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Weekly Design Links – 04/28/26

Maybe by now you’ve noticed I’m a bit obsessive about collecting these links. Week after week, thousands of them, no end in sight. It started with a purpose: creative fuel for a team I was managing. That morphed into what you see here. It’s not a straight line, and honestly, it’s hard to keep going sometimes. But then a nice email lands, or someone who just found it reaches out, and I get that little jolt. That’s enough.

Web Design/Animation

Squash and Stretch

The little secret that makes animations feel alive

Handmade Designs: The New Trust Signal

In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

Graphic Design/Branding

Finer Sounds

At the core of the brand is a naive line. There’s a bit of a wink in the intentionally unrefined design language. We tried to envision what our younger selves might have doodled in a notebook if the brief were to illustrate ‘the finer things’. We wanted the whole ‘fancy’ brand to feel as if it were sketched with a Pilot Felt Tip pen.

Architecture

After 77 Years, You Can Now Live in the Eames Pavilion System

The Eameses were highly interested in material exploration, using traditionally industrial parts to create a thoroughly cohesive project: the Eames Pavilion System, shown for the first time at Triennale Milano. Brought to life with through the collaboration of Eames Office and Kettal, each part is colorful, distinct, and most importantly, humane.

Gabriella Marcella Risograph Studio in Glasgow

Gabriella Marcella designed Risotto Studio in Glasgow as a vibrant risograph print space defined by industrial craft, flexible layout, and vivid colours.

Advertising

Thingy&Thingy’s campaign for Vivobarefoot is like no shoe ad you’ve seen before

With the help of the “anti-advertising” agency, Vivobarefoot has launched a joyful animated call to arms that blends play, provocation and purpose.

Typography

All About Fonts and Typography in Printing and Website Creation

Typography is the intersection of text and design. It plays a vital role in shaping how we read, understand, and interact with written content, from informative articles to eye-catching brochures. Understanding the fundamentals of typography can help designers and writers alike create more effective and engaging experiences.

Tools

Wiretext: Unicode wireframe design tool

Figma, but everything is text. What started as a joke turns out to be useful. Draw the simplest possible wireframe, and export as pure text or markdown

Random

Worse on Purpose

Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what’s still worth buying.

How is AI reshaping the labor market?

~531 sources, one pattern. AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, entry-level and freelance work is compressing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing. No measurable job displacement, maybe?

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