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196 from 28 Nov 2019 to 25 Oct 2026
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2026 29

  1. Marathoning on a Budget
  2. Osaka I · on the way
  3. Pinned-value goods
  4. Buzzin’ down California
  5. Do you want to go for a ride?
  6. DIY adjustable projector stand
  7. Yunnan V · Land of Wilderness
  8. Design Ah! books
  9. Good bye, Om Malik
  10. Japanese symbols that speak without words
  11. How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
  12. Introducing Daily Designer
  13. Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that
  14. Yunnan IV · Lijiang
  15. Love Hultén Works
  16. Japan's invisible electric wall
  17. Yunnan III · Dali
  18. When the cheap one is the cool one
  19. A love letter to the Leica CL
  20. Ai-enhanced writing process
  21. Yunnan II · Kunming
  22. Naoto Fukasawa’s without thought catalogs
  23. Yunnan I · Homebase, Shanghai
  24. On running: principles and gear
  25. Introducing arun.is 3.0
  26. Kanazawa IV · An interlude in Tokyo
  27. Kanazawa III · The old
  28. Kanazawa II · The new
  29. Kanazawa I · On the way

2025 20

  1. The year in review: 2025
  2. Creative Savannah
  3. Hello, Liquid Glass
  4. Charleston's historic fabric
  5. Five years of the arun.is newsletter
  6. My DIY modular charging station
  7. Milwaukee's many faces
  8. Aesthetics over upgrades
  9. Designing wearable tech history
  10. Mexico City's embrace of culture
  11. Family adventures in Tokyo
  12. The creative power of constraints
  13. Photowalk through Shanghai
  14. Sigma BF: less camera, more vision
  15. My year-long sabbatical
  16. Suzhou twenty years later
  17. Meishi: a tiny productivity system
  18. Taipei through the layers of time
  19. The hidden bond between the Porsche 911 and Leica M
  20. Hidden Taiwan: A weekend in Taoyuan & Yingge

2024 32

  1. Inside arun.is · Photo storage
  2. The tale of two Shanghais
  3. Leica’s engraved fonts
  4. Art and culture in Singapore
  5. Shanghai Film Park
  6. When Leica met Apple
  7. Four books about Apple design
  8. Three pillars of my blogging philosophy
  9. Farewell, XOXO
  10. Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations
  11. Shanghai's automotive metamorphosis
  12. The Google visitor experience
  13. Three books about Sony design
  14. Art & architecture in Chicago
  15. A generative film about Brian Eno
  16. Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit
  17. A visit to the Eames institute
  18. A desk setup for two
  19. Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance
  20. The inescapable gravity of the smartphone
  21. Behind the scenes of making a children's board book
  22. A weekend on San Francisco's Embarcadero
  23. Inside arun.is · Table of contents
  24. Daylight at the end of the tunnel
  25. Why we crave healthier computing
  26. 40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum
  27. Inside arun.is · camera illustrations
  28. First family trip to Los Angeles
  29. Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
  30. A week in Oaxaca
  31. Apple Watch Ultra succeeds where Watch Edition failed
  32. Does gear matter?

2023 13

  1. NorCal 2023 Mechanical Keyboard Meetup
  2. What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore?
  3. The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners
  4. Mirage at Apple Park
  5. The Huntington Botanical Gardens
  6. Make Something Wonderful
  7. Three books about Muji
  8. A week in Palm Springs
  9. RIP DPReview
  10. ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess
  11. Shift Happens preview
  12. Fort Worth’s world-renowned art and architecture
  13. How the Xbox got its good looks

2022 21

  1. Three books about Leica
  2. Winter in the Bay Area
  3. The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow
  4. Returning to New Mexico with the family
  5. A historical view on the Metropolitan Apple Watch face
  6. The sensory experience of making coffee
  7. Visiting two art gems outside New York City
  8. Eight lessons from founding to Series C
  9. One month of Zwift on a cheap stationary bike
  10. Leica T: eight years later
  11. Inside arun.is · Writing
  12. Drive My Car is a beautiful, picturesque film
  13. Introducing arun.is 2.0
  14. Staying at the TWA Flight Center
  15. Mode Designs SixtyFive · a celebration of materials
  16. The evolution of the desk setup
  17. How to use Automator to close all apps in one click
  18. My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 4
  19. My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 3
  20. Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion
  21. 2022 Holiday giveaway

2021 12

  1. My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 2
  2. My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 1
  3. The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch
  4. Visiting the Bay Area's only Case Study House
  5. Choosing a static site generator for a personal site
  6. Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs
  7. Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
  8. Where to build and host your personal website
  9. A weekend at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge with the X100V
  10. Wallpapers inspired by iMac history
  11. The art of the desk setup
  12. The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces

2020 31

  1. A skeptic's review of Apple Watch
  2. Go-to Mac apps and utilities
  3. Kyoto, Japan
  4. Icon designer Louie Mantia's take on traditional Japanese playing cards
  5. Being in Taipei as the pandemic hit
  6. INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone
  7. The untold history of macOS System Preferences
  8. Shot on Leica Q · San Francisco and Sausalito
  9. The deep work guide to Slack
  10. The arun.is newsletter
  11. The Three A's method for learning from other creators
  12. Is the Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson any good?
  13. Munich · Museums
  14. Assemble with Care and the joy of fixing things
  15. Introducing Dieter Rams Wallpapers
  16. How I sort through a deluge of subscriptions
  17. Struggling to contribute to BLM
  18. Munich · Streets, U-Bahn, Olympiapark
  19. How Jane Ko wrote and published her own guide to Austin
  20. A quick stop in Amsterdam
  21. The Grand Turo
  22. Inside arun.is · Technology
  23. See the best of Japan without leaving your home
  24. The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs
  25. Inside arun.is · Design
  26. Louis Vuitton City Guides
  27. The Saratoga Classic & Cool Car Show
  28. The 16-year-old Leica Digilux 2 is still a great camera
  29. iPod speakers make the best smart speakers
  30. Palma de Mallorca
  31. Cannes & Monaco

2019 3

  1. Pisa & Florence
  2. Rome
  3. Naples & Pompeii

Undated 35

  1. Barcelona
  2. A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer
  3. Leica Q3 concept
  4. Seeing Europe by ship
  5. Are you designing a map or a path?
  6. Photos from NYC and Toronto
  7. When an architect designs a train
  8. Japan · fertility festival
  9. Japan · museum guide
  10. The clever new design technique in the iPhone 11 pro
  11. Japan · cityscapes and cars
  12. Dieter Rams designed one of Gillette's most successful razors
  13. Japan · culture and life
  14. The new Mac Pro is a design remix
  15. Charming Guanajuato, Mexico
  16. Elements of aircraft safety card design
  17. The design of Apple's credit card
  18. Shot on Leica Q: Portland
  19. 10 Year Challenge: how popular websites have changed
  20. Exploring Hong Kong
  21. Learning design from musicians
  22. Exploring China's Fujian Province
  23. Exploring Shanghai
  24. Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
  25. A weekend in LA
  26. Rams: a documentary portrait of a design legend
  27. Quick visit to the Design Museum
  28. Journey through India
  29. Rediscovering Apple's 1987 identity guidelines
  30. Two months with the Leica Q
  31. Secure file cabinet on my Mac
  32. How I built a modular bookcase
  33. City travel guides: honorable mentions
  34. The best city travel guides
  35. Your native language affects how you see this image