+Issue 83
User Experience
Neubrutalism is taking over the web
A new design style merges chaotic visuals with good typography
When AI delivers a better user experience than designers
What are our limitations as designers in this case?
Stop adding features to your product. Start crafting behaviors.
Analytics for behavioral funnels.
Digital Trust
Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a need exacerbated by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story
And new notices will help searchers check the validity of information
Design
Wang Zhi-Hong highlights the importance of typography in his considered book designs
Clever and structural, the Taiwanese designer’s latest body of work is his most refined yet.
Early Web Design Helped a Generation Express Themselves Online. How Do We Capture That Feeling Again?
Limited by the technology of the time, the pre-templatized web was vibrant and iterative
33 Letters for Ukraine: an Alphabet of Solidarity
Branding
A perfectly square logo in Ogilvy’s NY Phil rebrand references audiences around an orchestra
“There are a lot of reds”; Ogilvy navigates the “cliches” of designing for music and NYC institutions, as the New York Philharmonic becomes NY Phil.
Theatre Royal Sydney
Ahead of the refurbishment and reopening, Damien Hewitt & Trafalgar Entertainment engaged Christopher Doyle & Co to create a new identity for the theatre.
Inside the World of Olfactory Branding, Where Companies Make Their Name One Sniff at a Time
The next frontier in branding is all about your nose
Typography
Remix Stencil’s Forms Within Forms Make Waves
Italic? Roman? Why not both
“Comic Helvetic” is an experimental project inspired by “Comic Sans” and “Helvetica”.