{"id":8276,"date":"2026-04-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:51:20","slug":"weekly-design-links-04-07-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-04-07-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 04\/07\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April is shaping up to be pretty hectic. I usually manage these phases well, but there’s a cost. Some things will fall to the wayside. There are only so many hours in the day. The links don’t collect themselves. Or do they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Playrise’s easy-build playground lets kids be kids even when fleeing war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-designed with Eritrean, Sudanese and Palestinian child refugees over the last year, the Playrise playground is built from simple wood components that can be put together by anyone and customised with colourful accessories like monkey bars and climbing holds. The system is designed to address what Playrise sees as a critical gap in support for children living in displacement around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chrome x No-Comply Citizen 24L Skate Messenger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Citizen 24L x No-Comply features integrated skateboard carry, weather resistant construction in No-Comply green, and a custom high-vis print liner. Limited edition. Built to skate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A stunning new book surveys a century of French sign painting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type nerds, rejoice! Letterform Archive\u2019s Lettres D\u00e9coratives captures the immaculate, highly ambitious craft that once adorned bistros and boulangeries across the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECAL\u2014A Typographic Atlas: Mapping the Territory of Contemporary Type<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spatial design, conceived by Adrien Rovero, translates this indexing logic into a modular display system. Rather than isolating individual projects, Rovero\u2019s structure creates a continuous visual field\u2014part archive, part landscape. Visitors move through it as if navigating a map, guided by letters and numbers that function as coordinates across typographic terrain. The result is both systematic and exploratory. The framework provides clarity, while the diversity of the work encourages discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SLTF Curo – Heavy Display Typeface<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SLTF Curo is a super heavy display sans serif typeface designed for brands that demand presence. Built around a single extreme weight, Curo comes in five distinct corner style variants – Sharp, Crisp, Regular, Soft, and Rounded – giving designers a complete tonal range within a single typeface family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Niccol\u00f2 Rastrelli: They Don’t Look Like Me<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that we can change identity by changing our appearance is as old as body consciousness. From theatre to carnival, from religious festivals to initiation rites, the transformation of our appearance is ingrained in our psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Design Spells<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design details that feel like magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History of Software Design<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…celebrates the designs and designers that shaped the most powerful medium humanity has ever built<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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EZ Tree: Procedural Tree Generator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made by Dan Greenheck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matchbook Book: the archive keeping a lost design legacy alight<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once a mainstay of social life in Britain, the branded matchbook no longer accompanies a restaurant bill or sits on a pub\u2019s bar. This new book presents a vast collection of these miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April is shaping up to be pretty hectic. I usually manage these phases well, but there’s a cost. Some things will fall to the wayside. There are only so many hours in the day. The links don’t collect themselves. Or do they? Industrial Design Playrise’s easy-build playground lets kids be kids even when fleeing war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8290,"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":[14,10,74,18,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-industrial-design","tag-photography","tag-random","tag-typography","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260116-ATA-Circolo.webp?fit=1200%2C608&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}