Running a little late, but what’s time anyway. Enjoy the links.
Packaging/Industrial Design
Propeller’s All-Paper Package Design for Sunology’s Sleek Battery System
Despite the battery weighing as much 30.5 kg, the packaging is built from paper – strong honeycomb board, paperboard corner reinforcements and paper straps – balancing the needs of transport with a considered unboxing experience.
SURI Reimagines Toothpaste With a Refillable, Displayable System
All together, SURI Restore Gel Refillable Toothpaste reframes toothpaste as a reusable object rather than disposable packaging.
Illustration
How I Work: Rad Smith, Ski Map Designer
Rad Smith discovered the world of hand-painted ski maps when it dawned on him that the maps he’d relied on for years all came from one guy. Today, he is that guy.
Graphic Design/Branding
An in-depth conversation with PP best and brightest type designers on how to nail the design of typography’s more identifiable (but easily ill-designed) glyph.
Praktika: National Institute of Architecture Branding
The identity draws from the interwar spirit of the Kaunas Central Post Office, where national style meets functionalism. The black and white folk pattern embedded in the building’s floors is reinterpreted as both a decorative national reference and a functional modernist graphic system. This turns the historical motif into a contemporary part of global architectural and artistic language.
Books
‘The Eames Houses’ Explores the Homes That Shaped Modern Design
The Eames Houses, a new book from Phaidon, offers the first comprehensive look at that body of work, collecting every residential project the duo designed between 1945 and 1954.
Art
An observer of the tiny moments of ad agency life, figuratively speaking.
Helena Minginowicz Transforms Humble Paper Towel into Ethereal Paintings
“Civilizations are remembered through their monuments, but understood through the things they throw away,” says artist Helena Minginowicz, whose sensitive paintings interrogate our understanding of value.
Work
Taste has more nuance than the screenshot crowd allows, and trust has its own nuance on top of that. They sit side by side. A product can be tasteful and still make you hesitate before you hand over your savings. It can be plain and forgettable and still earn the benefit of the doubt because nothing in it makes you doubt. The work needs both, and we name the second one far less often.
Tools
An open source design system that’s fully customizable and agent ready
Architecture
GP House is born from the tension between two curves: the corner of the neighborhood, which defines its urban front, and the lagoon that opens up at the back of the lot. Between the two, the house constructs a spiral geometry that organizes the program, shapes the circulation, and defines the way the landscape is inhabited.
Random
A love letter to California, mapped out. Four topographic studies of the landscapes that shaped us, from the depths of Death Valley to the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Deep underground below the crust of Earth, The pressure of 10,000 elephants and the temperature of lava are creating a chemical reactions with rocks. These rocks, called kimberlite rise to the surface with magma eruptions.