Design

Emojis: The Complete History 📚📖

Emojis: The Complete History. Emojis have become an integral part of our daily communication. So much so that it’s hard to imagine a time before the characters graced our screens. But they do have an origin story, and it’s underpinned by a fascinating journey across the globe (Spoiler Alert: Apple didn’t invent emojis). Join me

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Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief

Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief. Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design. Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief. For the past six years, Marcus Engman has successfully made Ikea weird. As the company’s head

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Low-Tech Magazine launches radical solar-powered website

Low-Tech Magazine launches a radical solar-powered website. Last month, Low-Tech Magazine quietly published a completely redesigned site for its technology- and energy-focused journalism that looks radical by comparison. The premise is simple: Less. Unlike millions of other dynamic sites on the internet today that retrieve each piece of content from a database any time someone

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