is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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On my way home from a weekend trip to Washington, D.C., I passed a guy selling random goods — used books, used records, discarded knick-knacks — on the First Avenue sidewalk. I’m not talking about a flea market table, even; this stuff was literally spread out on the concrete. Among the items he had for sale was this beautiful 
Yahoo! is on a redesign kick, apparently. They’ve launched a 
Desktop publishing doesn’t really get a lot of press anymore, but it’s truly amazing how far it’s come, even in the past ten years. A 
Forbes Magazine has a catty if amusing article on 
Francis Lam’s 
It was so hectic getting this out the door that I completely forgot to post notice of it here. Well, here’s the deal: on Wednesday, 
Welcome back to design portal extraordinaire 
The redesigned 