{"id":8488,"date":"2026-05-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:07:45","slug":"weekly-design-links-05-26-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-05-26-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 05\/26\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five months are almost complete, which means one more to the halfway mark of 2026. This also means that I still haven’t completed my new workflow. Progress is being made, but it’s slow. The tech overlords make a lot of promises, but the AI tools are still quite slow. Oh well, we’ve still got a lot of nice things to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Four Levels Of Customer Understanding<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the different layers of reality that shape how people act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Ferrari Luce Marks a New Era for Maranello<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debuting in Rome, the all-electric four-door, five-seat sports car arrives as a fresh light with a radically simplified LoveFrom design anchored in Ferrari heritage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UniWise: A Masterclass in Clinical Geometric Identity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UniWise visual identity system is a masterclass in monolinear geometric construction, striking a definitive balance between intelligent technology and clinical precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AXIA Energia: Branding and Motion Design<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AXIA is born as the new name and the new expression of Eletrobras \u2014 a milestone that translates the, a branding and motion design project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atelier Bulk brand identity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atelier Bulk is a French boutique printer specialising in high-quality embellishments \u2013 hotfoil, embossing, debossing, and bespoke print finishes for luxury brands. Bordeaux-based studio Abmo led the rebrand, drawing inspiration from luxury fashion houses to position the printer as a leader in its category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Calm House \/ Carazo Arquitectura<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the heart of Nosara, this residence folds into the landscape, drawing light, air, and vegetation into every space. Designed around introversion and biophilia, its structure frames the forest from within. A singular roof unifies the house while maintaining its discreet presence beneath the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Bunker Archeology” Book Re-Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Virilio’s documentation of true Brutalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Beno\u00eet Pomel Revives Printmaking As A Hands-On Art Of Ink, Plate, And Careful Pressure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beno\u00eet Pomel is a French printmaker, engraver, and draughtsman whose practice centers on linocut, drypoint, and Tetra Pak printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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AI in Design Report 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, designers were experimenting with AI. In 2026, they\u2019re rebuilding around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Type.lol<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover type from independent foundries. type.lol is a living directory of the world’s independent type \u2014 built for designers hunting the right typeface, and for buying it directly from the foundry that made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Sites We Lost<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some sites we linked from the button don\u2019t exist anymore. Some expired, some were squatted by gambling rings, some got ad-injected on top of what they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five months are almost complete, which means one more to the halfway mark of 2026. This also means that I still haven’t completed my new workflow. Progress is being made, but it’s slow. The tech overlords make a lot of promises, but the AI tools are still quite slow. Oh well, we’ve still got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8500,"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":[16,9,43,11,13,14,74,49,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-books","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-tools","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ABMO_BULK_18.webp?fit=700%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","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=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8523,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/8523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}