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Weekly Design Links – 02/03/26

Short month, short batch of links to get it rolling. No rhyme ot reason, just trying to keep up, and get some sleep as well.

Photography

Benjamin Wolf

Prints available on Etsy

Web Design/UX/UI

Apple’s unrivalled commitment to excellence is fading – a designer explains why

It feels a peculiar decision to let users get rid of the core colour signals that have underpinned Apple’s exceptional usability for so long.

Graphic Design/Branding

Teton Outing Club

A boutique residential community in Driggs, Idaho, designed for outdoor enthusiasts. Nestled in the Teton Valley near Jackson Hole, the club offers residences, shared spaces, and year-round outings that celebrate life in the mountains.

Architecture

Triangular introduces its corrugated steel-clad forest house in patagonia

When it comes to materiality, the design team opted for a metallic cladding with the allegory of a burned log, where the bark protects its body. Depicting this concept to the house, the corrugated envelope protects the acetylated wood of the intermediate facades and the pine of the interior walls.

Like a steel ribbon, volcano-in visitor center by PLAT ASIA undulates over steppe in china

The design concept is based on positioning the volcano as the dominant formal reference. The architecture follows the existing topography through a curved roof structure and three circular volumes arranged at varying elevations. Together, these elements outline a conical silhouette that echoes the geometry of the volcanic landform.

Random/Technology

Dithering Part II – The Ordered Dithering

The issue? With only 4 threshold levels, we only have 4 patterns to represent the entire grayscale shades

Computing power woven into hair-thin fibers, paving way for smart clothes, brain implants

Researchers from Fudan University successfully integrated a functioning integrated circuit — combining processing, memory and signal capabilities — directly into a single, elastic polymer fiber thinner than a human hair.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

…blurriness happens because the ASCII characters are being treated like pixels — their shape is ignored. It’s disappointing to see because ASCII art looks so much better when shape is utilized.

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