
A personal newsletter by designer Michael Flarup about the joy of creating things. Stories from his journey in design, games, and life—along with early access to his projects, creative insights, and curated links to things that inspire him.
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I just published my yearly recap: Everything I worked on in 2025.
It’s been a year of sustained work on the biggest gamble of my career, running alongside a high output of freelance work, pixels, and words.
With this instalment, that make...
One hour till the press embargo lifts.
Damn. Rendering error. We’ll have to restart the process.
The announcement is ready to go. We’re just missing the trailer!
Outside the window, the rural countryside of Japan whooshes by while slack...
Some trips end up shaping your entire career.
Eleven years ago I sat in an Airbnb in San Diego, journaling my thoughts from the week. I had just finished one of my first international talks at Valio Con, a small boutique conference by the...
It’s always nice being right.
A few weeks before WWDC I wrote about the upcoming colourful and dimensional shift in interface design.
That post ended up on the front page of Hacker News and was read 87,000 times.
And then Apple announced...
Flat design is over. The future is colourful and dimensional.
Those aren’t my words. They’re Brian Chesky’s, CEO of Airbnb, after what can only be described as a landmark redesign of the platform. A redesign full of whimsical, animated, 3D...
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