{"id":6054,"date":"2024-12-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2024-12-03T00:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:47:02","slug":"weekly-design-links-12-03-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-12-03-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 12\/03\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fact that it’s December feels like we’re at the end of something\u2013a big milestone that we call a year. I put pressure on myself to get things done. It’s fabricated. There are no implications if I don’t post this. If I don’t create another Phase post<\/a> <\/a>(I did this last night\u2013better late than never). No one cares but me. When January rolls around, there will be more fake deadlines. Artists, designers, and creative folks in general need deadlines (real or not) to get things out the door. If I don’t make up a deadline, I’ll just noodle on it forever. I’ve got seventeen more projects to wrap up before the year ends, lemme get back to it. Enjoy the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sword of the Sea: Animating The Wraith
<\/a>By Joel Finney, Lead Animator at Giant Squid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Your Workouts Turn Into a Work of Art
<\/a>Using the maps from his daily runs, Duncan McCabe took the Strava art trend to new heights by creating an animated stickman that has become an online sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Branding\/Packaging<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Coolhaus by &Walsh
<\/a>Coolhaus, a range of ice creams and other frozen treats that looks to inspire other female and LGBT+ founders. For those thinking, \u2018what, like Rem Koolhaas?\u2019 \u2013 yes, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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NASA spacecraft captures stunning new images of Jupiter
<\/a>The photos highlight the gas giant’s chaotic weather patterns and colorful bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary Wagner\u2019s Photos Illuminate Rugged Icelandic Fjords and Shorelines
<\/a>Working exclusively in black-and-white, Gary Wagner\u2019s striking photos pare dramatic landscapes down to their essential shapes, lines, and tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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WAVESTELLAR<\/a>
A new cocktail bar experience from Kaohsiung. Developed by Bito\u2019s lab, Bitween, in collaboration with the restaurant group YONSHIN, it seamlessly blends tap-style drink service with screen-based media, creating an innovative and immersive drinking experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The root causes for the dev-design mismatch
<\/a>Designers use an unconstrained canvas tool to design for rule-based interactive systems, hoping the devs will perfect everything in production. This causes misalignment between designers and devs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Unlock Product Success Through Growth Design
<\/a>Growth design blends product design with growth strategy, creating product experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, and retention. It serves as the bridge between UX and business goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ebay\u2019s clean new interface is designed to court Gen Z and millennials
<\/a>A facelift to Ebay\u2019s UX inspired a new brand that\u2019s less cluttered and more human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Concentric Forms Escape the Confines of the Ceramic Vessel in Matthew Chambers\u2019s Sculptures
<\/a>Hypnotic and seemingly endless, the dynamic works appear like vast portals that descend into relatively small vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DEKO<\/a>
From the sister and brother founders at The Kickback, the DEKO turntable is fresh, accessibly priced, and intends on shaking up the market. You can connect to Bluetooth or use the RCA inputs to connect to your Hi-Fi system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intersection of Nature and Design: Maison Forestier’s Philosophy on Lighting
<\/a>The Parisian lighting brand has \u2013 since its topiary-inspired inception by Bernard Forestier in 1992 \u2013 carved a beatific niche in its industry, uniting passion, freedom and discovery to fashion radiant wares that meld unique aesthetics with keen functionality, to suit a diverse range of settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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SHED Revives a Mid-Century House in Portland With Japanese Minimalism
<\/a>Originally designed in 1963 by Saul Zaik, a revered figure in Pacific Northwest architecture, this home has been thoughtfully reimagined by SHED Architecture & Design to meet the aesthetic and functional needs of its new owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact that it’s December feels like we’re at the end of something\u2013a big milestone that we call a year. I put pressure on myself to get things done. It’s fabricated. There are no implications if I don’t post this. If I don’t create another Phase post (I did this last night\u2013better late than never). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6074,"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":[28,34,16,9,11,85,93,14,33,10,69,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-3d","tag-animation","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-ceramics","tag-experience-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-packaging","tag-photography","tag-sculpture","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/growth-design-product.jpg?fit=1408%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}