{"id":7444,"date":"2025-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:35:26","slug":"weekly-design-links-10-14-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-10-14-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 10\/14\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s often said that all art is political. Design work often gets a pass, but it shouldn’t. I don’t equate design with art\u2014there are skill overlaps, but the aims are fundamentally different. Still, that doesn’t mean design work is apolitical. As creators, we have some responsibility for how our labor is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t often dive into politics, and I won’t get on a soapbox now. But like all of these posts, the intent becomes clear once you dive into the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Space Exploration Logo Archive
<\/a>The collection spans more than 80 years of works and includes the most iconic and noteworthy logos distributed in seven chapters, starting with the best known up to the raw & rare ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domino\u2019s tasty new tagline is a jingle and logo rolled into one
<\/a>Domino\u2019s got Shaboozey to sing their new \u2018cravemark.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
<\/a>Wood sculptor from Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
<\/a>iOS 26\u2019s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows 11 design principles + tenets
<\/a>Our guiding force behind designing Windows for the AI era<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UX butterfly effect
<\/a>Understanding unintended consequences in design and how to plan for them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Industrial Design Student Work: Emergency Housing from Simple PVC Pipes
<\/a>…part of an approach to designing emergency housing, intended to respond to crisis situations following natural disasters or those linked to conflict. In a context where sustainable reconstruction is delayed, if not impossible, shelter becomes an immediate necessity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ikigai Cases
<\/a>Building this company is my Ikigai. It’s my way of turning my Dad’s disease into something meaningful in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Podcast Magic
<\/a>The simplest way to capture podcast insights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics\/Technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The New Aesthetics of Fascism
<\/a>“The aestheticization of politics remains in a way that doesn’t come with aggressive militarism but in a disguise of technocratic bureaucracy corporate control and manufactured media staging. Welcome to the age of friendly fascism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oatmeal: AI Art
<\/a>“Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutrition. That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings. And if that’s the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cartography of generative AI
<\/a>The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Classic 8\u00d78-pixel B&W Mac patterns
<\/a>I have a fondness for these old patterns and the original B&W Mac aesthetic, it reminds me of playing games like Dark Castle and Glider, messing around with HyperCard, and using Tex-Edit and hoarding early shareware programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s often said that all art is political. Design work often gets a pass, but it shouldn’t. I don’t equate design with art\u2014there are skill overlaps, but the aims are fundamentally different. Still, that doesn’t mean design work is apolitical. As creators, we have some responsibility for how our labor is used. I don’t often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7467,"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":[132,9,11,13,14,136,141,140,142,69,17,49,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-ai","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-mac","tag-patterns","tag-pixels","tag-politics","tag-sculpture","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows11-Lovingly-crafted.jpg?fit=1536%2C864&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","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=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}