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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 →
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The deep work guide to Slack → The best city travel guides → A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer → The tale of two Shanghais → INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone → The creative power of constraints → When Leica met Apple → Make Something Wonderful → Leica’s engraved fonts → 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 → How to use Automator to close all apps in one click → Four books about Apple design → 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 →
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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 → The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow → Meishi: a tiny productivity system → 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 → Why we crave healthier computing → Three books about Sony design → Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs → Louis Vuitton City Guides → 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 → When an architect designs a train → Fort Worth’s world-renowned art and architecture → Where to build and host your personal website → Inside arun.is · Design → Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations → Aesthetics over upgrades → The sensory experience of making coffee → What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore? → Inside arun.is · camera illustrations → Sigma BF: less camera, more vision → Inside arun.is · Table of contents → My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 4 → The hidden bond between the Porsche 911 and Leica M → 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 → A generative film about Brian Eno → Inside arun.is · Technology → My year-long sabbatical →
Cold
Are you designing a map or a path? → City travel guides: honorable mentions → Visiting two art gems outside New York City → A weekend at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge with the X100V → The Google visitor experience → A weekend in LA → The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs → Shot on Leica Q · San Francisco and Sausalito → 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 → Japan · culture and life → Visiting the Bay Area's only Case Study House → 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 → The arun.is newsletter → ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess → NorCal 2023 Mechanical Keyboard Meetup → Japan · fertility festival → Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance → Art & architecture in Chicago → Family adventures in Tokyo → Exploring Shanghai → Three pillars of my blogging philosophy → First family trip to Los Angeles → Staying at the TWA Flight Center → A weekend on San Francisco's Embarcadero → Photowalk through Shanghai → 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 → Suzhou twenty years later → Munich · Streets, U-Bahn, Olympiapark →
Freezing
Mexico City's embrace of culture → Art and culture in Singapore → Struggling to contribute to BLM → Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion → Designing wearable tech history → Hidden Taiwan: A weekend in Taoyuan & Yingge → 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 → Seeing Europe by ship → Behind the scenes of making a children's board book → Photos from NYC and Toronto → Rome → Barcelona → Pisa & Florence → Milwaukee's many faces → A quick stop in Amsterdam → Cannes & Monaco → Naples & Pompeii → The Saratoga Classic & Cool Car Show → My DIY modular charging station →