{"id":7752,"date":"2025-12-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:57:05","slug":"weekly-design-links-12-30-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-12-30-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 12\/30\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here we are. The new year is almost upon us. There’s no rest ahead. There’s a lot to do and not enough hours in the day. Nothing new there. Happy New Year, gang! See you all on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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X Games rebrand
<\/a>X Games operates as both a showcase and a proving ground. Its identity must hold that intensity while remaining clear, immediate, and unmistakable at any scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Greg Dean Mann’s Elegant Concrete Chess Board
<\/a>“When I was a kid, I played on a chess set with a marble board and solid metal pieces,” he writes. “I always loved how moving a piece felt serious because of the weight and materials.” To create his own version, Mann 3D printed 64 PLA components, and formed them into an 8×8 grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World\u2019s First Fully Solar-Powered \u2018Autonomous Motorcycle\u2019 Unveiled
<\/a>Unlike designs that rely on flat panels, Solaris uses \u201ca curved, 360-degree photovoltaic skin that captures light from multiple directions throughout the day,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attachable exoskeleton for dogs helps them walk again after injury or illness
<\/a>The design avoids screens, buttons, or commands for the animal, as the interaction is based only on walking. If the dog stops, the system stops. If the dog moves, the system responds. This reduces confusion and stress for the animal and keeps the experience close to normal walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation\/Advertising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Porsche just set a new standard for Christmas ads
<\/a>Finally, an AI-free festive campaign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nad Chishtie
<\/a>How to get hired as a designer at a rocket ship startup<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tender leadership with a bit of mischief
<\/a>We often shy away from showing our \u201csoft\u201d side at work. But what if that\u2019s our biggest strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craft Over Scale: The Quiet Pursuit of Meaningful Work with Jeff Sheldon
<\/a>If you\u2019re trying to make meaningful things without losing yourself in the process, this conversation is for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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8bitcn\/ui
<\/a>A set of 8-bit styled components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt Engineering by Lee Boonstra
<\/a>This whitepaper discusses prompt engineering in detail. We will look into the various prompting techniques to help you getting started and share tips and best practices to become a prompting expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we are. The new year is almost upon us. There’s no rest ahead. There’s a lot to do and not enough hours in the day. Nothing new there. Happy New Year, gang! See you all on the other side. Graphic Design\/Branding X Games rebrandX Games operates as both a showcase and a proving ground. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7777,"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":[55,132,34,43,11,13,14,49,21,30],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-advertising","tag-ai","tag-animation","tag-books","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Porche-animation-ad.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","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=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}