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Scorching
10 Year Challenge: how popular websites have changed → The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces → The design of Apple's credit card → The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners → The art of the desk setup → Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? → Rediscovering Apple's 1987 identity guidelines →
Hot
The new Mac Pro is a design remix → Leica T: eight years later → Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire → The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch → The untold history of macOS System Preferences → Wallpapers inspired by iMac history → Leica Q3 concept → Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design → The 16-year-old Leica Digilux 2 is still a great camera → Dieter Rams designed one of Gillette's most successful razors → Daylight at the end of the tunnel → Rams: a documentary portrait of a design legend → Elements of aircraft safety card design → The evolution of the desk setup → One month of Zwift on a cheap stationary bike → The deep work guide to Slack → The best city travel guides → A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer →
Warm
The tale of two Shanghais → INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone → The creative power of constraints → Leica’s engraved fonts → When Leica met Apple → Make Something Wonderful → The clever new design technique in the iPhone 11 pro → Two months with the Leica Q → A historical view on the Metropolitan Apple Watch face → Mirage at Apple Park → A skeptic's review of Apple Watch → Three books about Muji → Learning design from musicians → How I built a modular bookcase → How the Xbox got its good looks → A desk setup for two → Four books about Apple design → How to use Automator to close all apps in one click → My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 1 → Your native language affects how you see this image → Does gear matter? → Shot on Leica Q: Portland → Shanghai's automotive metamorphosis → Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit → The Three A's method for learning from other creators → Introducing Dieter Rams Wallpapers → Introducing arun.is 2.0 → Apple Watch Ultra succeeds where Watch Edition failed → Meishi: a tiny productivity system → The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow → My DIY modular charging station → Icon designer Louie Mantia's take on traditional Japanese playing cards → 40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum → Choosing a static site generator for a personal site → Three books about Sony design → Why we crave healthier computing → Louis Vuitton City Guides → Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs → The Huntington Botanical Gardens → Three books about Leica → Exploring Hong Kong → Go-to Mac apps and utilities → Is the Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson any good? → Mode Designs SixtyFive · a celebration of materials → Secure file cabinet on my Mac → iPod speakers make the best smart speakers → Aesthetics over upgrades → Fort Worth’s world-renowned art and architecture → When an architect designs a train → Where to build and host your personal website → Inside arun.is · Design → Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations → The sensory experience of making coffee → What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore? → Inside arun.is · camera illustrations → Sigma BF: less camera, more vision →
Mild
The hidden bond between the Porsche 911 and Leica M → Inside arun.is · Table of contents → My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 4 → How I sort through a deluge of subscriptions → Shift Happens preview → A visit to the Eames institute → My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 2 → My year-long sabbatical → A generative film about Brian Eno → Inside arun.is · Technology → Visiting two art gems outside New York City → City travel guides: honorable mentions → Are you designing a map or a path? → A weekend at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge with the X100V → The Google visitor experience → A weekend in LA → Shot on Leica Q · San Francisco and Sausalito → The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs → Kyoto, Japan → The Grand Turo → Inside arun.is · Photo storage → Quick visit to the Design Museum → See the best of Japan without leaving your home → Visiting the Bay Area's only Case Study House → Japan · culture and life → Journey through India → Farewell, XOXO → The inescapable gravity of the smartphone → Charming Guanajuato, Mexico → Drive My Car is a beautiful, picturesque film → Japan · museum guide → Exploring China's Fujian Province → Inside arun.is · Writing → Family adventures in Tokyo → The arun.is newsletter → ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess → NorCal 2023 Mechanical Keyboard Meetup → Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance → Art & architecture in Chicago → Japan · fertility festival → Exploring Shanghai → Three pillars of my blogging philosophy → Photowalk through Shanghai → First family trip to Los Angeles → A weekend on San Francisco's Embarcadero → Staying at the TWA Flight Center → Munich · Museums → Assemble with Care and the joy of fixing things → 2022 Holiday giveaway → Being in Taipei as the pandemic hit → Japan · cityscapes and cars → A week in Palm Springs → Eight lessons from founding to Series C → A week in Oaxaca → How Jane Ko wrote and published her own guide to Austin → Palma de Mallorca → Mexico City's embrace of culture → Suzhou twenty years later → Munich · Streets, U-Bahn, Olympiapark → Designing wearable tech history → Art and culture in Singapore → Hidden Taiwan: A weekend in Taoyuan & Yingge → Struggling to contribute to BLM → Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion → Taipei through the layers of time → My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 3 → Returning to New Mexico with the family → RIP DPReview → Winter in the Bay Area → Shanghai Film Park → Milwaukee's many faces → Seeing Europe by ship → Behind the scenes of making a children's board book → Photos from NYC and Toronto →