Thank You and Happy New Year!

I've been blessed to have over 308,000 site visits over the past few years. The site is dedicated to all things design from typography to architecture, interiors to industrial design and more. A mix of curated content, original posts and just plain inspiring design finds, the M blog has been a great vehicle to share learnings over the year. In 2016 I hope to post more original content than ever before. Stay tuned and comment on what you'd like to see moving forward. Cheers, M

Behind-The-Scenes :: Bad Robot :: Production : Storytelling

Year in Search -- Google

Brilliant Cover Design

designing a better experience -- real estate

telling stories

conceptual design

Strong example of a thoughtful concept merged with product features/benefits and a seamless design.
http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/nest-ooh-campaign.html

innovation

Goldberg on Frank

storytelling

making an i8

sound design

http://inhabitat.com/oversized-wooden-megaphones-in-estonia-amplify-the-sounds-of-the-forest/

living large

concept design :: NHL

sea stories

Sea Folk by Digital Kitchen from DIGITAL KITCHEN on Vimeo.

experience design :: architecture

Serra

all things architecture design

Kevin Kudo-King | From Cities to Door Pulls: A Design Process for all Scales (Part 1) from IDSA on Vimeo.

telling stories

all about design

Design / Craft

Check out these beautiful steel fire pits crafted by artisan metalworkers from Twisp, Washington. 

http://hotspotfirepits.com

product / experience design

http://www.coolhunting.com/buy/gramovox-floating-record-turntable-player

Storytelling

book design

inspired by http://snohetta.com/project/235-people-process-projects

Kinkfolk Home

Design Advice

mesmorizing

inventing the future :: designing material

auto design

http://www.designboom.com/technology/toyota-s-fr-entry-level-sports-car-10-11-2015/

Cabin P#@n!

Cabin Porn Book Trailer from Cabin Porn on Vimeo.

Design / Craft / Auto

CGI madness -- spec Tesla ad

Aviation Storytelling

Living in the Age of Airplanes — Trailer #1 from Terwilliger Productions on Vimeo.

Storytelling

design stories

yacht design

worth watching

modern hotel architecture

http://design-milk.com/ukrainian-hotel-city-dwellers-like-nature/relax-park-verholy_by_yod_5/

art of making

Creating retail brand experiences :: future of Apple

http://www.dezeen.com/2015/09/18/jonathan-ive-first-apple-store-interior-design-unveiled-brussels-belgium/

on architecture

https://vimeo.com/133688283

illustration as art

Huge fan of this work from boy
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/shop/ECB-NY-V4-04t.png

legend of art chantry

Really happy to see another published works on a legendary design mind in Seattle.
http://www.robertnewman.com/art-chantry-speaks/

Branding is still special

Branding in the physical realm will always be there. There is a tactile touch to experiencing a brand with all the detailed decisions that are made on color, type, paper, material, etc. No matter what becomes possible in the digital realm the physical environment where branding exists will always be critical to the human connection with consumers.

http://thefoxisblack.com/2015/09/08/pablo-rustys-coffee-branding-by-manual/

Worth watching -- live a creative life

Great story

Loved this article about the art of travel / experience in Fast Company. Check it out.

Apple HQ - drone style

illustrative work

http://builtbycivilization.com/project/design-lecture-series?c=4

Advice to young architects

Architecture -- Scaled

Creative Fears

Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces from 99U on Vimeo.

Bookshelf worthy

https://wmscoink.com/beauty_and_utility/products/a_designers_eye_paul_rand

editorial design

Architect Interview

inspiration for the day

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”– John Maeda

Cover Design

illustration -- animation

Why we create

Frequent Creative Collaborators :: kontent partners

From the archives :: book and editorial design for Chase Jarvis :: http://s100.chasejarvis.com