The Tremendo.us/ness Blog

The cult of busy, architects at work, Pixar in a box, how QuarkXPress self-destructed, and more.

In many ways, this is the most difficult part of a project. We can design, we can draw, we can write. But what do we know about arches, architecture, or anything? Not much, so let's do some research.

Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling adapted for UX, the NASA logo, app prototyping tools, Susan Kare, the Lytro camera, news homepages, and more.

National Geographic had to change its atlas due to shrinking ice, Google's Alphabet (Alphabet's Google?), Felicia Day's new book, your "gut feeling," Netscape IPO'd 20 years ago this week, and more.

Kurt Vonnegut's rejected (and visual) Master's thesis, the story behind the failure of Google+, yet more on Slack, internet "inspiration," 1,000 musicians play the same song at the same time, and more

Voyager's golden record, the inside story of 34¢ 'Greetings from America' stamps, a history of icons, finding local 3D printers, and more.

When you visit St. Louis's Gateway Arch, which turns 50 this year, and you walk up to its broad metal base you can't help but be struck by just how huge it is and by how incredibly solid it looks. It'

Life post-Pixar, explaining graphic design to four-year-olds, the 32-hour workweek, "How Buildings Learn" BBC series, how the legendary Chuck Jones became a great artist, and more.

Historical heroes who loved charts, the science of "Inside Out", linkmoji, business strategy traps, the Herman Miller picnic posters of Steve Frykholm, and more.

Storytelling, semicolon tattoos, Eero Saarinen's 1962 TWA terminal, the tyranny of the telephone, startup horror stories, and more.