It’s officially Spring now. The time change has happened. It’s getting warmer (some days). I’m trying to roll with it. This week is another small batch of hand-selected links for you all. Enjoy.
Art
Daisuke Samejima
Realistic paintings on spheres
Industrial Design
The Wearable Masterpieces of the Swatch x Tate Gallery Collection
Swatch also has a history of collaborating with art institutions themselves designing watches – in partnership with MoMA, the Louvre, Centre Pompidou, and Rijksmuseum
Tools
Web Awesome
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Advertising
IKEA Highlights Affordability with Products Broken by Pets
On top of the unquestionable love four-legged buddies give in homes, they often also mess them up
Web Design/UX/UI
Design Spells
Design details that feel like magic
Why UX designers should create object maps (and how to start)
Object-oriented design can help designers align products with how people use them
How to design icons in Figma
An in-depth guide to icon creation
Random
Azulejo by Golden Goliath
An interesting pattern-generating experiment
A long read about NBA shot data
I used to play basketball and I do a lot of data analysis and mapping, but I haven’t actually blogged about it before, so here I am.