{"id":7529,"date":"2025-11-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:47:48","slug":"weekly-design-links-11-04-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-11-04-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 11\/04\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The week before going to a conference is hectic. You’re trying to wrap things up so you can focus on the event. There are always fifteen other things happening\u2014such is life. I was able to attend Adobe MAX last week, and the new stuff is cool (see the Sneaks link below). But the best part of these things is always getting to reconnect with people. The week after is all about catch-up: trying to remember what you were doing and what you forgot to finish. I’m getting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology\/AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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AdobeMAX 2025 Sneaks
<\/a>Paul Trani and special guest Jessica Williams, showcasing innovative and experimental technologies from Adobe Research. Spoiler alert: there’s AI involved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This real-time Colin Farrell model both amazes and disturbs me
<\/a>An Unreal Engine facial test I can’t unsee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Spanish Pavilion, Bogot\u00e1 International Book Fair (FILBo) 2025
<\/a>The Spanish Pavilion at FILBo 2025 is conceived as a series of landscapes connected by the movement of mobile libraries. Common in rural areas, these institutions constitute essential infrastructure for universal access to knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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nudo noodle | Brand Identity
<\/a>By Han Gao<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Crayon Pine collection sees wood decorated with thousands of hand-drawn lines
<\/a>“In an era where design is often digital and streamlined, Crayon Pine embraces irregularity and slowness as a form of innovation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autonomous wheelchair with foldable tentacle legs can climb stairs and sit on the floor
<\/a>Toyota unveils autonomous wheelchair with foldable legs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Out of Print,\u2019 a Shepard Fairey Retrospective, Delves into the Power of Protest
<\/a>Out of Print, a retrospective of Fairey\u2019s work presented by Beyond the Streets, celebrates what the gallery calls \u201cthe rebellious, democratic force of ink and paper.\u201d More than 400 prints designed over the past few decades are joined by new works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Bad UX World Cup
<\/a>Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better). Your date picker must make it technically possible to pick the desired date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Linear spin on Liquid Glass
<\/a>…we saw an opportunity to take Liquid Glass\u2019s aesthetic qualities\u2014its translucency, depth, and physicality\u2014and apply them with a ProKit philosophy: purpose-built, disciplined, and designed for sustained focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Durves<\/a>
A design pattern tool for creating and exporting in SVG or PNG curved point design patterns through configurable properties<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Stuffed Memories
<\/a>Transforming ordinary stuffed animals into unique storytellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week before going to a conference is hectic. You’re trying to wrap things up so you can focus on the event. There are always fifteen other things happening\u2014such is life. I was able to attend Adobe MAX last week, and the new stuff is cool (see the Sneaks link below). But the best part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7542,"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":[28,132,16,9,11,13,14,74,17,49,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-3d","tag-ai","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","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\/11\/autonomous-wheelchair-toyota.jpg?fit=1800%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","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=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}