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In short, black and white logo marks no longer cover all colours. There are certain circumstances in which black and white logos could cover use of the marks in different colours, provided a change only in colour would not alter the distinctive character of the mark.

everynoise.com is and was a projection of things I worked on at the Echo Nest, and then Spotify. As of this morning, I'm not working there, and I expect most of the things I did will no longer be done. The domain is mine, but the processes that updated the site have already stopped running, and the current server may stop serving at any moment. Once that happens, I will try to bring back at least a wistful memorial to what it was.

Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

There is a long-standing free-market complaint about Japan’s "over-investment" in public infrastructure, but in recent years, I’ve realized how clean and reliable subways, sidewalks, and public roads don't just make the city more livable, but more equitable, as well. Everyone can enjoy good public transportation, no matter their socioeconomic background (and many wealthy people ride the subway here). The train station near the San'ya “slum” is just as clean as the train station in posh Omotesando.

Such AI-driven dynamic pricing is already a reality in mainland Europe, as grocery retailers such as DIA in Spain, Iper in Italy, Metro in Germany, and Hoogvliet in the Netherlands are rolling out the technology.

We strive to be the most trusted place to find honest product information. We work tirelessly to make Looria the go-to platform when making purchase decisions.

Toggle switches should take immediate effect and should not require the user to click Save or Submit to apply the new state. As always, we should strive to match the system to the real world.

This sounds obvious, but it's amazing how many things billed as strategy within an organisation don't bear any relation to the business strategy. Sometimes this is impossible to do because there isn't a business strategy, or there isn't one that makes sense in the real world. People just... do stuff.

Two popup windows are launched - the main game window and the paddle window [...] Paddle window has a nested game! You need to win in both the windows.

I was just thinking about Iain Banks, but then really that happens most months.

Naming things needn’t be hard

159 works in the same way as 101 for the police or 111 for the NHS. It’s the number you can trust to get you through to your bank safely and securely, every time.

Didn't know about this service.

We're building a new platform to allow fans to connect with, and financially support their favourite musicians. It will be 100% run by and for the benefit of musicians, fans and the people who make it. A platform co-operative.

A practical guide to understanding trademarks in the context of Free and Open Source Software projects.

Only one I've found that does Scottish + dividends + year selector.

Search for your work in popular AI training datasets

Which is to say that the internet doesn’t make sense in aggregate anymore and trying to view it as a monolith only gives you bad, confusing, and, oftentimes, wrong impressions of what’s actually going on.

We’ve got a whole new Verge for you today. Radically new. Sometimes you just have to blow things up and start over. Yes, we have a sharp new logo that started…

My argument is that, for all the often good intentions behind purpose, it’s a fundamentally flawed way of thinking about ethics in business and marketing: one that not only leads to worse marketing, but also leads to worse social outcomes.

In other words, if we outsource the creative process, we also outsource thinking. Making is deeply connected with thinking. If you want to learn or develop something new, you have to go through a painful process if you want it to be worth something.

A snappy, but not a particularly representative quote. This is arguing for doing the thing to learn properly, later augmenting with AI.

A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.

A digital museum of video game levels

American SF from the 1950s to the 1990s contains all the raw ingredients of what has been identified as the Californian ideology (evangelized through the de-facto house magazine, WIRED). It's rooted in uncritical technological boosterism and the desire to get rich quick. Libertarianism and it's even more obnoxious sibling Objectivism provide a fig-leaf of philosophical legitimacy for cutting social programs and advocating the most ruthless variety of dog-eat-dog politics. Longtermism advocates overlooking the homeless person on the sidewalk in front of you in favour of maximizing good outcomes from charitable giving in the far future. And it gels neatly with the Extropian and Transhumanist agendas of colonizing space, achieving immortality, abolishing death, and bringing about the resurrection (without reference to god). These are all far more fun to contemplate than near-term environmental collapse and starving poor people. Finally, there's accelerationism: the right wing's version of Trotskyism, the idea that we need to bring on a cultural crisis as fast as possible in order to tear down the old and build a new post-apocalyptic future.

The best UI, though, is no UI at all, or rather, just one UI, by which I mean “Universal Interface”.

Most public services deteriorated in the decade from 2010 under the pressure of austerity, and then deteriorated again during the pandemic. It is not easy to see how they will recover, since many years of weak economic growth have left the UK somehow achieving the trifecta of high taxes, chronic budget deficits and inadequate public services.

Good times.

The culprit is technically rising interest rates, but you could argue it began when founders and investors started to see the downside of swinging for the power law. The first venture funds formed as a way for savvy investors to help innovators create fundamental technologies like transistors, which required huge outlays of time and treasure before they could produce value. But in the past few years, causality inverted: Start-ups and entire markets were manufactured from whole cloth to meet the demand of overcapitalized venture funds searching for a home run.

Polite counter to Kent C Dodd's Why I Won't Use Next.js.

Geist embodies our design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Forked from Inter, apparently

When I transitioned from Angular.js to React, I left a lot of Angular.js behind me. All of the time I had invested at getting really good at Angular.js felt like a huge waste. I don’t want that to ever happen to me again. So I prefer to focus on a framework that can not only give me what I want from the user experience perspective, but can also give me skills that I can use wherever I develop for the web.

As far as I am aware, I am a mentally healthy, well-adjusted, and sane person with no disorders. But I have a strange, fairly innocuous quirk which seems beyond my control and I'm curious about it...

Er, yeah, it me too.

Founded in 2015, Pleo is a fintech platform that provides businesses with expense solutions and automated financial management tools. Their goal is to centralise every accounting or expense-related work into a unique, simple platform.

... or more accurately: bad mobile-first web design.

Humans like being together. Here’s the truth: Everybody moves to cities, not just because of their jobs but because of their sociability.

As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.