{"id":7627,"date":"2025-12-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:48:14","slug":"weekly-design-links-12-2-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-12-2-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 12\/2\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been trying to take things as they come. It’s hard when things are moving really fast to take a moment and feel it. When I look at the date, I see how much has changed from 1\/1\/25 to now. At the same time, nothing has changed\u2013yet. It’s coming, time to get on the roller coaster and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A S\u00e3o Paulo Apartment Designed Around the Owner\u2019s 5,000 CDs
<\/a>Some homes are designed to impress; others are designed to reflect the people who live inside them. Apartment NUBE, designed by Nati Minas & Studio + Flip\u00ea Arquitetura, manages to do both while floating \u2013 figuratively, of course \u2013 like a cloud above S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil\u2019s tree-lined Jardim Europa neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kovo 11 Park by Inout.designstudio: Revitalizing Urban Nature and Community Life in Kaunas
<\/a>Spanning 6,932 square meters, the renewed park transforms a once underutilized green space into a vibrant, multifunctional hub that supports leisure, recreation, and social interaction for residents and visitors alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LYM SPACE by PAK Architects
<\/a>A poetic office-commercial building in Hanoi shaped like a blooming flower, merging concrete strength with terrace greenery and spiritual softness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Royal Albert Hall gets a modern rebirth in majestic rebrand
<\/a>Heritage design gets a flexible, future-proof revamp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Tomohiro Okazaki\u2019s \u2018Paper Study\u2019 Transforms a Quotidian Material into Mesmerizing Animations
<\/a>A series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Steven Heller\u2019s Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
<\/a>…what I find very appealing is the contrast within each letter: a juxtaposition of heavy (large) and light (small) dots, which gives the convincing allusion that static lines of type are fading in and out as if on a dot-matrix display or TV screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIA\u2019s identity for an electronic festival mimics music with a typeface made of pulsating particles
<\/a>The neon green accent colour of the French festival\u2019s 2025 identity was so catchy that attendees integrated the hue into their outfits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UX Is Your Moat (And You\u2019re Ignoring It)
<\/a>What wins is the model that people don\u2019t want to leave. The one that feels like home. The one where switching would mean losing something\u2014not just access to features, but fluency, comfort, all those intangible things that make a tool feel like yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exposure<\/a>
Designers often take pride in being introverts. Left alone with our work, we\u2019d do anything to avoid having to talk to someone. That\u2019s a problem when your job is literally about understanding the world around you. People, companies, markets, economics, and everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering
<\/a>A deeper look at how design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning \u2014 and why a shared language of making is the only way to build real shipping velocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DesignOps as culture builders
<\/a>Simple ways to build and scale team culture as Design Operations practitioners<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Talanoa email
<\/a>Talanoa organizes your emails like your favorite messaging apps \u2014 by sender, not threads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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