Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. Paul Rand's La Linea exemplifies this principle, evolving from a cookware mascot to a beloved character.
Thomas Slim immersed their new EDC fountain pen in water for 24 hours, pulled it out, and it wrote immediately. They dropped both the fountain pen and rollerball versions fifteen times from one metre onto concrete, and aside from minor ink on the nib face, both kept writing without issue.
The Type Sigma hides every seam, every panel gap, every hint of how it might actually be built. The body looks like a single piece of fabric pulled taut over a frame, finished in matte gray that emphasizes form over finish.
Chris is a genuine anomaly in the media landscape. He consistently takes on projects that are difficult to execute under high-pressure deadlines, maintaining a calm demeanor and a contagiously positive attitude.
When you paste your perfectly formatted article and what happens? The headers show literal ## symbols. Bold text keeps the asterisks. Code blocks lose all formatting. Tables? They just break completely.
The most obvious example is the adoption of the singular 'they' to replace clunky constructions like 'he or she' and 'he/she.' Language purists argue that this is ungrammatical, even though 'they' has been employed in just this way by authors as diverse as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickinson, and Shaw.
"We're constantly striving to strike a balance between work that respects academic rules of composition, established visual codes and good readability, with something more spontaneous, adventurous, playful, even naive."
While you might know Kagi best as the paid competitor to Google's ever-worsening search product, the company launched its Kagi Translate tool back in 2024, saying at the time that it was a 'simply better' competitor to tools like Google Translate and DeepL. At launch, the company said Kagi Translate 'uses a combination of LLMs, selecting and optimizing the best output for each task,' a fact that 'can occasionally lead to quirks that we're actively working to resolve.'
We present the 5500FP, a 24-trit balanced ternary RISC processor implemented on FPGA, with a 120-instruction ISA, native atomic synchronization primitives, and an open hardware development board. The design demonstrates the practical feasibility of balanced ternary computing on modern reconfigurable hardware, providing a concrete platform for research into non-binary architectures without the barrier of custom silicon development.
I developed the book's grid and typographic style in collaboration with designer David Carroll, then laid out the book myself, focusing on clean design that allows the imagery to breathe. The aim was to create something that feels timeless and functional, rather than overly stylised.
The worst ones are when people have their own name tattooed on them. McGregor's got that actually, Gaethje's got that. I just think it's just weird. Why are you that stupid? Do you need to remember your own name by looking in the mirror?
People kept using the same word - 'iconic' - whether they were thirty, fifty or seventy." The team interviewed staff who'd just joined and staff who'd been there for twenty years, customers since the 80s, locals, online shoppers, and LGBTQIA+ community members, revealing the bookshop's legendary status across generations and demographics.
The corrective fluid analysed using light infrared photography revealed a mixture of huntite and calcite, while images made using a 3D digital microscope show that there also are flecks of yellow orpiment, probably to make it blend in better with the fresh papyrus, which would have originally been pale cream in colour.
