Life Sim: IDL

PC Music has stayed mostly quiet this summer but finally rewarded patient fans with a new track, “IDL,” from the mysterious artist Life Sim (whose IRL identity has yet to be disclosed). The simple electronic instrumental channels early EDM with its ambition to transcend, but “IDL” continuously builds over six minutes, with no satisfying “drop.” Drawing nothing more than mere moments from hundreds of recognizable …

LA Priest: Lady’s In Trouble With The Law

Sam Dust—aka Sam Eastgate of the mid-2000s band Late of the Pier—moved to Wales and finally finished a debut album, Inji under the name LA Priest. The summery yet strange dance-pop single “Oino” felt like it came out of nowhere—or out of the sky like a falling meteor—and piqued curiosity in the solo project. There’s now a music video to accompany his more ballad-like (yet …

From Pencil to Photoshop to Dropbox: 2015 Design Tools Survey

Which weapons designers around the world are favoring today, from prototyping to project management

Earlier this summer, web design veteran Khoi Vinh—former Design Director at The New York Times Online and now Principal Designer at Adobe—sent out a questionnaire to the public to learn what tools designers are using and favoring today. With participation from over 4,000 designers in almost 200 countries, the first annual Design Tools Survey results are now published on Vinh’s long-running blog Subtraction. Extracting findings …