{"id":8659,"date":"2026-07-14T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:55:10","slug":"weekly-design-links-07-14-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-07-14-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 07\/14\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Running a little late, but what’s time anyway. Enjoy the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packaging\/Industrial Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Propeller’s All-Paper Package Design for Sunology’s Sleek Battery System<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the battery weighing as much 30.5 kg, the packaging is built from paper \u2013 strong honeycomb board, paperboard corner reinforcements and paper straps \u2013 balancing the needs of transport with a considered unboxing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SURI Reimagines Toothpaste With a Refillable, Displayable System<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All together, SURI Restore Gel Refillable Toothpaste reframes toothpaste as a reusable object rather than disposable packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How I Work: Rad Smith, Ski Map Designer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rad Smith discovered the world of hand-painted ski maps when it dawned on him that the maps he\u2019d relied on for years all came from one guy. Today, he is that guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How to design arrows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An in-depth conversation with PP best and brightest type designers on how to nail the design of typography\u2019s more identifiable (but easily ill-designed) glyph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praktika: National Institute of Architecture Branding<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The identity draws from the interwar spirit of the Kaunas Central Post Office, where national style meets functionalism. The black and white folk pattern embedded in the building\u2019s floors is reinterpreted as both a decorative national reference and a functional modernist graphic system. This turns the historical motif into a contemporary part of global architectural and artistic language.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018The Eames Houses\u2019 Explores the Homes That Shaped Modern Design<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eames Houses, a new book from Phaidon, offers the first comprehensive look at that body of work, collecting every residential project the duo designed between 1945 and 1954.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Derrick Lin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An observer of the tiny moments of ad agency life, figuratively speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helena Minginowicz Transforms Humble Paper Towel into Ethereal Paintings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCivilizations are remembered through their monuments, but understood through the things they throw away,\u201d says artist Helena Minginowicz, whose sensitive paintings interrogate our understanding of value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Designing for trust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taste has more nuance than the screenshot crowd allows, and trust has its own nuance on top of that. They sit side by side. A product can be tasteful and still make you hesitate before you hand over your savings. It can be plain and forgettable and still earn the benefit of the doubt because nothing in it makes you doubt. The work needs both, and we name the second one far less often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Astryx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An open source design system that’s fully customizable and agent ready<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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GP House \/ AtelierM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GP House is born from the tension between two curves: the corner of the neighborhood, which defines its urban front, and the lagoon that opens up at the back of the lot. Between the two, the house constructs a spiral geometry that organizes the program, shapes the circulation, and defines the way the landscape is inhabited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Wallpapers by Nomad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A love letter to California, mapped out. Four topographic studies of the landscapes that shaped us, from the depths of Death Valley to the shores of Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Diamonds are Made?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep underground below the crust of Earth, The pressure of 10,000 elephants and the temperature of lava are creating a chemical reactions with rocks. These rocks, called kimberlite rise to the surface with magma eruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Running a little late, but what’s time anyway. Enjoy the links. Packaging\/Industrial Design Propeller’s All-Paper Package Design for Sunology’s Sleek Battery System Despite the battery weighing as much 30.5 kg, the packaging is built from paper \u2013 strong honeycomb board, paperboard corner reinforcements and paper straps \u2013 balancing the needs of transport with a considered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8652,"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":[16,9,43,11,13,15,14,33,10,74,49,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-8659","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-illustration","tag-industrial-design","tag-packaging","tag-photography","tag-random","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/helena-minginowicz.jpg?fit=1536%2C874&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}