➕ The Conditions 99
The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team, Anthony Burrill’s ephemera archive, Aston Martin's new logo...
+Issue 99
User Experience
The Verge is running an Accessibility Week
Technology promises a universally accessible world — and only sometimes manages to deliver…
How the ride-sharing revolution failed passengers with disabilities
Uber and Lyft could have stepped up when public transportation fell short — but over a decade later, activists still fight for equitable service
Inside the dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team
Apple’s design team is legendary. But following the death of Steve Jobs, dysfunction ran rampant, as Tripp Mickle writes in the new book ‘After Steve.’
AI & Machine Learning
MegaPortraits: High-Res Deepfakes Created From a Single Photo
Open AI Jukebox
Jukebox is a neural net that generates music in a variety of genres and styles of existing bands or musicians. It also generates singing (or something like singing anyway).
Below is an example that really stopped me in my tracks this week. My Heart Will Go On in the style of Johnny Cash, generated based on the lyrics only (ie the melody is novel):
DALL·E Now Available in Beta
1 million people from the waitlist will be invited to join over the coming weeks. Users can create with DALL·E using free credits that refill every month, and buy additional credits in 115-generation increments for $15.
Design
Knowing Your Design History is Crucial to Aesthetic Innovation
Style cycles in and out of fashion—history helps us decode the present and forecast the future
Supreme released Memphis-inspired skateboard decks. Retail outlets like American Apparel regurgitated the iconic and kitschy geometry. Today, London-based graphic artist, Camille Walala, represents the logical endpoint to Memphis’s style evolution, elevating the work back into high culture with her refreshed Memphis-inspired interior design at high-end boutique Opening Ceremony in Tokyo.
Uncovering the mystery of Anthony Burrill’s new online archive of design ephemera
“I worked like an archaeologist”: the designer reflects on unearthing years of design clippings for the free site, from tearings from the Yellow Pages to old train tickets.
View the archive here
Client Red Flags: how to spot the warning signs of a toxic creative relationship
From “We’re all family” to “This should just be a quick one”, we’ve put together a guide to client red flags that will help you avoid creative, financial and spiritual ruin.
Branding
Peter Saville has redrawn the Aston Martin wings
The car manufacturer has updated its branding, adapting the 95-year-old wing logo with what Saville describes as “subtle but necessary enhancements”
Typography
TDC Global Ascenders 3 Competition: the winners
The Type Directors Club announced the versatile list of winners bringing 25 young designers from 13 countries into the limelight through Ascenders aka “the world’s premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms”
Meet Ange Degheest, Pioneering 20th-Century Female Type Designer
“Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent” is the motto of this stunning student project