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Apple
Apple Watch Ultra succeeds where Watch Edition failed
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What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore?
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The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners
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A historical view on the Metropolitan Apple Watch face
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The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch
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The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces
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The untold history of macOS System Preferences
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The clever new design technique in the iPhone 11 pro
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The new Mac Pro is a design remix
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The design of Apple's credit card
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Rediscovering Apple's 1987 identity guidelines
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Digital design
Leica’s engraved fonts
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Are you designing a map or a path?
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10 Year Challenge: how popular websites have changed
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
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Graphic design
Elements of aircraft safety card design
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Your native language affects how you see this image
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Industrial design
When Leica met Apple
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How the Xbox got its good looks
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The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow
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Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
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INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone
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The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs
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When an architect designs a train
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Dieter Rams designed one of Gillette's most successful razors
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Reviews & interviews
Books
Four books about Apple design
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Three books about Sony design
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Make Something Wonderful
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Three books about Muji
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Shift Happens preview
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Three books about Leica
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See the best of Japan without leaving your home
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Louis Vuitton City Guides
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Learning design from musicians
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City travel guides: honorable mentions
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The best city travel guides
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Cameras
Leica T: eight years later
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Is the Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson any good?
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The 16-year-old Leica Digilux 2 is still a great camera
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Two months with the Leica Q
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Exhibitions
Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit
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A visit to the Eames institute
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40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum
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Quick visit to the Design Museum
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Games
Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance
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Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion
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Assemble with Care and the joy of fixing things
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Interviews
Behind the scenes of making a children's board book
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Icon designer Louie Mantia's take on traditional Japanese playing cards
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How Jane Ko wrote and published her own guide to Austin
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Objects
Daylight at the end of the tunnel
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Mode Designs SixtyFive · a celebration of materials
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A skeptic's review of Apple Watch
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A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer
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Software
One month of Zwift on a cheap stationary bike
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Go-to Mac apps and utilities
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Video
A generative film about Brian Eno
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Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
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Drive My Car is a beautiful, picturesque film
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Rams: a documentary portrait of a design legend
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Photoessays
North America
Farewell, XOXO
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Art & architecture in Chicago
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A week in Oaxaca
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Fort Worth’s world-renowned art and architecture
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Returning to New Mexico with the family
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Visiting two art gems outside New York City
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Staying at the TWA Flight Center
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Photos from NYC and Toronto
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Charming Guanajuato, Mexico
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Shot on Leica Q: Portland
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California
The Google visitor experience
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A weekend on San Francisco's Embarcadero
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First family trip to Los Angeles
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NorCal 2023 Mechanical Keyboard Meetup
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Mirage at Apple Park
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The Huntington Botanical Gardens
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A week in Palm Springs
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Winter in the Bay Area
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Visiting the Bay Area's only Case Study House
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A weekend at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge with the X100V
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Shot on Leica Q · San Francisco and Sausalito
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The Grand Turo
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The Saratoga Classic & Cool Car Show
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A weekend in LA
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Europe
Munich · Museums
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Munich · Streets, U-Bahn, Olympiapark
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A quick stop in Amsterdam
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Palma de Mallorca
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Cannes & Monaco
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Pisa & Florence
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Rome
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Naples & Pompeii
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Barcelona
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Seeing Europe by ship
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Asia
Art and culture in Singapore
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Shanghai Film Park
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Shanghai's automotive metamorphosis
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Being in Taipei as the pandemic hit
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Exploring Hong Kong
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Exploring China's Fujian Province
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Exploring Shanghai
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Journey through India
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Japan
My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 4
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My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 3
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My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 2
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My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 1
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Kyoto, Japan
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Japan · fertility festival
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Japan · museum guide
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Japan · cityscapes and cars
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Japan · culture and life
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Setups & guides
Home & desk setups
A desk setup for two
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The sensory experience of making coffee
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The evolution of the desk setup
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The art of the desk setup
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iPod speakers make the best smart speakers
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Guides
ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess
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How to use Automator to close all apps in one click
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The deep work guide to Slack
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The Three A's method for learning from other creators
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How I sort through a deluge of subscriptions
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Secure file cabinet on my Mac
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Personal websites
Choosing a static site generator for a personal site
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Where to build and host your personal website
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Miscellaneous
Announcements
2022 Holiday giveaway
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The arun.is newsletter
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Observations
The inescapable gravity of the smartphone
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Why we crave healthier computing
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Does gear matter?
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RIP DPReview
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Eight lessons from founding to Series C
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Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs
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Struggling to contribute to BLM
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Behind the scenes
Three pillars of my blogging philosophy
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Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations
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Inside arun.is · Table of contents
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Inside arun.is · camera illustrations
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Inside arun.is · Writing
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Introducing arun.is 2.0
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Inside arun.is · Technology
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Inside arun.is · Design
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Projects
Wallpapers inspired by iMac history
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Introducing Dieter Rams Wallpapers
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Leica Q3 concept
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How I built a modular bookcase
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