{"id":7148,"date":"2025-07-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:43:46","slug":"weekly-design-links-7-22-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-7-22-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 7\/22\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You\u2019ve probably noticed by now\u2014AI doesn\u2019t often make its way into these posts. Not because I\u2019m anti\u2011AI. I use it all the time\u2014maybe even daily. I\u2019ve been messing around with some of the vibe\u2011coding tools lately, and as a designer, I\u2019ve found them empowering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m firmly in the \u201cAI is a tool\u201d camp. But here\u2019s the thing: most of what I see generated by AI doesn\u2019t move me. It often feels flat, hollow\u2014I find it lacking and often shallow. I’ve seen some good uses of AI, but I gravitate towards the human touch, beautiful errors, and happy accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that said\u2026 the very first link below? It\u2019s from an AI filmmaking contest. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Total Pixel Space
<\/a>A short film by Jacob Adler. Total Pixel Space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the earth, from every possible angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Frame of preference
<\/a>A history of Mac settings, 1984\u20132004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devouring Details
<\/a>an interactive reference manual for interaction-curious designers, containing 20 chapters with 20 downloadable React components<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data Visualization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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BuildMyTransit.nyc
<\/a>Interactive Transit System Designer & Simulator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Glow-in-the-Dark Animal and Its Colorful, Neon Fur Captured on Camera for the First Time
<\/a>The glow-in-the-dark phenomenon occurs when the mammal’s fur is exposed to specific wavelengths of light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaping Lemurs! Global Nature Abounds in the 2025 BigPicture Competition
<\/a>BigPicture aims to highlight the earth\u2019s phenomenal biodiversity and encourage important conservation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Goodreads finally has a new logo (and it actually looks\u2026 good?)
<\/a>The social reading platform’s new look is only twenty years too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lila Molino Branding
<\/a>The icon is a simplification of this costumbrist concept as it\u2019s an engraving of the core element: corn. Almost all taquerias in Mexico use hand-painted signs, where grid-based typographic errors have no importance compared to the beauty found in their imperfections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Just In: Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture
<\/a>Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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GAK House \/ Bernardes Arquitetura
<\/a>Designed as a meeting and resting space for the family, Casa GAK responds to the residents’ desire for a residence that integrates with the landscape and remains invisible to those passing by on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random\/Video Games<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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ATARI 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition
<\/a>A brand new version of the iconic console in PAC-MAN yellow with illuminated character icons across the front. Play retro games just like you remember them on a system upgraded for today with HDMI output and backward and forward compatibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium
<\/a>Showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers, and publishers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve probably noticed by now\u2014AI doesn\u2019t often make its way into these posts. Not because I\u2019m anti\u2011AI. I use it all the time\u2014maybe even daily. I\u2019ve been messing around with some of the vibe\u2011coding tools lately, and as a designer, I\u2019ve found them empowering. I\u2019m firmly in the \u201cAI is a tool\u201d camp. But here\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7171,"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":[16,11,41,66,13,56,10,74,21,20,29,19],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-architecture","tag-branding","tag-data-visualization","tag-film","tag-graphic-design","tag-history","tag-photography","tag-random","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-video-games","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mac-1984-embroidery.3000.jpg?fit=1600%2C887&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}