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Apple

Aesthetics over upgrades
Apple Watch Ultra succeeds where Watch Edition failed
What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore?
The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners
A historical view on the Metropolitan Apple Watch face
The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch
The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces
The untold history of macOS System Preferences
The clever new design technique in the iPhone 11 pro
The new Mac Pro is a design remix
The design of Apple's credit card
Rediscovering Apple's 1987 identity guidelines

Digital design

Leica’s engraved fonts
Are you designing a map or a path?
10 Year Challenge: how popular websites have changed
Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?

Graphic design

Japanese symbols that speak without words
How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
Elements of aircraft safety card design
Your native language affects how you see this image

Industrial design

Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that
When the cheap one is the cool one
Sigma BF: less camera, more vision
The hidden bond between the Porsche 911 and Leica M
When Leica met Apple
How the Xbox got its good looks
The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow
Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone
The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs
Dieter Rams designed one of Gillette's most successful razors

Infrastructure

Japan's invisible electric wall
When an architect designs a train

Reviews & interviews

Books

Love Hultén Works
Naoto Fukasawa’s without thought catalogs
Four books about Apple design
Three books about Sony design
Make Something Wonderful
Three books about Muji
Shift Happens preview
Three books about Leica
See the best of Japan without leaving your home
Louis Vuitton City Guides
Learning design from musicians
City travel guides: honorable mentions
The best city travel guides

Cameras

A love letter to the Leica CL
Leica T: eight years later
Is the Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson any good?
The 16-year-old Leica Digilux 2 is still a great camera
Two months with the Leica Q

Exhibitions

Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit
A visit to the Eames institute
40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum

Games

Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance
Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion
Assemble with Care and the joy of fixing things

Interviews

Behind the scenes of making a children's board book
Icon designer Louie Mantia's take on traditional Japanese playing cards
How Jane Ko wrote and published her own guide to Austin

Objects

Daylight at the end of the tunnel
Mode Designs SixtyFive · a celebration of materials
A skeptic's review of Apple Watch
A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer

Software

One month of Zwift on a cheap stationary bike
Go-to Mac apps and utilities

Video

A generative film about Brian Eno
Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
Drive My Car is a beautiful, picturesque film
Rams: a documentary portrait of a design legend

Photoessays

California

Map of California

North America

Map of North America

Europe

Map of Europe

Japan

Map of Japan

Asia

Map of Asia

Setups & guides

Home & desk setups

A desk setup for two
The sensory experience of making coffee
The evolution of the desk setup
The art of the desk setup
iPod speakers make the best smart speakers

Guides

On running: principles and gear
ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess
How to use Automator to close all apps in one click
The deep work guide to Slack
The Three A's method for learning from other creators
How I sort through a deluge of subscriptions
Secure file cabinet on my Mac

Personal websites

Choosing a static site generator for a personal site
Where to build and host your personal website

Miscellaneous

Announcements

Five years of the arun.is newsletter
2022 Holiday giveaway
The arun.is newsletter

Observations

Good bye, Om Malik
The year in review: 2025
The creative power of constraints
My year-long sabbatical
The inescapable gravity of the smartphone
Why we crave healthier computing
Does gear matter?
RIP DPReview
Eight lessons from founding to Series C
Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs
Struggling to contribute to BLM

Behind the scenes

Ai-enhanced writing process
Introducing arun.is 3.0
Inside arun.is · Photo storage
Three pillars of my blogging philosophy
Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations
Inside arun.is · Table of contents
Inside arun.is · camera illustrations
Inside arun.is · Writing
Introducing arun.is 2.0
Inside arun.is · Technology
Inside arun.is · Design

Projects

Introducing Daily Designer
Hello, Liquid Glass
My DIY modular charging station
Designing wearable tech history
Meishi: a tiny productivity system
Wallpapers inspired by iMac history
Introducing Dieter Rams Wallpapers
Leica Q3 concept
How I built a modular bookcase