I’ve been trying to take things as they come. It’s hard when things are moving really fast to take a moment and feel it. When I look at the date, I see how much has changed from 1/1/25 to now. At the same time, nothing has changed–yet. It’s coming, time to get on the roller coaster and enjoy the ride.
Architecture
A São Paulo Apartment Designed Around the Owner’s 5,000 CDs
Some homes are designed to impress; others are designed to reflect the people who live inside them. Apartment NUBE, designed by Nati Minas & Studio + Flipê Arquitetura, manages to do both while floating – figuratively, of course – like a cloud above São Paulo, Brazil’s tree-lined Jardim Europa neighborhood.
Kovo 11 Park by Inout.designstudio: Revitalizing Urban Nature and Community Life in Kaunas
Spanning 6,932 square meters, the renewed park transforms a once underutilized green space into a vibrant, multifunctional hub that supports leisure, recreation, and social interaction for residents and visitors alike.
LYM SPACE by PAK Architects
A poetic office-commercial building in Hanoi shaped like a blooming flower, merging concrete strength with terrace greenery and spiritual softness
Graphic Design/Branding
The Royal Albert Hall gets a modern rebirth in majestic rebrand
Heritage design gets a flexible, future-proof revamp
Animation
Tomohiro Okazaki’s ‘Paper Study’ Transforms a Quotidian Material into Mesmerizing Animations
A series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync.
Typography
Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
…what I find very appealing is the contrast within each letter: a juxtaposition of heavy (large) and light (small) dots, which gives the convincing allusion that static lines of type are fading in and out as if on a dot-matrix display or TV screen
DIA’s identity for an electronic festival mimics music with a typeface made of pulsating particles
The neon green accent colour of the French festival’s 2025 identity was so catchy that attendees integrated the hue into their outfits.
Web Design/UX/UI
UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It)
What wins is the model that people don’t want to leave. The one that feels like home. The one where switching would mean losing something—not just access to features, but fluency, comfort, all those intangible things that make a tool feel like yours.
Exposure
Designers often take pride in being introverts. Left alone with our work, we’d do anything to avoid having to talk to someone. That’s a problem when your job is literally about understanding the world around you. People, companies, markets, economics, and everything else.
The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering
A deeper look at how design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning — and why a shared language of making is the only way to build real shipping velocity.
Work
DesignOps as culture builders
Simple ways to build and scale team culture as Design Operations practitioners
Tools
Talanoa email
Talanoa organizes your emails like your favorite messaging apps — by sender, not threads.