Table of contents

Categories

1. Shape of things to come — “Remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.”
   
   • The new Enviro+ environmental monitoring sensors for Raspberry Pi
   • Incredibly realistic faces generated by a neural network
   • The Spilhaus Projection: Oceans in the centre of the world
   • True Colors: If US state flags were designed by data
   • Behind the scenes with iFixit tearing down the new iPhone X on launch day
   • Tractor Hacking: The farmers breaking big tech’s repair monopoly
   • AGM2015: A map of our radioactive planet
   • DermalAbyss: Colour changing tattoos that monitor your health
2. Life on the Internet – Online culture.
   
   • My Dad, the Facebook Addict
   • Kruggsmash Plays Dwarf Fortress
   • Peter Garritano’s photographs of Internet infrastructure in New York
   • The Great 78 Project
   • r/place: a social experiment on a large canvas
   • How Facebook could reveal your voting record to dramatically improve turnout
   • How does YouTube actually work?
   • The Art of Security
3. Humans and other animals — Of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings.
   
   • Map of the Dogs of the World
   • A cartography of consciousness
   • The Alt-Right Playbook
   • Ornitografías: If birds left tracks in the sky…
   • Hitler rehearsing
   • Hitler was high during most of World War II
   • The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
   • International colour symbolism
4. Craft and creativity — Creative inspirations, inspiring creations and creative processes.
   
   • Raspberry Pi opens an official retail store in Cambridge
   • A typeface designed to mimic the National Park Service signs that are carved using a router bit
   • Entries to a competition to design a new tower in London to rival the Eiffel Tower (1890)
   • A DIY mid-century modern CNC flat pack desk and the ethics of recreating classic furniture
   • Diglû: a pictographic typeface for archeology
   • A history of the design of Magic: The Gathering cards
   • Retro VHS distributor logos
   • Urbano Monte’s remarkable 430-year-old map of the world
5. Light-based media — Photography, cinematography, animation and computer games.
   
   • Subnautica: A game without guns, combat or killing
   • How Wes Anderson’s style evolved after his animation work
   • The story behind the game Divinity: Original Sin
   • How movie trailers manipulate you
   • The Story of Tetris
   • Douglas Trumbull: Lighting the Starship Enterprise
   • The Collection: Letterpress plates for print film advertisments
   • The Smash Brothers: How it became a competitive phenomenon, a documentary
6. Use your words — Writing, journalism and typography.
   
   • Grawlixes: How these @*#%!$ things became a symbol for cursing
   • Evolution of the English alphabet
   • The elusive letter ‘g’
   • Selected talks from ATypI 2017 Montréal type design conference
   • What makes a ‘high concept’ movie idea?
   • Julia Evans’ blogging principles
   • Ten letters we dropped from þe alphabet
   • The Art of Storytelling: Free online course from Pixar and Khan Academy
7. Miscellany — Things that don’t quite fit into any of my other boxes. Yet.
   
   • Putting Sockrotation.com into lockdown
   • Why the periodic table needs a redesign
   • High-res public domain maps of the world using the Equal Earth projection
   • Map of medieval trade routes
   • Tale Foundry: The five weirdest genres of fiction
   • How realistic are the fantasy castles from films and games?
   • Arduboy: Game system the size of a credit card
   • Crypto is hard: The secret cryptographic features of Barbie typewriters

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