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Riccardo Marconato

Journal

Short notes on design work I rate, and why. A new pick most days.

Inspiration

The standing rail: Porto Rocha runs its whole site from a column that never moves

Mosby's Files home page: the words AMERICAN MODERNISM set huge in white on charcoal, above a stack of color-coded folder tabs, each carrying an architect's name.

Top Picks

Mosby's Files runs an architecture archive out of a filing cabinet

Websites

'kin makes its client list do the navigating

Cursor blog post on a dark background, headline 'Direct agents with visual prompts in Design Mode', dated June 5 2026.

Tools

Cursor's Design Mode lets me point at the UI instead of writing a paragraph about it

Industry

Berlin's city museum renamed itself, and built the logo out of the street

Trulytype homepage: the word Afrika layered in Light, Regular and Semibold weights in gray, with a blue-and-black striped frog resting on top of the type.

Inspiration

The staged specimen: Trulytype gives every typeface a scene

Top Picks

No Art frames its festival video inside a monospace contact sheet

TRIONN home page: the words 'Designed to mean something' in off-white on near-black, beside a dark chrome 3D arrow mark with thin lines radiating across the screen.

Websites

TRIONN puts a small dare under every hero

Figma Motion product page: headline reading Create precise, production-ready animations right on the canvas, with a design file open and a Motion panel on the right

Tools

Figma Motion puts the timeline where the design already lives

A minimal white webpage with large black text reading 'Nano Banana Pro x PORTO ROCHA' and small YOYOYO and INTRO navigation pills at the top.

Industry

Porto Rocha made a working yo-yo with Nano Banana Pro, and left the prompts on the page

Artemii Lebedev's homepage: a white monospace index card top-left over a dark screen showing a Ponder AI software mockup, with a project list, a live CEST clock, a location line, and 'PRESS ESC FOR EFFECTS' pinned at the bottom.

Inspiration

The console layout: Artemii Lebedev runs his portfolio like software

Six dark metallic Ciao Energy cans floating in a black studio void between two turntable discs, a purple Double Litchi can facing front, rainbow progress bar below

Top Picks

Ciao Energy spins its whole range on a single turntable

Websites

Collection puts the punchline where the client name usually goes

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