Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Some fun highlights from this week's DARPA lift challenge

DARPA:

The DARPA Lift Challenge aims to shatter the heavy-lift bottleneck by seeking novel drone designs capable of carrying payloads more than four times their weight. This would revolutionize how we use drones across all sectors.

As military missions become more complicated, warfighters need more capable drones to use across diverse scenarios. The same applies to infrastructure inspection, package delivery, disaster response, and other civilian applications.

Current multirotor drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), are simple, affordable, and easy to operate. But their payload-to-weight ratio is low, typically 1:1 or less.

Meet the Teams

This account has posted lots of highlight clips:









Sunday, August 3, 2025

Really good ejection seat diagrams

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Good concept for Apple's AI assistant



Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Gallery of concert tickets

Small collection, but well-photographed with some great designs. And speaking of graphic design, 100 logos for use in the Cyberpunk RPG.

Friday, December 27, 2024

A good list of brand projects from 2024



My favorite is the space-themed one for Vast (I'd like a keychain), but Manual Creative's site basically crashed my phone, so I'd suggest viewing on desktop.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sriracha -themed font



Thursday, November 7, 2024

Vinyl album for "The Cure" features glow-in-the-dark and heat-activated elements





(Sould out I believe)

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Nike decided brown was the color to feature in a showcase moment




They look like they're covered in flow-viz:



Saturday, June 29, 2024

The ultra-limited edition of Cory Doctorow's novel "Red Team Blues" features a hidden interior pocket

Keep this in mind for the next time he announces a crowdfunding campaign with limited edition:

One of the rewards for [the crowdfunding campaign for Red Team Blues] was a very special hardcover: a handmade, leather-bound edition of Red Team Blues, typeset by the typography legend [John D. Berry, bound by the legendary book-artist John DeMerritt, and printed by the master printer JaVae Berry.]

But this wasn't a merely beautiful, well made book – it had a gimmick. You see, I had already completed the first draft of The Bezzle, the second Hench novel, by the time I launched the Kickstarter for Red Team Blues. I had John Berry lay out a tiny edition of that early draft as a quarter-sized book, and then John DeMerritt hand-bound it in card.

The reason that edition of The Bezzle had to be so small was that it was designed to slip into a hollow cavity in the hardcover, a cavity that John Berry had designed the type around, so that both books could be read and enjoyed.


Thursday, May 23, 2024

NASA logo and shuttle concept




From the same Twitter account: