Ikea’s 2017 Catalog Is A Terrifying Glimpse Into The Tiny Apartments Of The Future
Time to move to Alaska, kids. The cities are officially full. Micro apartments. They’re all…
Author John Brownlee
John Brownlee
John Brownlee is a writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with two irate parakeets and his wife, who has more exquisite plumage. His work has appeared at Wired, Playboy, PopMech, CNN, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, and more.
Why Is The Home Automation Industry So Obsessed With Voice Control?
Companies have anointed voice the OS of home automation. But as Mark Zuckerberg found out…
What The World’s Biggest Brands Would Look Like As Weapons
Facebook, McDonald’s, Google, and more look surprisingly at home branding nukes and ICBMs. From below,…
What The WikiLeaks Emails Reveal About Branding Hillary
But for one passionate defender, Pentagram could have been replaced as the designer of the…
Meetup’s New Brand Identity: Now Less Awkward Than Meeting IRL
“The moment we realized it had to go was when we realized that our logo…
What’s The Greatest Logo Of All Time?
From IBM to I ❤ NY, designers at Pentagram, Moving Brands, Under Consideration, and more…
5 Design Jobs That Won’t Exist In The Future
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague,…
TYPEcasting the brand!
Type Is The Most Important Element Of Your Company’s Brand “Type is your brand,” says…
Why Designers Should Be A Little More Shameless
Working Not Working’s Justin Gignac explains how he went from selling NYC garbage online to…
Beyond The Whiteboard: Rethinking How Business Schools Teach Design
At Yale, Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand are teaching tomorrow’s executives to think like designers—but…