I’m going to admit it. I’m tired. I’m juggling a lot at the moment and finding it difficult to keep the train on the tracks. Doing my best, and I’m happy with this batch of links for you all.
Industrial Design
Eloi Goulhot’s Mallet-Based Walnut Cracker
Walnuts are extraordinarily tough nuts to crack. Here in the ‘States, we used to do it with a lever-based contraption, but in France, they simply used a mallet. French product designer Eloi Goulhot recently built on that, adding the principle of a deadblow mallet to design his own version
Graphic Design/Branding
Blood Cancer United unveils powerful new brand identity
The rebrand puts community at its core.
20 essential books for graphic designers
Brush up skills, find fresh inspiration, or take some advice from your fellow designers.
The Best Pixel Art Logos of All Time (and what I’d do to make them even better)
Pixel art logos were drawn small but had to act big. Hardware limits forced them into tight grids and limited palettes, but they were expected to roar onto the screen with the magnificence of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Web Design/UX/UI
A notional design studio.
Last week, my country’s far-right administration announced they were establishing an “America by Design” initiative, along with a so-called National Design Studio to oversee it. That studio will, to quote its own homepage, “improve how Americans experience their government — online, in person, and the spaces in between.” After seeing the announcement, I read through the “America by Design” web page. And I have some thoughts.
the history of themeable user interfaces
Design tokens may be the latest incarnation, but software creators have been creating themeable user interfaces for quite a long time! As with all things, we can study history to learn from our past to inform our future.
Typography
Introducing Brutal Types
A collection of display fonts inspired by the lettering works created by designers and architects associated with the avant-garde movements of the interwar period.
Tools
PatternCraft
Professional-grade background patterns and gradients. Easily copy the code and seamlessly integrate it into your projects.
Crafted with modern CSS and Tailwind
SALTGATOR: The 1st Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine
Rapid Soft Part Making | 10-Minute Ready | 3D-Printing Mold Support | For DIYers & Designers
Random
The evolution of playing cards
Humble mercenary origins to royally flush with universal digital symbology
Emojitracker
Emojitracker shows the most popular 1,000 emojis both globally and across select countries.
So this is why Hollow Knight: Silksong took 7 years to make?
Epic timelapse shows a new indie adventure game in development.