{"id":5040,"date":"2024-03-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:47:03","slug":"weekly-design-links-03-19-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-03-19-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 03\/19\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s way too late to get into words\u2013I’ll leave you all with the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Learning by Helping by Carolina V\u00e1zquez Garc\u00eda
<\/a>An agency and academy that creates and teaches how to create social, environmental and sustainable innovation projects in a fresh, fun and joyful way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology\/Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cold Production: Creating Concrete Components Using Formworks Made of Ice
<\/a>By Architecture and Digital Fabrication students at ETH Zuric<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downpour
<\/a>The best way to make games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Bose Designs New Way to Attach “Open” Earbuds
<\/a>They “cuff,” rather than plug<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Keurig finally made a coffee pod with no plastic
<\/a>Keurig\u2019s CEO launched an in-house startup to create a new coffee system designed to put the K-Cups out of business<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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90% of designers are unhirable?
<\/a>Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn\u2019t cut it and how to fix it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spine by Dan Mall<\/a>
A story of when I walked away from a good project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portfolio Presentations & Design Work
<\/a>Over the years, there’s been a clear trend in the portfolio presentations I see: much more focus on doing “work” vs. “design work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This Perth Family Home Paves The Way For ‘True Net Zero’ Design
<\/a>Architect Matt Delroy-Carr (of MDC Architects) designed his own family home as an experiment, hoping to test and evaluate the best ways to reduce carbon in a typical build<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
<\/a>Today’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It\u2019s not good enough to be first with an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
<\/a>Modern design languages offer a lot of flexibility with their focus on fundamentals like typography, white space and simplistic icons. But sometimes, using an old school real world metaphor adds a lot of delight to an experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Reasons to Create for N<\/a>o Reason
<\/a>When I create purely for the joy of it, not expecting payment, something weird happens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s way too late to get into words\u2013I’ll leave you all with the links. Graphic Design\/Branding Learning by Helping by Carolina V\u00e1zquez Garc\u00edaAn agency and academy that creates and teaches how to create social, environmental and sustainable innovation projects in a fresh, fun and joyful way. Technology\/Tools Cold Production: Creating Concrete Components Using Formworks Made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,11,13,14,74,17,49,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-architecture","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reasons-To-Create.jpg?fit=1030%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}