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    Design, Graphics & Visual Media

    198 videos · 255 books · 202 blogs · 1 podcasts

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    The Beauty of Bézier Curves

    HN repeatedly calls it one of the best math and graphics explainers on YouTube, praised for bridging game dev and math.

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    Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars

    TED
    5.2M views • 11 years ago
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    Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie (English Subtitles & Video Joker) - Wakaliwood

    Official Wakaliwood
    11M views • 11 years ago
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    So... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways

    Technology Connextras
    706k views • 4 years ago
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    Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

    Computerphile
    2.1M views • 13 years ago
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    Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

    Meta VR
    141k views • 11 years ago
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    I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors

    Bisqwit
    905k views • 15 years ago
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    Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation

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    A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry

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    Cover of The Timeless Way of Building2008–2026

    The Timeless Way of Building

    Christopher Alexander
    67 recommend · 134
    Cover of Just my type2013–2022

    Just my type

    Simon Garfield
    7 recommend · 9
    Cover of Emotional Design2008–2026

    Emotional Design

    Donald A. Norman
    18 recommend · 39
    Cover of Girl, Woman, Other2019–2025

    Girl, Woman, Other

    Bernardine Evaristo
    4 recommend · 5
    Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray2008–2026

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde
    17 recommend · 42
    Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin
    2015–2026

    Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Walter Benjamin
    15 recommend · 29
    Cover of To Pixar and Beyond2016–2022

    To Pixar and Beyond

    Lawrence B. Levy
    4 recommend · 7
    Cover of Typographie2010–2021

    Typographie

    Emil Ruder
    4 recommend · 8
    Cover of The Color Purple2008–2026

    The Color Purple

    Alice Walker
    5 recommend · 16
    Cover of Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees2010–2016

    Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees

    Lawrence Weschler
    4 recommend · 6
    Cover of About Face2009–2026

    About Face

    Alan Cooper
    23 recommend · 39
    Cover of The Elements of Typographic Style2007–2026

    The Elements of Typographic Style

    Robert Bringhurst
    85 recommend · 157
    Cover of The animator's survival kit2010–2025

    The animator's survival kit

    Richard Williams
    11 recommend · 20
    Cover of Designing sound2016–2026

    Designing sound

    Andy Farnell
    10 recommend · 16

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    AlteredQualiaalteredqualia.com55 people

    Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL

    AlteredQualia
    Personal · last shared 2025
    The Creative Independentthecreativeindependent.com44 people

    How to balance full-time work with creative projects

    The Creative Independent
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    Paul Lewisaerotwist.com43 people

    React Performance

    Paul Lewis
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    Sketch Blogsketch.com44 people

    Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

    Sketch Blog
    Company · last shared 2026
    UX Collectiveuxdesign.cc430 people

    The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

    UX Collective
    Publication · last shared 2026
    Bjangobjango.com114 people

    The vocal effects of Daft Punk

    Bjango
    Company · last shared 2026
    Matt Pharrpharr.org80 people

    My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

    Matt Pharr
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Creative Applications Networkcreativeapplications.net90 people

    Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes

    Creative Applications Network
    Publication · last shared 2026

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    99% Invisible

    Roman Mars