{"id":8728,"date":"2026-08-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:11:04","slug":"weekly-design-links-08-18-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-08-18-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 08\/18\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I get fascinated by the most random things. Once something grabs my attention, I go down the rabbit hole and often don’t escape for hours, days, weeks, or years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week it was the YouTube channel The Vocalyst\u2026 so good \u2014 and many of this week’s links carry glimpses of that same pull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ability to go deep is always there. That’s what I love about the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Cardboard Chair for free (Nordwerk MC 302)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is welcome to produce this chair to use it for events and exhibitions or as a piece of furniture. We are doing this to make an impact, to give companies, organizations and the whole world a reason to either use more recycled and\/or recyclable material or even to upcycle waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Milk Cartons and Bottle Gourds Form Sipho Mabona\u2019s Tribute to His Late Father<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materially and conceptually, the works highlight how the personal and cultural intersect alongside the distinctly South African sense of resilience, one that emerges in the Black population\u2019s upcycling traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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R\u00e9veil Machine Branding<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The logo is built around Kunsthandel (Brutal Types), a raw, assertive display face that gives the brand its morning energy. It\u2019s paired with Conductor Condensed Bold (Frere-Jones Type) for headings and secondary elements, a narrow typeface that adds density while staying legible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Why Effective Leaders Get Branded as Problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a leader creates friction, organizations default to a single explanation: the leader needs to change. In reality, that friction usually comes from one or a combination of four different sources\u2014capability, perception, identity, or system. Because those look similar on the surface, organizations tend to categorize them under one bucket, behavior and make high-stakes decisions based on that assumption. The cost is not just ineffective development. It is flawed promotion decisions, stalled succession pipelines, and the quiet loss of high-impact leaders who are labeled as \u201cdifficult\u201d when they are, in fact, misread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design Is How It Tastes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

A simple utility to convert physical barcodes into digital passes for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. Entirely free and runs directly from your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Spilling the secrets: Discover the hidden truth inside LEGO\u00ae Ideas The X-Files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merging Mulder\u2019s iconic office with a mysterious forest encounter, this multi-layered LEGO\u00ae Ideas set is brimming with dozens of classified conspiracies and hidden references\u2026 Follow the clues, find the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vocalyst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocal Coach Reacts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pixel Skylines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban backgrounds from old video games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurzgesagt \u2013 In a Nutshell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism since 12,013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get fascinated by the most random things. Once something grabs my attention, I go down the rabbit hole and often don’t escape for hours, days, weeks, or years. This week it was the YouTube channel The Vocalyst\u2026 so good \u2014 and many of this week’s links carry glimpses of that same pull. The ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8723,"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":[34,9,11,13,14,58,59,74,69,49,161,87,30],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-animation","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-lego","tag-music","tag-random","tag-sculpture","tag-tools","tag-toys","tag-tv","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pixel-skylines.jpg?fit=1280%2C800&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","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=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}