Designer, Maker, Founder. Caring and Playful.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
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Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Thank you to Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown for having me on his podcast – and I hope you enjoy our open-hearted, tentative, exploratory conversation about math in the age of AI. We tried out a lot of ideas on each other. youtu.be/xUSznTR2cwc
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I love Apple's video work but Apple doesn't officially credit the studios, directors and motion designers who made them, so I compiled a list with any public information I could find to support the artists behind the work.
I need your help finishing it!
goodboy.ninja/blog/who-is-ma…
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
🤲 Designing for iPhone Duo? 🤲
Everything *hinges* on you watching this video by @malonso and @vincelane from the Apple Design Team.
youtube.com/watch?v=do3UqxfY…
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Thank you Terry for acknowledging our work mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11723415…
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Terence Tao just posted this really insightful thread which seems to have been written in reaction to the Navier Stokes announcement. Please give it a read. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11723732…
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This week on Source Material: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman), MIT Professor, computational artist and creative coder.
00:00 Intro
00:17 Maeda @ Media — John Maeda, 2000
01:25 The Visual Diaries 1973–1982 — Lance Wyman, 2017
02:09 Design by Numbers — John Maeda, 1999 03:01 Making Things — Issey Miyake, 1999
03:45 An Arbitrary Point P — Masahiko Sato & Euphrates, 2007
04:14 Midnight Animations — Masahiko Sato & Euphrates, 2007
04:53 Visual Music — Kerry Brougher, Jeremy Strick, Ari Wiseman & Judith Zilczer, 2005
05:24 Drawing is Thinking — Milton Glaser & Judith Thurman, 2008
05:49 Arm in Arm — Remy Charlip, 1969
06:22 Siteless: 1001 Building Forms — François Blanciak, 2008
06:51 Cool Tools: A Catalogue OF Possibilities — Kevin Kelly, 2013
07:19 Conditional Design Workbook — Laura Maurer, Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters & Edo Paulus, 2013
08:03 Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design — Ellen Lupton & Abbott Miller, 1996
09:45 Figma Config 2026 — Zach Lieberman, Ten Years of Daily Sketching
09:59 Outro
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
I can't wait to read this article. I once had my own correspondence with Joan Birman when I was barely out of my teens. She's an incredible mathematician, and an incredible mentor!
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice nytimes.com/2026/09/06/scien… via @NYTimes
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Come visit our Burning Man art piece that we installed today. It's a mile-long line of solar powered LED strobes that create a streak of light moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. You can feel your spin. At 11:00 and far fence.
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Yikes my @amazon account just got hacked and it is exponentially harder to hack my account than a normal account because I use unguessable unique email addresses for every service and so yikes I do not think this is a normal password guess or phishing trick yikes. – at Brooklyn, NY
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Beautiful short film celebrating 15 years of the @recursecenter
I love this community, always excited to chat with people about applying or re-applying!
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Design Twitter, lock in.
Grocery prices are rising faster than wages, so we’re launching 5 municipal grocery stores with lower prices.
But people can't benefit from resources they don't know about. We need expert branding for New York's city-owned grocery stores to properly serve New Yorkers.
Help spread the word: We're accepting design proposals at grocery.nyc/brand until June 30, 2026 at 4:30 PM ET.
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do?
Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?
Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you.
Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.

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Spotted in the NYC subway. “Zero screen time.” An iPod Shuffle ad in 2026.
When we built the iPod, the goal was the technology disappeared and you could have your music wherever you were. 1,000 songs in your pocket.
Now we’re living through a moment where people are actively looking for ways to disconnect from the infinite feed, algos, and constant notifications. That doesn’t mean technology is bad. It means the best technology understands when to step back.
Not every problem needs another screen, another menu, or another layer of complexity. Constraints create freedom (read: @DavidEpstein new book Inside the Box). And often removing features creates a better product than adding them.
The future of technology shouldn’t just be more engagement. It should help us be more human.
Jonathan Bobrow retweeted
The Steam reviews for Little Nemo are now officially "Very Positive" at 94%! 🎉
I'm really blown away by how well received it's been so far. 😊
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Terence Tao proposes what he calls a "Copernican view of intelligence".
Instead of buying into the common, one-dimensional narrative that artificial intelligence will simply evolve from "subhuman" to "superhuman" and ultimately make humanity entirely redundant, Tao urges us to look at the bigger picture.
Much like the Copernican revolution proved the Earth is not the center of the universe, Tao suggests we need to realize that human intelligence isn't the only, or necessarily the highest, form of intellect. Historically, we have treated other forms of storing or creating knowledge—like animals, books, and computers—as secondary. However, we actually exist within a much richer universe of intelligence.
Both human intelligence and computer intelligence possess their own distinct strengths and weaknesses. The true potential lies not in viewing them as direct competitors, but rather in focusing on collaboration. By working together, humans and computers can achieve additional things that neither could accomplish on their own, requiring us to think in much wider terms than just what humans or computers can do alone.
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No cameras. No extra sensors. Your smartwatch already has everything it needs to track your hand. ⌚️✌🏻
Monday at #CHI2026, @jiwan_hci and I are presenting WatchHand, a continuous 3D hand pose tracking system that uses just the speaker and mic in your smartwatch.
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I wanted to sincerely thank you for the interest and the incredible reach that Algebrica has received over the past three days. Nearly 200,000 views, thousands of shares, and so many messages of support for a free and open project.
In the coming days, I will release an initial collaborative layer that will allow users to improve individual sections through an integrated Markdown editor directly on the pages. This is just a first step, in the coming weeks I will try to develop something more structured.
I must admit that I had no real sense of how much a free project like Algebrica could be appreciated and recognized, in a web where everything seems to turn into business, as something useful and valuable. This is especially true considering the inevitable imperfections, given that it has always been managed alone as a personal project, and in a language that is not my native one.
I think that if we could return, even partially, to the original spirit of the web and step a bit outside the narrow confines of social media, we would realize that there is a whole world out there full of interesting projects, cultivated with passion by people who simply want to share knowledge for the sake of it. Algebrica is just one of many.
Thank you again, truly.