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Television
fromKotaku
3 days ago

My Favorite Way To Watch Classic VHS Movies Is In Retro Rewind

Retro Rewind allows players to customize in-game TVs with their own video files, enhancing the nostalgic rental store experience.
Digital life
fromwww.dw.com
6 days ago

The pleasure of books in the digital age

The debate over digital archiving versus physical books highlights the unique engagement and sensory experience that books provide in a digital age.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Video games possess unique aesthetic value that challenges traditional philosophical frameworks of games and fiction.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Designing with Living Matter: 5 Installations Using Bio-Based Materials and Digital Fabrication

Architecture must integrate ecological considerations and material intelligence to transform design practices and reduce environmental impact.
Television
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Samsung's Frame Pro TV Looks Like Art on Your Wall

The Samsung Frame Pro art TV offers impressive artwork display features and customizable bezels, enhancing its aesthetic appeal beyond traditional television use.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

May You Live in Interesting Times - The IFPDA Print Fair Asks, Do Bad Times Really Inspire Great Art?

The IFPDA Print Fair showcases 80 exhibitors displaying printmaking from Goya to Walker, demonstrating how artists use prints as therapy and critique during times of crisis and political turmoil.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
Digital life
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Apple Studio Display and the Future of Creative Workflows

The new Studio Display enhances creative exchange with advanced features, positioning screens as central to communication and user experience.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Like a DVD in the present tense': are we ready for film distribution via USB drives?

Video StoreAge offers indie films on USB drives as a middle ground between corporate streaming rentals and expensive physical media, combining ownership with digital convenience.
Books
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer

Syracuse University Libraries provides practical tips for salvaging water-damaged books through a visual guide with both intuitive and specialized restoration techniques.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in space as a 3D image within the frame. That could be a video of a child's first steps or a snapshot of a birthday party. The image will be displayed in 3D form, viewable in all its holographic glory across nearly 170 degrees.
Gadgets
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

instant camera box prints receipt-like photos using thermal heat

The brain of the instant camera that prints receipt-like photos is a Raspberry Pi Zero, which is a fully functional computer roughly the size of a credit card. Then, there's a dedicated camera module that connects to the board using a flat ribbon cable and handles the actual image capture.
Photography
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Lydia Chodosh probes design rules through archiving and cataloguing

Designer Lydia Chodosh interrogates how knowledge is acquired and transmitted through language, archival systems, and interdisciplinary design practice informed by literature, publishing, and visual communication.
Arts
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

Longevity and Obsoletion Impress Upon Alexander Endrullat's Intaglio Prints

Artist Alexander Endrullat creates prints by running discarded laptops through a century-old printing press, revealing device destruction and internal structures while commenting on consumption and planned obsolescence.
Independent films
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a microscope

A digital microscope can reveal analog video data encoded on LaserDiscs through pit patterns, allowing visualization of content like film credits.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Archiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems

The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
Science
History
fromMedievalists.net
4 weeks ago

Medieval Manuscripts to Be Displayed at EXPO Chicago 2026 - Medievalists.net

Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 15th-16th centuries will be featured at EXPO Chicago 2026, showcasing how collectors and audiences continue to value medieval book art today.
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

The real reason a boomer's wallet is three inches thick and held together with a rubber band isn't disorganization-every card, receipt, photo, and folded note in there is a filing system for a life that was built before anything could be stored in a cloud, and that wallet is the last physical archive of a person who doesn't trust the invisible - Silicon Canals

If you grew up in an era where important documents meant physical papers, where proof of payment was a carbon copy receipt, and where your identity was verified by cards you could hold, wouldn't you be skeptical of being told all that could just float somewhere in 'the cloud'? For boomers, physical objects are anchors to reality.
Digital life
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Oops, Typo! A New Exhibition Embraces 500 Years of Printed Mistakes

What we found was that errata sheets were not only spaces for corrections but also sites of humor, legal maneuvering, and reinterpretation. With this exhibition, we wanted to share ways in which even small corrections can reshape meaning and authority.
Arts
Fashion & style
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Vintage Arab cassette tapes inspire Sometimes Always' warm identity for Fatouh Harissa

Foutah Harrissa rebranded with a bolder, fiery red wordmark and warm earthy tones while maintaining Tunisian heritage through handcrafted textiles and vintage Arab-inspired geometric framing devices.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

Unveiling Nostalgia: Dominic Albano's Edgy Polaroid Series

My approach to fashion isn't rooted in traditional design; it begins with imagery. He envisions clothing not merely as fabric but as an integral element of storytelling within striking visuals. Queer photographers from another era ignite my creativity far more than the mere act of making garments.
Photography
fromKotaku
1 month ago

The Zoomer Obsession With DVDs Is A Blueprint For Saving Gaming - Kotaku

Physical media sales, DVDs especially, are experiencing a new burst of popularity. After a decade of freefall, enthusiasm among Gen Z halved a 20 percent sales decline in 2024 to just 9 percent in 2025. Stores have noticed. The Times' Karla Gachet spoke with staff at cultural hubs like Cinefile and Vidiots to discover why 2026 is already shaping up to be their biggest year, with the latter renting a surprising 1,000 DVDs a week.
Media industry
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Video Craft exhibition explores how video, film, and early moving image technologies share formal and technical properties with traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass through encoding, looping, and sampling.
Miscellaneous
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Error 404: Architectural Memory in the Age of Algorithms

Architectural archives have always been instruments of power that determine what counts as architecture and how history is told, whether through institutional curation or digital algorithms.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

The inquiry was like thousands of others. Somebody had potentially cool films they thought might interest the Library of Congress. But it was brand new for Jason Evans Groth... In September, he stepped outside the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, to meet Bill and Mary McFarland, who had driven from Michigan with about 40 strips of celluloid that had once belonged to Bill's great-grandfather.
Independent films
Podcast
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The surge of video podcasts raises an awkward question for the industry: Why do we still call them 'podcasts'?

The definition of 'podcast' has expanded from asynchronous talk radio to any episodic audio or video content with people speaking, making the original term increasingly obsolete as consumption shifts toward video-based formats.
Digital life
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Rise of Analogue Nostalgia

Analogue nostalgia—longing for physical, offline media—drives people to choose complicated, expensive technologies over simpler digital alternatives despite digitalization's convenience.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions now offer 3D digital models of artworks, enabling detailed examination of textures, materials, and hidden details impossible to see in person or through standard digital images.
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

50 Historical Photos That Are So Shocking, They're Changing My Perception Of The Entire World

I recently gained a new obsession, and I'm ready to share it with the world: finding and analyzing rare vintage images. A picture speaks a thousand words, and these photographs tell us more about history than a textbook chapter ever could. So even if you think history is boring, I'm well-equipped to change your mind, and give you some delicious food for your brain to chew on today.
History
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

This archival book celebrates the bygone eras of the humble crisp packet

Helping people to reconnect with old memories, viewers are transported to their local corner shop, school playgrounds and childhood cupboards. "I think this project has struck a chord because there's a particular interest in hand drawn designs of the past in the current age of AI where human effort is at an all-time low. Now the first thought is 'I'll get AI to do that', rather than commissioning an illustrator," says Chris.
Graphic design
Science
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says

Borosilicate glass plates can store multi-terabyte data with femtosecond laser encoding and survive accelerated aging indicating potential 10,000-year retention as a durable archival medium.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Analog is back, and my millennial heart couldn't be happier | Tayo Bero

Usually, my handbag is a medley of digital devices and life essentials my phone, iPad, chargers, keys, tampons. But lately, you're likely to also find a half-done newspaper crossword, a ton of stationery, the book I've restarted three times, and whatever scraps and trinkets I've picked up throughout the day to put in my scrapbook. Analog is back, and it feels like we need it more than ever.
Mindfulness
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Artists Thinking Out Loud: The IFPDA Returns to the Park Avenue Armory this April

"Drawings at the IFPDA make great sense," said Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the IFPDA and IFPDA Foundation. "Museums group them together because both media represent graphic thinking and the transmutation of ideas through line and pressure."
Arts
UX design
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

How the Right Photobook Software Turns Frustrated Browsers into Loyal Buyers

Complex, time-consuming photobook tools lose customers; intuitive, AI-assisted automatic creation that prepares an editable book is required to convert modern, time-poor users.
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Digital Storytelling Landscapes By Prismofpixels, Turning Quiet Streets And Town Squares Into Cinematic Moments Of Color And Light

A curated collection of diverse visual works spanning paintings, photography, design, and historical images across eras, genres, and artistic mediums.
Marketing
fromThedrum
2 months ago

Let's think about video

Short-form video dominates digital campaigns and social platforms, while long-form remains valuable for in-depth, informational content when optimized across platforms.
fromArchitectural Digest
7 months ago

The Best Vinyl Record Storage for Design Aesthetes

If you're new to collecting LPs, there are a few rules. Never stack, always sleeve, and never ever touch the grooves by hand. Traditionally, a 12 by 12 inch square (except, of course, for your 7-inch singles), records aren't the easiest to store. Bookshelves are often too short or narrow, and keeping them on the ground often leads to unintentional scratches, warping, and dust build-up.
Music
fromJeffrey Zeldman Presents
3 months ago

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Cold Storage - glamorous

I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass tables, 12 chairs, etc. When I closed the studio I moved the furnishings plus a few hundred design books-including books I'd written, foreign translations of my work, books by other designers that I'd published, translations of some of those books, oversized and rare design books, books signed by their authors and sent to me, and so on.
Business
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Robot libraries filled with tiny glass books' could store data for millennia

A glass-based archival system stores 4.8 TB in a 12 cm², 2 mm-thick piece using laser-written 3D voxels readable for up to 10,000 years.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

I Learned the Right Way to Put Photos on My Wall, and Now I'll Never Go Back

Find, frame, and hang art and photos to dress bare walls using existing pieces, thrifted or purchased prints, appropriate frames, and correct hanging hardware.
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Adobe has recreated the ad agency office of the 90s (complete with floppy disks and Rolodex)

Adobe recreated 1990s ad and home experiences to show how Experience Cloud simplifies outdated advertising and marketing processes.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Global photojournalists documented ICE operations, Russian airstrikes, protests in Greenland and Sakhnin, and the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat last week.
Web development
fromCmsreport
2 months ago

Preserving CMS Report: Why We Are Transitioning to a Permanent Archive

CMS Report will be transitioned into a permanent archive: no new content or updates will be published while existing material remains online and accessible.
fromDigiday
2 months ago

WTF is liquid content?

Publishers' adoption of generative AI is reducing the friction between content and format, making it easier for the same story to appear as shorter summaries, audio, or video, often in real time. To some publishers, a text article may soon be more of a vehicle for original reporting, not a final product. That information could become no longer available strictly in a static piece of content, but transformed into different shapes and formats, based on a reader's signals and preferences.
Media industry
Film
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Internet Archive's Public Domain Film Remix & Party (2026)

Red-carpet screening and party on January 21, 2026 at the Internet Archive celebrating Public Domain Day with film remixes, drinks, and awards.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Adobe Acrobat can now generate presentations and audio podcasts from your documents

Adobe adds generative-AI features to PDF Spaces for presentation generation, collaborative file and note sharing, natural-language editing, and podcast creation.
#virtual-museums
fromTechzine Global
2 months ago

Professional print materials for European tech events, why booth design still makes the difference

When you participate in a major tech event, you naturally want to stand out. Print materials can ensure making a professional first impression. In this article we look at how you ensure that your tech company's exhibition stand definitely stands out. Even if you participate in 2026 at the Web Summit in Portugal, the London Tech Week, TechEx Europe in the RAI Amsterdam or FOSDEM in our own country (Brussels). Which HelloPrint print materials are suitable for dressing up a booth?
Marketing
Mindfulness
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

13 Creative Ways to Fill an Analog Bag if You Want to Stop Staring at Your Phone

An analog bag is a portable tote filled with tactile items to replace phone use, encourage hobbies, reduce doomscrolling, and provide relaxation and accomplishment.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

This retro-modern music player revives the hypnotic spin of cassette tapes - Yanko Design

For this time around, however, the concept player here stays within the audio listening gear domain; nonetheless, has clear signs of a TE-inspired design. The retro Bluetooth player is a music accessory that's reminiscent of the classic cassette tape player design, but on the inside, it's a modern music player that plays music wired or wireless. The aesthetics are purely for arousing the nostalgic feel of listening to music on a cassette player, while the audio is digitally played via a DAC for high-resolution output.
Music
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Adobe's Creative Collective assembles multidisciplinary experts to analyse and advise on the industry's big changes

The Creative Collective convenes creatives to explore AI, provide practical support, events, and published digests that promote responsible and expressive creative practice.
Television
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV

Art-focused televisions transform unused black screens into matte, framed artworks, appealing especially to people in smaller urban homes and driving a new product trend.
History
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 months ago

Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera - I Love Typography Ltd

Seventeenth-century London printed weekly Bills of Mortality, sold widely for a penny, revealing profitable public demand for mortality statistics and morbid curiosity.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

7 brilliant examples of how brands are using illustrations in their marketing

Illustrative graphics simplify information, guide attention, convey brand personality, and boost engagement across ads, websites, and social channels.
Music
fromRAIN News
2 months ago

Streaming growth, vinyl dominance highlight Luminate 2025 report

Global music streams hit a record 5.1 trillion in 2025, driven by growth in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil and surging Latin, Rock, and Christian genres.
Photography
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Hidden Meaning of Taking Pictures

Photographs personalize fleeting experiences, anchor memory, express values, and reveal the aspirational self by bridging inner experience and the outer world.
History
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Heart-shaped Books - I Love Typography Ltd

Cultures historically assigned varied meanings to the heart, shaping embalming practices, sacrificial rites, devotional symbolism, and the heart-shaped pictogram's development.
Photography
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

The Art of What We Throw Away

Frozen household food waste can be transformed into artwork that records daily life, promotes circularity, and fosters community engagement through zero-waste events.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
Photography
fromColossal
2 months ago

Check Out Colossal's New Image Slideshow Feature

Colossal launched an in-article image gallery providing distraction-free image viewing with mouse and keyboard navigation, captions, and an easy exit.
Photography
fromEngadget
1 month ago

The ridiculously tiny Kodak Charmera captured our hearts (and lots of shoddy pictures)

The Kodak Charmera is an inexpensive, nostalgic toy camera that delivers charming, low-fidelity photos and playful portability despite poor image quality.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Why Wall Labels Matter

Museum labels shape visitor experience; contemporary art addresses polychromy and racial histories, queerness in waterways, and sculptural perception through shifting forms.
fromFstoppers
2 months ago

11 Predictions for the Photography Industry in 2026

Forget the film camera revival that never quite materialized at scale. The defining hardware trend of 2026 will be the continued adoption of C2PA (Content Credentials) signing in camera bodies beyond the flagship tier. Leica and Nikon have been early movers here, with Sony engaged in the broader Content Credentials ecosystem. This year, we are likely to see signing capabilities expand from flagship and select professional models into higher-volume lines as implementation costs fall and workflow integration matures.
Photography
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Archival Art Will Not Save Us

Archival work supports historical recovery and cultural self-understanding, but not every artwork must be archival and political work requires action beyond mere presence.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?

Recently, AI decided that a painting long thought to be a copy of Caravaggio's The Lute Player is actually by the master, while another version of the same subject, previously thought to be authentic, is not. Both conclusions were disputed by the former Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A similar debate erupted in March 2025 when AI declared that portions of The Bath of Diana, also long believed to be a copy, could have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Scanner Glitch Collages Exploring Emotional Fragmentation and Digital Distortions by Alg Eventual

Alg Eventual is an Ohiobased audio/visual new media artist creating glitch art, digital collages and abstract mixed media works with a reference to the roots of the early 2000s. His works feature scanner experiments, layered textures and titles like Exterior, Interwind, Articulation, Overthinking and Everything leads back to you, blending digital manipulation with tactile, fragmented aesthetics. More: Instagram
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Reshapes Walls And Spaces With Explosive Typographic Murals That Turn Buildings Into Giant, 3D Messages

Beautiful And Detailed Paintings In Resin By Feif Dong The Illustrator Has Created a Dreamy World that She Travels Through with Her Boyfriend Elspeth McLean Creates Beautiful Hand-Painted Stones This Artist Creates Beautifully Bizarre Backpacks That Look Like Octopus, Spiders, And Beetles Amazing Surreal And Tribal Backpacks By Konstantin Kofta Saddened By The Empty Streets Of Budapest During Lockdown, This Artist Filled The City With People From Classical Paintings UK Artist Unveils COVID-19 Glass Sculpture, One Million Times The Size Of The Virus
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

My rookie era: scrapbooking is like creating my own sentimental time capsule

I had always associated scrapbooking with grandmas and bored children, so, imagine my surprise when as a twentysomething with a Big Girl Job I found myself enamoured of printing, cutting, and sticking random bits and bobs into a book. If, like me, you've racked up a disconcerting amount of screen time, you may have stumbled across a multitude of craft-inspired social media posts made primarily by young women. Described as junk journalling, the hobby is distinguishable by an affinity with collecting and storing physical mementoes, such as tickets, receipts, packaging and Polaroids.
Arts
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art Books That Serve Up Beauty and Depth

A diverse selection of art books highlights contemporary women artists, historical art studies, racial justice memorials, disability advocacy in art, and provocative art-history reinterpretations.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Andy Warhol Films, Left Undeveloped for Decades, Come to Light | Artnet News

The newly discovered moving image work—totaling over an hour in length—includes eight new Screen Test portraits of Warhol collaborators and unused footage shot for his films Batman Dracula, Sleep, and Couch. The most significant find is several rolls of pornographic footage that shed new light on Warhol's ambitions in the 1960s. They prove that the artist had been capturing explicit scenes on the couch of his famous Factory studio long before making Blue Movie, the salacious 1969 feature that would inspire a "porno chic" phenomenon.
Arts
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