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Virtual Pets, Nostalgia, and Engravings
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Rust, Film, and Pixel-Peepin’
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Mirrors, Sandwiches, and Phone-Holes
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Doodles, Distortion, and Elaborate Intros
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Buckets, Poop, and Trees
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Cursed UI and Beautiful Blocks
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Designing Space Mission Patches
Discover how Katherine Bjelke creates space mission patches that blend storytelling, symbolism, and design to capture the essence of exploration.
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Virtual Pets, Nostalgia, and Engravings
and satisfying micro-interactions
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Buckets, Poop, and Trees
Tree-planting apps, weird chess pieces, turd-coloured trends, and twinkles (of course!)
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Doodles, Distortion, and Elaborate Intros
And alpine cheese, of course.
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Japan, Saturn, and Mice
From Japan's artsy manhole covers to London's transport-inspired packaging, with a dash of public domain inspo and tech nostalgia. Plus the cutest mouse…
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Cursed UI and Beautiful Blocks
Aiming for disaster is really useful, sometimes.
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The Shell-Out 🐢
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Rainbows, Squiggles, and Expensive Chairs
Google's plan to make phones less boring, mid-century chair art, design rules that actually work, and more cool design finds.
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Mirrors, Sandwiches, and Phone-Holes
Don’t forget the chisels, too.
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Rust, Film, and Pixel-Peepin’
Discover the best film-look camera app, AI tools, space mission patches, risograph animation, and more in this month’s creative roundup.
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Virtual Pets, Nostalgia, and Engravings
and satisfying micro-interactions
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Tom Ayling 🐢
3
Buckets, Poop, and Trees
Tree-planting apps, weird chess pieces, turd-coloured trends, and twinkles (of course!)
 • 
Tom Ayling 🐢
2
Doodles, Distortion, and Elaborate Intros
And alpine cheese, of course.
 • 
Tom Ayling 🐢
Japan, Saturn, and Mice
From Japan's artsy manhole covers to London's transport-inspired packaging, with a dash of public domain inspo and tech nostalgia. Plus the cutest mouse…
 • 
Tom Ayling 🐢
2
Cursed UI and Beautiful Blocks
Aiming for disaster is really useful, sometimes.
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Tom Ayling 🐢
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