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A striking landing page for a craft beer brand in Bali. Combines warm tropical aesthetics with premium craft positioning, featuring bold typography, modular content sections, and seamless product showcase design.

An in-depth interview with concept artist Rhys Yorke about designing screen graphics and UI for The Expanse TV series. Explores how interface design can establish distinct visual identities for different factions and support storytelling without drawing attention to itself.

An in-depth analysis of typography and design in Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. Examines how typeface choices, including customized Futura and Helvetica variants, establish the Nostromo's utilitarian aesthetic and contribute to worldbuilding and narrative tension.

Text-to-image models now generate graphic design at production scale, yet their supervision still comes primarily from photo-style preference datasets with a single overall verdict per comparison. Designers evaluate designs along several distinct axes (e.g., typography, layout, color harmony) that a single preference label collapses. We release \emph{TASTE} \textit{(Typography, Aesthetics, Spatial, Tone, Etc.)}, a multi-dimensional preference dataset in which two disjoint cohorts of five professional designers each ranked outputs from four current text-to-image models across nine criteria along with per-image hallucination flags. We pair the dataset with two contributions. First, a criterion-agnostic signal-validation framework based on Kendall's $τ$, majority-vote probability, and Condorcet cycles against exact iid-uniform nulls; the analysis reveals significant but moderate designer agreement, with every TASTE criterion rejecting the random-rater null. Second, we benchmark preference models on TASTE and find that off-the-shelf VLM judges and dedicated T2I scorers fail to reach majority agreement with the designer panel, while a small MLP head trained directly on TASTE substantially narrows the gap to the single-rater ceiling, setting a baseline for future TASTE-trained preference models.

TRMNL has open-sourced Framework, the design system behind its ePaper dashboard devices — billed as the first UI kit built...

Independent type foundry specializing in custom typeface design. Offers a curated selection of contemporary fonts with focus on quality typography and craftsmanship.

Open-source typefaces from the Braille Institute designed for maximum readability and accessibility. Includes Atkinson Hyperlegible, a freely available font optimized for clarity with distinct character shapes and excellent legibility for all readers.

An exploration of how Michelangelo's historic lettering from Vatican archives influenced modern typography and is featured in Microsoft Word fonts.