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DesignUp 🍩#82 End of Year/Decade Issue > Look Back/Ahead, Best/Worst, Top 10, Trends & More
Congratulations you've made it to 2020 🥁End of a decade, start of another - so here's another big fat issue of the newsletter that looks back, and looks ahead. It's full of funny, weird, and inspiring links: videos, articles, shows, pics, memes and much more.
I have sorted these out in 3 buckets:
Looking Back (in Design)
Looking Back (in Books, pics, video-games, films & more)
Looking Ahead
Enjoy, as we wave goodbye to one decade and, possibly, revisit our Vision 2020 or Mission 2020 slide decks - finally in 2020!
Looking back (in Design)
Designers and curators from Apple, Adobe, Pentagram, Wolff Olins, Cooper Hewitt, and more consider their industry’s legacy in the 2010s.
The 2010s are coming to a close, and as different blogs recap all the highlights, we’re reminded of just how much changed in such a short period. As little as a decade ago, we didn’t live our lives glued to a smartphone. In 2010, Uber and Instagram were just getting started.
It wasn't all unicorns and cryptokitties. From Apple's Antennagate to Juicero's fruit bomb, the decade offered up plenty of brutally expensive embarrassments.
"The best interactive projects of 2019 include ergonomic breakthroughs in VR, artificial intelligence that serves as a check on data-guzzling corporations, and one very hilarious website to buy a purse."
My quote for 2020:
"When you watch the Tokyo games in 2020, remember the seeming competition between nations actually represents an astonishing global agreement. For all the national pride people feel when their delegation wins a gold medal and their flag is raised, there is far greater reason to feel pride that humankind is capable of organising such an event"
Yual Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Looking back (in Books, Films, Pics & more)
What begins as a personal quest for David Carroll, a professor of Media Design at Parsons - to legally recapture his voter profile, unravels into a much larger story: "The Great Hack offers an alarming glimpse of the way data is being weaponized" A must watch documentary, if you haven't done so already.
"As we enter into a new decade, the time has come to reflect ... on the dank memes that made the last 10 years as horrifically weird as they were." And well, Giphy’s Top Gif Award is (apparently) a thing!
Featuring Goop, Dwayne, Fortnite, the almighty algorithm, spandex suits and much more - this is a fine look back at the 2010s packaged in a nice nifty format and seen from a (mostly) American perspective!
"The last year of the decade in Hindi cinema was bookended by an ultra-macho nationalistic film and a comedy about infertility treatment – perhaps a fitting summary of a ten-year period that should have been more fruitful, but wasn’t."
"Our co-chief film critics say these were the films of the 2010s that made a difference in the world of entertainment and beyond."
"Books that break out of the rut, books that are heavy with promise of things to come," The Hindu's list has a distinctive Indian perspective and unique voices!
How the decade stacked up in books on politics, economy, society, sport...
"This list, then, can only contain a limited sample of games, just those that made the most sizable, culture-shifting impact. Big and small, old and new, these are our picks for the most influential videogames of the last decade."
The Guardian’s picture editors take a look back at some of the news photography that has defined the past 10 years
Say the words “National Geographic,” and the first thing that comes to mind is photography.
Looking ahead...
From the tools we'll use, to our process, to the behaviors that will change
the way we design — here's a list of what to expect for User Experience
(UX) Design in the next year.
"Three design conferences. Four big trends that will impact your career or business. Spoiler alert – this is not another trends listicle."
From CRISPR to deepfakes, these are the technologies that could cause calamity in the future.
"Unhappiness today arrives carrying various banners — Trump, or Brexit, or the “gilets jaunes.” Its origins typically lie in the march of technological change and globalization" says Raghuram Rajan. So what can we do about it?
With that, I shall see you in the new year and a new decade 🎉 Best wishes for the time ahead. My resolution - to be a tad more disciplined with this newsletter. What's yours?
Happy 2020 🎈