Collections

Archives & Collections

• An interactive guide to color & contrast

• Web Dev, Accessibility, Graphic Design
• colorandcontrast.com
• “A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.”

• A11Y Style Guide

• Web Dev, Accessibility
• a11y-style-guide.com
• “The A11Y style guide comes with pre-populated accessible components that include helpful links to related tools, articles, and WCAG guidelines to make your site more inclusive.”

• archives.design

• Graphic Design
• archives.design
• “A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives.”

• One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age

• Internet Lore
• blog.geocities.institute
• Ongoing archive (since 2010) of now-defunct GeoCities pages as relics of web 1.0.

• Internet Artifacts

• Internet Lore
• neal.fun
• A collection of Internet artifacts.

• The Level Design Book

• Level Design
• leveldesignbook.com
• “The Level Design Book gathers level design knowledge for 3D video games in an approachable, up-to-date, and critical way. It is for designers of all experience levels and game engines.”

• Use & Modify

• Fonts
• usemodify.com
• “[...] A personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces. Open source licenses make them free to use and modify.”

Articles

• From My to Me

• Internet
• interfacecritique.net
• “Where My was dangerous, Me was perfect. Me is cheap, Me is easy to control, Me is easy to channel, Me is slave of its own reflection, Me is a slave of the platforms that make the reflection glossy. Me is data. Me is data closest to metadata. This makes Me just perfect to satisfy advertisers and to sate neural networks.”

• Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash

• Accident Investigation
• asteriskmag.com
• “The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.”

• Doors of McMurdo

• Infrastructure
• brr.fyi
• I am also “easily entertained by infrastructure, operations, logistics, and ‘systems’ in general”, so this is right up my alley. Doors of the Antarctica research station McMurdo and what they tell of the strcutures and needs of those who live and work there.

• Looking Around: All Buildings Are Interesting

• Infrastructure
• mcmansionhell.com
• “Consider this statement: All buildings are interesting. There is not a single building that isn’t interesting in some way – it does not imply that all buildings are ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or that all buildings are Important Architecture® – only that they are interesting.”

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

• UX Design
• interactionmagic.com
• “Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let's hope the control panel is up to scratch. Welcome to the world of LEGO UX design.”