{"id":7472,"date":"2025-10-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:51:57","slug":"weekly-design-links-10-21-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-10-21-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 10\/21\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adobe Max is next week. I’m not prepared at all. It snuck up on me. If you are going to be there, reach out. I’ve gotta go build my schedule right now and get some stuff done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Industrial Designer Harry Colbert’s Striking Clock Concept
<\/a>20th-century Braun meets Loki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Brick Cult
<\/a>Chunky block letter that go together like Tetris.
Use it as a background with text over the top, or straight up for posters & logos. Mix and Match the caps and lowercase to get the perfect width.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI\/Motion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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7 Practical Animation Tips
<\/a>Everything beautiful felt like magic, and that magic felt completely out of reach. While it certainly requires developing good intuition, there are loads of tricks you can use to make your animations feel better without having to learn that \u201cmagic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advertising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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McDonald’s Street Fighter burger ads are a pixel-perfect hadouken of nostalgia
<\/a>Retro gaming sells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The NY Sign Museum Preserves the Richness of the City Through its Old Signs
<\/a>We\u2019re somewhere between an actual white box museum and it just being a bunch of stuff in someone\u2019s attic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IKEA catalogue
<\/a>For over 70 years, the IKEA catalogue was produced in \u00c4lmhult, constantly growing in number, scope and distribution. From the 1950s when Ingvar Kamprad wrote most of the texts himself, via the poppy, somewhat radical 1970s and all the way into the scaled-down 2000s \u2013 the IKEA catalogue always captured the spirit of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizen X, 2023 redesign
<\/a>The wordmark is custom drawn to establish a distinctive presence. It is paired with two typefaces that create a deliberate tension between tradition and innovation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nikita Busyak
<\/a>Artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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How to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off
<\/a>\u2026and the vibes are definitely off<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not you: your UX design job is frustrating and unfulfilling
<\/a>Marx\u2019s concept of alienation applied to today\u2019s design industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Management Values I Didn\u2019t Expect to Learn
<\/a>Design management is harder (and better) than I thought<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop acting like a boss. Start leading like an ally.
<\/a>Walking in as \u201cthe boss\u201d with a ready-made plan risks signalling that your agenda matters more than their reality. It creates distance when you should be building closeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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CLB Designs a Multigenerational Mountain Home in Wyoming
<\/a>Surrounded by the Teton Range to the north and Sheep Mountain to the east, the home seems to hover over the valley, an effect heightened by its careful placement on the steep, sloping terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adobe Max is next week. I’m not prepared at all. It snuck up on me. If you are going to be there, reach out. I’ve gotta go build my schedule right now and get some stuff done before. Industrial Design Industrial Designer Harry Colbert’s Striking Clock Concept20th-century Braun meets Loki Typography Brick CultChunky block letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7487,"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":[55,16,9,11,13,56,14,78,18,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-advertising","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-history","tag-industrial-design","tag-motion","tag-typography","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-Practical-Animation-Tips.jpg?fit=716%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","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=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}