A Non-Functional Function

Rina Chen’s living notebook on digital craft and design.


Context

I was looking at [[PCBs| old PCB boards]] and was fascinated by some of their silkscreen “easter eggs”. These are tiny doodles that engineers/designers embed in the silkscreen layer of a board. They have no function in itself, but many people couldn’t help but look for these human factors.

I couldn’t yet find a solid archive of these patterns, most of the photos are shared through instagram, reddit, and few personal blogs:

post by archived.dreams post by -likealeaf blog by Roy

They are using a same bunch of photos, so the sources are limited.