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Weekly Design Links – 04/27/21

What’s A Year?

What’s A Year?

Repetition can provide familiarity and maybe efficiency or competence. Repetition is also said to breed contempt. The pandemic has created ground hog day feelings. We don’t know the day of the week or even the month. Time is increasingly meaningless. Life goes on–but how can we tell. I get lost too. I have my projects to keep my sanity–each one provides a glimmer of progress. Forward momentum is crucial for sanity. On to the 17th batch of links this year.

Animation/3D

Alignment to Air – Motion Design & Typography

Architecture

Stoney Rise Wine / Cumulus Studio

The Straw Pavilion / MIA Design Studio

Mars Architectes creates wooden apartment block enclosed by 1970s housing

Industrial Design

Moooi releases real-life version of “impossible to produce” virtual chair by Andrés Reisinger

Purist’s Sleek, Spill-Proof Scope Bottle Top

Sonnet155 is a “temporary handbag” made from discarded fruit peels

Degree’s new deodorant is designed with disabled people in mind

Art

Pressing Matters: Pavement Licker Pairs Up Musicians and Artists For Charity

Graphic Design/Packaging/Branding

Everyday canned food

Koto’s identity for apprenticeship startup Multiverse injects personality into the samey education sector

Web Design/UX/UI

14 Inspiring Examples of Interactive Maps in Web Design

Car Design History

Typography

A Very Niche, Very Logical Font Inspired by Vintage Typewriters + Python Script

Designing a Custom Typeface That Works for Indeed

Advertising/Technology

1,500 drones form scannable QR code in Shanghai skies

GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds

Design Work

Why having a multidisciplinary attitude is important

This is the average design leader’s salary in 2021