The end of the year promises new beginnings. How that happens varies wildly, but I’m hopeful. I’m trying to keep my focus on the horizon–SO MANY METAPHORS. Enough already. Link time.
Photography
2025 Drone Photo Awards
This competition welcomes submissions of aerial photography and videos captured through various means, encompassing fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps, dirigibles, rockets, kites, and parachutes.
Web Design/UX/UI
2025 Apple App Store Awards
The App Store Awards are a chance to celebrate the titles that stood out in 2025—and to honor the passion and creativity of the developers behind them.
Industrial Design
Josh Owen’s Spiral Glass Vessels Are 3D Printed With Purpose
As additive manufacturing is relatively new, those traversing the field often aim for their pieces to look similar to traditionally manufactured objects, yet with the power to create intensely complicated geometry – things that would either be too difficult or downright impossible to create. Thus, the impulse to minimize print lines seems natural.
Architecture
Contemporary reinterpretation. Cercle Calongí by Anna Prats Joan Valls + Roger Panadès
The heritage building is characterized by a succession of ceramic walls with three vertical axes of arcades. The new façade uses this concept in a contemporary way, combining the use of perforated and solid bricks and a composition of lattices in openings.
Three Lessons From the Work of Frank Gehry
Things that can evolve can better stand the test of time — and the longer they last, the more value they deliver.
Typography
The joys and pains of type on screen
Digital typography has replaced traditional metal and wood type, and the way we understand and work with typography has changed.
Work
Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
We should want technology to benefit users first. I’m not sure if I currently trust most tech companies enough to believe that that is the case right now.
Ornament and culture
Interface as social signifier
Work & Co: Book
More than a retrospective, the book captures the ethos behind the work: close collaboration, iterative making, and leveraging digital craft to drive meaningful change.
Technology/Tools
Bird-of-paradise inspires darkest fabric ever made
“The light basically bounces back and forth between the fibrils, instead of reflecting back out – that’s what creates the ultrablack effect,” Jayamaha said.
Retro
Retro is a social app that feels like a joy, not a habit. It’s a friends-only photo journal where you share for yourself as much as your friends. It gently nudges you to find at least one moment each week to remember and then put that moment out there in a post so your friends know what you’re up to.