
  4. “You” versus “me” in UI labels and interface design
  5. The deranged penguins of Werner Herzog (video)
  6. A fully-digitized, high-resolution copy of the Gutenberg Bible from the Polonsky Foundation. Refreshing to see that a non-commercial entity is digitizing these works rather than a Google or a Microsoft.
  7. Watchtower of Turkey (video)
  8. Six Sigma manufacturing
  9. The boring designer
  10. Why technology never moves fast enough
Observed

Observed 004

  1. The Freer & Sackler Galleries now offer their entire collections online
  2. Using lookup tables (LUTs) to improve your video footage coloring
  3. Bird being destroyed by a hurtling baseball (video)
  4. A modern mortar and nutcracker based off of primitive tool forms
  5. The National Recording Registry of culturally, historically, and aesthetically important works of music
  6. A new theory on how the pyramids were built
  7. “At least, no matter what new lows life has to offer, my coffee will always stay hot.”
  8. Crochet hats in the style of emoji
  9. A well timed and visually rich Hermes commercial (video)
  10. The secrets of effective airport design
Observed

Observed 003

  1. A visit to the Ottoman harem … in 1843
  2. History of Board Games
  3. “Kenekshens” in visual culture
  4. A fully digital rangefinder camera
  5. Redesign of Narita Terminal 3
  6. The deal with weird airport codes
  7. A side by side comparison of the last and first shots of famous Hollywood films
  8. What comes after religion? (Video)
  9. How Medium creates the perfect underline online
  10. John Varvatos invented the boxer brief (made famous by Calvin Klein’s ads featuring Mark Wahlberg)
Observed

Observed 002

  1. The functional beauty of Plan drawers
  2. Creating a watercolor effect in Adobe Illustrator
  3. The irony of Google spearheading non-advertising-based monetization through Contributor
  4. The photography of Emily Blincoe
  5. IDEO spills the beans on their internal design process
  6. The continuing beauty and modernism of Ottoman silks
  7. Pithy humor and parody of Wikipedia articles
  8. An Chrome plugin to help people measure mock-ups in Google Chrome
  9. Vector UI kit for iOS 8
  10. A Jazz organization logo that changes shape based on music
Observed

Observed 001

  1. Makams used in Turkish classical music
  2. Pattern generator
  3. Clickbait generator
  4. List of classic, workhorse typefaces
  5. CSS site parser
  6. Glenn Gould performing Mozart
  7. Dragone website design (via typ.io)
  8. Hellstern and Sons shoes
  9. MoMA 3D printed dress
  10. The first programmer, Ada Lovelace
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