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Designing Your Fitness Routine: Kino Octane - The Catalyst to Your Movie Star Physique

If you're a creative, you understand the vital importance of the right tools. Be it the software you use to design, the instruments that help you create music, or the architectural plans that aid you in constructing marvels - the right tools can make the difference between good and exceptional.

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Design

MANDOWN MMXXI launches with strong first collection

Futuristic, Brutal, Dystopic. MANDOWN MMXXI is inspired by the futurism movement of the early 1900s and aims to change the fashion system by proposing collections developed by temperature.

Design

Apple Music is charmingly featureless

I have been catching heat for my preference of Apple Music over Spotify as a music streaming platform for years. My reply to every ridicule was always the same: "learn aesthetics". Look, I have never tried to argue that Apple Music has better music discovery algorithms. Nor have I attempted

Design

CATATONIC is creating positive connections through design

Inside the 3D printed jewelry brand forming positive connections through design

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Engineering

The Digital Designers Making ASCII Art Cool Again

Artists use computer code and modern digital techniques to bring ASCII art and other digital “glitch art” to life in unique ways.

Design

Design Spotlight: Jason Demaci

Jason Demaci on life as a fashion designer, his latest Season 6 collection, and vision for the future.

Design

Rhude Women's Collection is elegant and sporty with classic Rhude attitude

Rhude's Women's Collection Drop 1 released today featuring a mix of bold, sporty looks and refined summer tailoring.

Design

Roman Miah x Avanté Design unveil retro R36 Skyline GTR

The collaboration with Avanté Design included over 6 months of work and a couple hundred hours of design, development and 3D modeling.

Engineering

How to add colorful tags to your Ghost blog theme

Learn how to enable support for color-coded tags in your Ghost theme with this short code snippet.

Design

Honoring the Legacy of Designer Virgil Abloh

Note: This was an article that was originally written and published as a blog post for my first, now-retired brand Five Nines. The post in its original form has been copied here, unedited from its original publication date of December 03, 2021. I am the original author. When you think