🎨 Design

Identity for a forest preservation organization

In 1972, Bhutan issued postage stamps that were miniature vinyl records, playable on a standard turntable

Letterform launched an online graphic design archive of 9000 images

New York Times' social distancing 3D simulation

Complex music machines using plants and other objects

The 8-bit arcade font, deconstructed

I dig this animation

An Instagram account observes the use of tape during the pandemic

Mongolia to restore traditional vertical alphabet by 2025

⚙️Tech

Excellent UX teardowns of how Chinese apps handled Covid-19:

• by Dan Grover (Facebook, ex-WeChat)

• by Connie Chan (a16z)

MIT's Dream Lab is building devices to hack dreams

Parents: Google unveils 'Teacher Approved' apps for your kids

Facebook is using bots to simulate what its users might do

A website that turns selfies into classical paintings

Minimal browser-based game made with checkboxes

A Facebook group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony

A service to invite actual goats (or llamas) to your Zoom meeting 

Poem: 'First lines of emails I’ve received while quarantining'

A BBC sports commentator at home, commenting on his dogs 

MoMA launched free online courses on modern art and photography 

Watch YouTube videos in an online 3D room and invite your friends 

People inflating a plane evacuation slide in the street

Unlikely chemical experiment: Black fire snake

The Icelandic Forestry Service recommends hugging trees since you can't hug people

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