{"id":7654,"date":"2025-12-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:50:17","slug":"weekly-design-links-12-9-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-12-9-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 12\/9\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The end of the year promises new beginnings. How that happens varies wildly, but I’m hopeful. I’m trying to keep my focus on the horizon\u2013SO MANY METAPHORS. Enough already. Link time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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2025 Drone Photo Awards
<\/a>This competition welcomes submissions of aerial photography and videos captured through various means, encompassing fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps, dirigibles, rockets, kites, and parachutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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2025 Apple App Store Awards
<\/a>The App Store Awards are a chance to celebrate the titles that stood out in 2025\u2014and to honor the passion and creativity of the developers behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Josh Owen\u2019s Spiral Glass Vessels Are 3D Printed With Purpose
<\/a>As additive manufacturing is relatively new, those traversing the field often aim for their pieces to look similar to traditionally manufactured objects, yet with the power to create intensely complicated geometry \u2013 things that would either be too difficult or downright impossible to create. Thus, the impulse to minimize print lines seems natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Contemporary reinterpretation. Cercle Calong\u00ed by Anna Prats Joan Valls + Roger Panad\u00e8s
<\/a>The heritage building is characterized by a succession of ceramic walls with three vertical axes of arcades. The new fa\u00e7ade uses this concept in a contemporary way, combining the use of perforated and solid bricks and a composition of lattices in openings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Lessons From the Work of Frank Gehry
<\/a>Things that can evolve can better stand the test of time \u2014 and the longer they last, the more value they deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The joys and pains of type on screen
<\/a>Digital typography has replaced traditional metal and wood type, and the way we understand and work with typography has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
<\/a>We should want technology to benefit users first. I’m not sure if I currently trust most tech companies enough to believe that that is the case right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ornament and culture
<\/a>Interface as social signifier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work & Co: Book
<\/a>More than a retrospective, the book captures the ethos behind the work: close collaboration, iterative making, and leveraging digital craft to drive meaningful change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology\/Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Bird-of-paradise inspires darkest fabric ever made
<\/a>\u201cThe light basically bounces back and forth between the fibrils, instead of reflecting back out \u2013 that\u2019s what creates the ultrablack effect,\u201d Jayamaha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retro<\/a>
Retro is a social app that feels like a joy, not a habit. It\u2019s a friends-only photo journal where you share for yourself as much as your friends. It gently nudges you to find at least one moment each week to remember and then put that moment out there in a post so your friends know what you\u2019re up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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