{"id":5929,"date":"2024-11-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:03:43","slug":"weekly-design-links-11-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-11-05-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 11\/05\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve come so far. The end of the year is just over there, out of reach, but you can smell it coming. There’s still work to do, books to read, and goals to knock out. Did you ever have senioritis<\/a>? If you are a high achiever, probably not. If you are easily distracted, like me, then it’s a real thing. I’m not there yet, but it’s a battle. Let the links show\u2013I’m still on task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Whoa, Vol. 1
<\/a>Conversations To Make You Feel Human: A limited edition print publication of 100 copies exclusively sold at Metalabel (for American collectors), and an unlimited digital edition worldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
<\/a>Originally published in 2018, Flexible Typesetting has sold thousands of copies and given a new generation of designers fresh mental models to craft meaningful, multidimensional typography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HTML is for people
<\/a>HTML isn\u2019t only for people working in the tech field. It\u2019s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one\u2014the one the web is built on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Made in Figma: The National Park Service goes from paper to pixels
<\/a>How do you design an app for 431 diverse national parks and monuments? By taking a page from iconic NPS park brochures. Learn how a small team adapted Massimo Vignelli\u2019s seminal design system for a digital interface<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designing for anyone: The power of accessible products
<\/a>…accessible design isn’t just about adhering to technical guidelines – it’s about creating products that work for anyone, in any situation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Japan Airlines’ sleek rebrand is a soaring success
<\/a>Traditional heritage meets modern design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Nothing like this has been done before for Bond\u2019: Behind the design of the stunning new James Bond book covers
<\/a>Artist Michael Gillette returns to 007 after 16 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Google\u2019s NotebookLM is one of the most powerful use cases for AI
<\/a>The free tool now lets you create custom audio summaries and apply AI to your notes in new ways<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Zenga bros’ lamps, desks, and camper vans spontaneously turn into skateboard ramps<\/a>
…a series of furniture pieces which are custom built to accommodate the urge to skateboard anytime, anywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mola Structural System
<\/a>A new way to study, teach and design structures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Geria Lanzarote rug by Jose A Gand\u00eda-Blasco Canales for Gan
<\/a>Spanish textile brand Gan has released a woollen rug that replicates the unique topography of La Geria \u2013 a protected landscape on Lanzarote, where wine is grown in conical pits dug into the volcanic soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Note to New Design Managers
<\/a>Having elevated a handful of talented folks into design management roles, I\u2019ve come to observe a few things they can benefit from when they take on this new responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve come so far. The end of the year is just over there, out of reach, but you can smell it coming. There’s still work to do, books to read, and goals to knock out. Did you ever have senioritis? If you are a high achiever, probably not. If you are easily distracted, like me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5953,"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":[43,11,13,14,49,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-books","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","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\/11\/zenga-bros-skate-break.jpg?fit=1600%2C798&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929","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=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}