Oura
Oura makes the smart ring that tracks sleep, readiness and heart signals from a band of titanium, worn by athletes and cardiologists alike. Its site has to sell serious biometrics without ever feeling like a hospital.
minimal school
The orange pigment
Painted in orange
Each bar on a piece's pigment card is read out of the photograph, so this room gathers the sites where the pigment truly does the painting.
5 pieces hang here
Departure Mono
Departure Mono is Helena Zhang's free pixel monospace font, drawn to evoke airport split-flap boards and early terminal displays. Its site plays the whole fantasy straight, interface and all.
typographic school
Sanctuary Computer
Sanctuary Computer is a New York software studio in the garden3d family, building products and technical systems for clients from startups to Nike and IBM. Its homepage leads with "working relationships" — the studio sells how it works as much as what it ships.
editorial school
Quanta Magazine
Quanta covers mathematics, physics, biology and computer science with a newsroom funded by the Simons Foundation and no ads to please. Its explanatory graphics and commissioned illustrations set the bar for making research legible.
editorial school
BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group
BIG is Bjarke Ingels' architecture practice, responsible for spiraling museums, ski-slope power plants and a good share of contemporary architecture's headlines. Its site is one long, quiet reel of the buildings themselves.
minimal school