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Weekly Design Links – 05/07/24

I’m running on 5 hours of sleep. It’s been a long day. I don’t have much left in the tank for typing words. I’ll leave you all with the usual barrage of links.

Web Design/UX/UI

The polish paradox
The more you polish, the less you see

Photography

World Press Photo: 2024 Contest winners
The selection encourages greater understanding and awareness of current events, as well as serves as a reminder of the need for press freedom in all corners of the world

Vlad
Russian street photographer

Typography

Match
Hannes von Döhren wanted to create a typeface that scores with a simple idea: Appearing compact with certainty and sticking to its principles – not leaving a doubt in its message

The book of ornamental alphabets
by Delamotte, F. (Freeman), 1814-1862

Architecture

The Cosmic ONE Makes Tiny Smart Homes a Sustainable Reality
Cosmic is attempting to streamline the process by inviting customers to spec out solar powered homes with the same ease as specifying options while buying a car.

Art

Through Porcelain Shards and Hundreds of Threads, Helena Hafemann Shatters Notions of Value
“I want to create little moments of irritation in which you ask yourself whether time is really always moving forward, or whether it is perhaps possible that, just this once, it can make a broken plate grow back together again.”

Graphic Design

Logo System
Get inspired by exploring this library of real and fictional logos

Zelman Meats
Designed by Sam Lachlan of Red Dot Studio, identifies Misha Zelman’s steakhouse in Knightsbridge, London

Random

I’m transfixed by the world’s longest collaborative flipbook animation
Some people couldn’t resist subverting the experiment

Map of the web
By Henry Nguyen