Category: Found

Design inspiration, books, links, and articles that have stuck with me or things I find cool and decided it deserved its own post.

  • Started reading The Secret History because of this tweet. So good. If you’re into audiobooks, the author narrates it, which makes it even better. Photo looks like its from yesterday, but it was taken in 1992.

  • H.E.R.E. This new magazine about the Hudson Valley looks really beautiful. Excited to see it in person.

  • Just rewatched The Grand Budapest Hotel and discovered Annie Atkin‘s work, including her book, which looks lovely. Picking this one up over the weekend.

  • This was so inspiring and a really well done bike documentary. I think the best one I’ve seen. Makes me want to do a hard thing on a mountain bike. Time to start planning! Wild its been two years since Crossing Washington.

  • https://scottsueme.com

  • Love these Summer and Winter ‘film photo zines celebrating adventure season’ by Field Mag. So well done. Spotted at Windthrow. Inspo for a travel photo book.

  • Claudiabasel is a Basel-based design office focused on graphic and interaction design. Monday inspiration. Lovely posters in their shop.claudiabasel.ch/

  • If you ever find yourself asking the question “how can we increase Daily Active Users?” instead of “how can we make our product better for people?”, you’ve already lost. Metrics are trailing indicators of qualitative improvements or degradations you’ve made for your customers… they are not the point of the work. From Mike Davidson on One…

  • Didn’t get a chance to attend Figma’s design conference, but caught a recording of the founder of Airbnb after a few of us were discussing it at work. Wrote up some notes that I found particularly relatable and inspiring. Brian Chesky talk – He felt like Airbnb as a product was losing its magic. Looked…