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FastCompany Design

Sotheby’s bid to turn an architectural destination into destiny

Despite its status as an architectural celebrity, the Breuer building, commissioned by the Whitney Museum in the 1960s, has never had an easy relationship with New York City. With a hulking, top-heavy build, brooding dark-gray granite cladding, and nearly windowless facade, it’s as introverted as ...

2 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Sotheby’s bid to turn an architectural destination into destiny

smashing magazine

Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties

SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains his technique for animating SVG elements that are hidden in the Shadow DOM.

2 hours ago

smashing magazine

Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties

FastCompany Design

How the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is building a modern brand

The value of higher education has been on a steady decline for Americans over the past 15 years. According to a September Gallup poll, only 35% of U.S. adults said a college education is “very important,” compared to 75% in 2010. This is what a marketer would call a brand problem. The University ...

6 hours ago

FastCompany Design

How the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is building a modern brand

FastCompany Design

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, Dole has a new fruit for you

Dole invented a new fruit. The Dole Colada Royale Pineapple is sweet and tangy with notes of coconut and, as the name suggests, piña colada. Unlike its golden yellow counterpart, the Colada Royale has a cream-colored pulp with a green-to-golden shell. It also took more than 15 years to get it ...

6 hours ago

FastCompany Design

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, Dole has a new fruit for you

UX Collective

Material 3 Expressive: Building on the failures of flat design

7 hours ago

UX Collective

Material 3 Expressive: Building on the failures of flat design

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FastCompany Design

Inside Netflix’s big deal with AB InBev

The term brand entertainment is tough to define. For many people, it’s an oxymoron and these two words should never be in the same room as one another. For many others, though, it’s simply when brands make stuff we actually want to pay attention to. It could be a short ad, or a feature-length ...

23 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Inside Netflix’s big deal with AB InBev

UX Collective

We wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, we got Bizarro.

1 day ago

UX Collective

We wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, we got Bizarro.

UX Collective

Is Figma in its accessibility era?

1 day ago

UX Collective

Is Figma in its accessibility era?

FastCompany Design

This fantastical pop-up book tells the mind-bending history of typography

Have you ever wondered how the letter “A” got its shape" Or why some fonts instantly look “psychedelic”" Or where the word “text” even came from in the first place" Kelli Anderson, a graphic artist, author, and master of all things paper, has asked all of those questions—and she’s ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

This fantastical pop-up book tells the mind-bending history of typography

FastCompany Design

Zohran Mamdani actually won two elections

The people of New York have spoken. In electing Zohran Mamdani mayor, they voted for generational change, democratic socialism, and joyful pop-culture politics. The historical significance of Mamdani’s victory will be parsed for days, weeks, and years to come. But the people of New York did not ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

Zohran Mamdani actually won two elections

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 530

2 days ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 530

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 530

2 days ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 530

UX Collective

Shifting within: creating change inside a corrupt system without losing ourselves

2 days ago

UX Collective

Shifting within: creating change inside a corrupt system without losing ourselves