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Weekly Design Links – 04/25/23

I’m looking forward to Summer: warm days–like the whole day, longer days of light, and ice-filled beverages. I can’t wait for all of these things and more. Until then, I’ll be heads down, working on some new sites and side projects.

Industrial Design

Mobile Phone Museum
Over 2600 models and all the physical buttons

Ronnie Fieg Teams Up With The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation For Celebratory New Balance 998 “Broadacre City”
Alongside celebrating the silhouette’s 35th Anniversary, the Ronnie Fieg x New Balance 998 “Broadacre City” pays homage to the Frank Lloyd Wright concept of the same name

Studio Thier & van Daalen’s Hypnotic GRID Pendant Lights Debut at Salone del Mobile
Mouth-blown glass crafted into knobbly shapes resembling an assortment of super-sized hard candies

Web Design/UX/UI

Chasing rainbows
Apparently, the very idea of colorblindness is hard to visualize. Take a shot at looking through my eyes

Work/Tools

How to build ground-breaking products: A manager’s guide
Talking to leaders and managers from teams at Shopify, Ironclad, Twitch, Uber, and more to learn about how they’re rethinking the way they work to keep pace with the outsized change in work right now

Unite 4
Turn any website into a deeply customizable app on your Mac

Architecture

Thanh Giong Office / DDconcept
If you think the outside is cool, wait until you see the inside of this office

The Bioclimatic Skyscraper: Kenneth Yeang’s Eco-Design Strategies
Yeang’s bioclimatic skyscrapers blend the economics of space with sustainability and improved living standards

H Arquitectes transforms 19th-century Barcelona terrace with brick extension
Arranged across three levels, the terraced home has been transformed from a single-storey building with two new brick levels that draw upon the building’s original design

Illustration

Voxel Shops and Food Stalls by Shin Oh Tuck Traditional Malaysian Culture into Nostalgic Renderings
Illustrator Shin Oh nestles childhood memories of visiting traditional Malaysian shops and food stalls within tiny three-dimensional renderings

Floor796
An ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station

Random

Translucent aerogel bricks could outperform their opaque counterparts
Boasting a compressive strength of 44.9 megapascals, which is reportedly “several times higher than clay insulating bricks…” which means that they could be used in the construction of load-bearing walls