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The Thread That Holds Nothing Together
The design industry’s favorite lie is that it’s woven together. The 2025 London Design Festival built its entire visual identity around a literal …
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Rawness Is the New Polish, and It Costs More
The most expensive design in the room looks like it cost nothing. Deliberately rough, lo-fi, amateur-looking work has become the dominant aesthetic signal of …
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Kellogg's Cereal Box Toys Sell a Past That Belongs to the Buyer, Not the Kid
The Toy Is for the Parent #Kellogg’s put toys back in cereal boxes in April 2026, and the target audience has never seen a cereal box toy in their life. …
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Invisible Design Is the Most Powerful Design Alive
The cognitive scientist who designed your morning is someone you’ll never meet, because their work is the reason you didn’t look away.
A clean …
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Every App Talks to You Like a Therapist Now
A banking app sent a push notification last week. It read, “Hey, just checking in. How are you feeling today?” Yellow heart emoji. Rounded …
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Color Is the Only Design Element Left Standing
The sixty-year setup #Packaging has been the product since before most living designers were born. By 1955, over 60% of supermarket purchasing decisions were …
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AI Tools Gave Designers Superpowers and Took Away Their Words
Andrej Karpathy called AI “a powerful alien tool with no manual.” He meant it about large language models, but the line lands hardest in design, …