“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
August is almost over and Fall is on our doorstep. I don’t feel it yet. There’s too much noise and chaos. Hopefully things will settle down sometime in the near future. I’m not holding my breath, but maybe. In the meantime, here’s one last batch of links for Summer.
Web Design/UX/UI
The Design System Encyclopedia • https://medium.com/@jon.moore/the-design-system-encyclopedia-91670b838c9f
The onion for Design Systems: atomic design and pace layering • https://uxdesign.cc/the-onion-for-design-systems-atomic-design-and-pace-layering-4cc59a3c486
Work
CPD Method • https://medium.com/@stevetauber/cpd-method-4a9043fbfdf5
The Ultimate Guide to the Founding Designer Role • https://firstround.com/review/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-founding-designer-role/
Leading with craft — a series about hands-on career paths in our industry • https://uxdesign.cc/leading-with-craft-a-series-on-hands-on-career-paths-in-our-industry-25aea911e708
Learnings from a Junior Designer at Google • https://medium.com/google-design/learnings-from-a-junior-designer-at-google-fe271dcf4c3e
Tools
Magicul Design File Converter: Convert between Adobe XD, Figma and Sketch with 1 click • https://www.producthunt.com/posts/magicul-design-file-converter
Sketch 68: Assistants • https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/sketch-68-meet-assistants-2080c11ee32a
Dimensions.com: an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings • https://www.dimensions.com/
Umami: a self-hosted web analytics solution • https://umami.is/
Advertising
Magnum – Social Distancing Towels By LOLA MullenLowe, Madrid • https://www.theinspiration.com/2020/08/magnum-social-distancing-towels-by-lola-mullenlowe-madrid/
Art/Photography
Victor Solomon mends dilapidated LA basketball court using Japanese art of Kintsugi • https://www.dezeen.com/2020/08/18/victor-solomon-kintsugi-court-basketball/
Tobias Hägg • https://www.airpixelsmedia.com/
Typography
The Weekly Typographic Podcast • https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/podcast
A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible • https://uxdesign.cc/a-guide-to-understanding-what-makes-a-typeface-accessible-and-how-to-make-informed-decisions-9e5c0b9040a0
Random/Technology
Is Harrison Ford in Solo: A Star Wars Story the best deepfake yet? • https://www.creativebloq.com/news/harrison-ford-han-solo-depfake
Townscaper Is a Wondrously Satisfying Architecture Cityscape Builder • https://design-milk.com/townscaper-architecture-cityscape-pc-game
Architecture
A Relaxing Holiday Retreat in the Woods is a Respite from City Life • https://design-milk.com/villa-tonden-is-a-holiday-retreat-made-up-of-three-house-shaped-volumes
The R wall in Fukui / Yoshichika Takagi + associates • https://www.archdaily.com/946197/the-r-wall-in-fukui-yoshichika-takagi-plus-associates
Data Visualization
7 Deadly Sins of Data Visualization • https://medium.muz.li/dataviz-sins-976f3a08948c
What happened to Summer?