{"id":8677,"date":"2026-07-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:46:02","slug":"weekly-design-links-07-28-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-07-28-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 07\/28\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good news, bad news this week. Bad news first: my AI-powered WordPress plug-in stopped working. No idea why. It’s a little sad \u2014 maybe I’ll dig back in and figure out what broke, but for now, it’s dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news? Nothing specific \u2014 just a really good batch of links this week. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Illoca branding by Unseen Studio\u00ae<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture begins with paper. For Illoca, we rooted the entire brand in this idea. The layered weight of stacked drawings, the warmth of trace overlays, the considered marks of a pencil on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ColorSym: Symbols that speak color.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When color is the only way to convey information, millions of people are left guessing. ColorSym bridges this gap with universal symbols anyone can understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claude Cookbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical guides and examples for using Claude effectively<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tropical silence. Macahuite House by Studio Font<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The house designed by Studio Font is organized around an H-shaped composition, formed by two volumes connected by a central pergola that serves as a meeting and social space. Four vertical walls and a floating horizontal plane structure the whole, creating a sequence of interior and exterior spaces that intertwine with the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono\u2019s Wooden Assemblages<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aono continues to revitalize found objects, particularly discarded furniture. Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages and become the imaginative backdrop for the artist\u2019s constructed scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting Projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each piece is individually hand-sculpted out of stoneware clay, and is hand-glazed before being fired in an electric kiln in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Monllor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist\u2019s current work documents and reflects his immediate surroundings in Switzerland\u2019s Mittelland. Monllor toys with the vivid and vibrant colours of his palette, rendering objects in ways they cannot be perceived naturally in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Damien Aubin Documents a Former Soviet Mining Settlement Suspended in Time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is literally frozen in time. A former mining outpost for the Soviet Union, industrial operations ceased in 1998, and residents relocated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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KAMI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kami (\u7d19): paper in Japanese. A brown paper grocery bag. In leather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Make It Work vs. Make It Good<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDoes it work?\u201d is a binary question. \u201cIs it good?\u201d is a subjective question whose answer lives at the intersection of multi-disciplinary knowledge and taste, which is to say: it\u2019s harder to answer than \u201cDoes it work?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography\/Web Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Setting type like a printed page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fluid scales, balanced headings, drop caps, optical sizing, hanging punctuation. The browser now ships most of a typesetter’s toolkit in pure CSS, switched off by default until you ask for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Reading the news is the new smoking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quit. I feel great. You can too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news, bad news this week. Bad news first: my AI-powered WordPress plug-in stopped working. No idea why. It’s a little sad \u2014 maybe I’ll dig back in and figure out what broke, but for now, it’s dead. The good news? Nothing specific \u2014 just a really good batch of links this week. Enjoy. Graphic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8683,"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":[16,9,11,13,14,74,69,49,18,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-sculpture","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\/07\/Fumiaki-Aono.jpg?fit=1600%2C1026&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","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=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8691,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}