{"id":8453,"date":"2026-05-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8453"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:05:44","slug":"weekly-design-links-05-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-05-19-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 05\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a whirlwind. My process is still not tidy\u2013but I’m seeing glimpses of what could be. There’s no easy. Links are still fun, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Mockups Were Never the Hard Part<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always has been, maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people, not the other way around. And perhaps unintuitively, everyone making mockups can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Delta Business Center By Picharchitects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than occupying the ground, the building rises above it, returning the terrain to ecological use and transforming the lower level into a climatic and environmental infrastructure. This strategy enables natural water management, reinforces biodiversity, and establishes a passive thermodynamic system that improves thermal comfort while reducing overall energy demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Classic Logo: RCA, 1967<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lippincott & Margulies’ 1967 logo for RCA Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation\/Film<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Wildwood by LAIKA Studios<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her brother \u2013 an odyssey shaped by love, power, and the courage to confront the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Pica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better font management for MacOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TUIStudio \u2014 Visual Terminal UI Designer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Figma-like visual editor for TUI applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new bio-inspired molecule captures solar energy and releases it as heat on demand, outperforming lithium-ion batteries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They reinvented the hearing aid by studying the human ear<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Founders Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cloud Logo Generator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How cloudy do you want your logo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whichbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for book recommendations? Rated by readers not robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a whirlwind. My process is still not tidy\u2013but I’m seeing glimpses of what could be. There’s no easy. Links are still fun, though. Work Mockups Were Never the Hard Part With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8467,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,16,66,13,14,74,17,49,18,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-8453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-animation","tag-architecture","tag-film","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-typography","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Corona-mass-ejection-sun-eruption-NASA.webp?fit=1600%2C873&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","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=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}