Design Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about design on BlogRolly.

• The Mirror Is Never Just a Mirror — How mirror placement changes what you see in a room, with practical considerations for reflection, scale, sightlines, li
• The Brass Peacock Fireplace Screen: What to Look for Before You Buy — A closer look at vintage brass peacock fireplace screens, including construction, condition, decorative details, and wha
• 1980s Postmodern Glam Decor Ideas for a Black Lacquer Bathroom — Ideas for building a 1980s postmodern glam interior with black lacquer, brass, geometric forms, sculptural objects, and
• The Room With No Modern World in It — An exploration of creating an interior that feels removed from the modern world through antique furniture, old materials
• Antique Bedroom Ideas: A Dressing Spot Without a Vanity — How to create a bedroom dressing spot without a traditional vanity, using an antique chair, nesting tables, lighting, mi
• Home Library Ideas: How to Style a Bookshelf That Feels Collected — How to style a home library with books, brass objects, sculpture, plants, and varied scale to create shelves that feel c
• Moody Entryway Decor Ideas: What a Sag Harbor Doorway Gets Right — A Sag Harbor doorway shows how black lacquer, weathered wrought iron, unusual hardware, and restraint can give an entryw
• Gallery Walls: How to Build One That Looks Collected — A practical guide to building a gallery wall that feels collected over time, using subject, material, spacing, anchor pi
• Rediscovering Sketching — Sketches saved me from endless CAD edits. I show hand sketches and NanoCAD plans for cycle crossing design, walking cycl
• What Exactly Is A Design Classic? — A tweet comparing a secure cycle parking shelter to a pig shelter kicked off a debate on what makes a design classic. I
• Kerb Your Enthusiasm — On holiday in Cardiff Bay a pedestrian dropped kerb with a 25mm upstand caught my eye. I explain why flush kerbs matter
• File Icons — Need consistent file icons for your app? I put together a community file icon collection and packaged it as fileicons.zi
• Majestic Landscapes — What if your web link data became a keepsake? Here I explain building bespoke software to turn Majestic link data and Fl
• Planning a tunnel full of LEDs — Want to see a tunnel of LEDs at Nowhere festival in Spain? In this post I walk through planning an interactive LED tunne
• Building a website like it's 1999 — Want to build a 90s-style website in 2022? I rebuilt a GeoCities vibe with modern HTML, CSS and JS, and show how to recr
• My ideal phone — Could a focused, repairable productivity phone exist? For me the ideal phone pairs a phone with physical keyboard and a
• Design and disappointment — Tired of fighting for design in every company? I became a front-end developer who cares about design, doubled down as a
• The Nightdress: Gothic Edition — Craving a Nosferatu style nightdress with authentic 1830s details? I compare Linda Muir's film nightgowns with sewing pa
• The Interrobang, Part 2 — I follow the interrobang into its afterlife: obscure typefaces, Unicode, misprints and revivals, and the strange ways th
• Sometimes the flyer is so cool you want to go to the talk — Academic talks, conference culture, and the lost art of the compelling flyer. Occasionally the design is so good it almo
• Dodecahedron — A creative exploration of making and gifting, focused on form, care, and the joy found in small handmade objects.