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Weekly Design Links – 02/14/23

Sick of swole head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin’ the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin’ sick
Even sicker perhaps (sicker perhaps)
I stick a bush to make a bundle to escape this synapse

Excerpt from ‘Stakes Is High’ by De La Soul
RIP Trugoy the Dove, AKA David Jolicoeur of De La Soul

Industrial Design

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
The history of keyboards – from early typewriters to modern mechanical marvels – told in two beautiful volumes

IKEA + Marimekko Launch Self-Care Centered BASTUA Collection
Two of the biggest Nordic brands have united to bring us the BASTUA collection, launching globally in March 2023

The Unexpectedly Playful NomNom Light
NomNom Light is about playful minimalism with unexpected logic

Work

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite

Design Maturity 101
I believe Design Maturity is nearly always correlated with resourcing

Tools/Typography

Atlas Icons
Open source free icons library, available in variable stroke

Ana Banana Font Family
A proprietary and exclusive typeface for an all-female, young, brazilian and diversity focused branding consultancy

Data Visualization

Every Single Shot LeBron James Made On His Way To Becoming The NBA’s Leading Scorer
In a wonderful animated infographic

Web Design/UX/UI

Set up a design system
Step-by-Step Interactive Handbook

Sensible Futures: Our Framework
All our methods and activities organised by stage. Go crazy!

Random/Art

YouTuber Builds A Hypnotic, Infinite Lego Domino Ring
JK Brickworks’s never ending Domino ring contains 64 pieces and a revolving ramp that’ll spin forever, or until you ask it to stop

This Agency Creates Plywood Renderings Of Modernist Buildings
Helen Waites founded Plyconic, a London design studio specializing in 3D artworks depicting postwar modernist architecture using layers of plywood