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Weekly Design Links – 09/05/23

I finally got around to seeing Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. It’s visually stunning and without spoiling anything, it has a great creative message. In a period of my life where compromise is the norm, this hit home for me in a really nice way.

Work

When creatives quit
As creative managers, we take it personally when creatives quit. How should we cope?

The Rebalancing of Design Management
All the people-focused work we all care about doing isn’t going to matter because the product won’t exist for long

Technology

Releaf
Manufacturer of sustainably made packaging from fallen leaves

Industrial Design

The newest Lego set is designed to teach kids Braille
The bumps on each brick spell out the letters and numbers of the Braille alphabet

Glow-in-the-dark Analogue Pocket Game Boy Will Definitely Sell Out Fast
The best way to play Game Boy games is about to get even better

Web Design/UX/UI

The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
Consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes

Creating coherence: How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms
Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to take a cross-platform approach to components

Planta
Keep your plants alive

Architecture

Valley House
By See Design Studio, Interstruct, Sean Gorman, Gradient Landscapes

Block Party
Six friends club together to side-step the excesses of the runaway housing market

Random

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
Why is this bridge here?

Design Jobs

Director, Product Design – Design Systems, CNN
New York City, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle, Washington; or Culver City, California