The Top 10 of the First 100
An ICYMI review of our most popular posts to date
Today marks re:form’s 100th post since our launch in late July. It’s been an awesome few months. We’ve been thrilled to host terrific writers presenting all kinds of design-related ideas, and even more thrilled to watch an audience of engaged, enthusiastic readers gather around our stories.
If you’ve just discovered re:form recently, we encourage you to comb back through the archive to see what we published in the early days. Below we’re linking you to our 10 most popular posts (by traffic numbers), but they’re by no means a comprehensive list of our favorites. Enjoy the round-up and please tweet your own top picks @readreform!
Sim City That I Used to Know
On the game’s 25th birthday, a devotee talks with creator Will Wright
By Doug Bierend
Welcome to Dataland
Design fiction at the most magical place on Earth
By Ian Bogost
Yes We Can, But Should We?
The unintended consequences of the maker movement
By Allison Arieff
The Typography of Speed
If you can’t make a good font you can’t design cars, and other unexpected lessons from BMW
By BMW USA
The Micro-Dwellings of Hong Kong
From chicken-wire cages to glassed-in galleys, designers are working to make the city’s tiniest spaces livable
By Emily Matchar
The Utopian UI Architect
An ex-Apple interface designer’s 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with them
By John Pavlus
What the Flag Says
The complex histories woven into a simple piece of cloth
By Andy Warner
Muting the Freeway
How roadside noise barriers are designed to absorb sound and evade attention
By Nate Berg
Data-Driven Architecture
Learning how we really use our homes so we can use them better
By David Friedlander
The Utopian City That Wasn’t
How two American architects won a competition to design Australia’s capital in 1912
By Eleri Harris
