{"id":8735,"date":"2026-09-01T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:49:46","slug":"weekly-design-links-09-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-09-01-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 09\/01\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The hard way isn’t sexy, efficient, easy to sell, or even useful. But a lot of the best work comes from someone bullheaded enough to put in the time and make it just so. In a world built on optimization, that’s not something we try to emulate. We treat it as an oddity, something to gawk at. They must be crazy to do that. Crazy is the easiest explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve been here, deep inside the creative wormhole, you know it isn’t a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Branding Calendly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One link to rule them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Paul\u2019s Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brand identity for the London landmark known as \u2018The People\u2019s Cathedral\u2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Polaroid Turns Pikachu and Friends Into Instant Cameras<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created to celebrate Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s 30th anniversary, the limited-edition Polaroid x Pok\u00e9mon collection reworks three of the photography brand\u2019s instant cameras around Pikachu, Sylveon, and the franchise\u2019s ubiquitous Pok\u00e9 Ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louis Vuitton and Singer Take the Porsche 911 Somewhere Unexpected<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What became an unusually comprehensive collaboration began with something much smaller: a Singer client wanted a Louis Vuitton clock installed in their car. Louis Vuitton approached Singer about creating it, and Singer chief strategy officer Mazen Fawaz says the conversation quickly expanded until \u201cthe collaboration was extended to encompass every element of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A single artist spent 14 years making this hand-drawn animated movie, and every frame of the trailer looks stunning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Saga of Rex is about a fox that gets abducted by aliens, and it looks beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Raney Davis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Designer, 5\u2019 7\u201d on a good day\u2063<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional Korean folklore, attire and weaponry inspire this artist’s striking fantasy character designs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover the creative fantasy art of Grayboxx Essennoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mosaic Type Generator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subway tile lettering. Pure vector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rouxinol House \/ Sergio Sampaio Archi + Tect\u00f4nica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2,000-square-meter site of Rouxinol House, located in the Para\u00edba Valley in S\u00e3o Paulo, presented significant challenges in defining the architectural design. While it offered magnificent views of the Jaguari River reservoir, the design also had to address a 50-meter slope and the presence of over 300 surveyed trees. Minimizing environmental impact was non-negotiable\u2014a combination of factors that determined the design decisions from the initial concept to the specification of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We used to log off<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online used to be a place you could leave. We designed the exit out of it because an exit reads as a leak. Here is why building it back is a design responsibility, and what that means now that AI is dissolving the last seam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hard way isn’t sexy, efficient, easy to sell, or even useful. But a lot of the best work comes from someone bullheaded enough to put in the time and make it just so. In a world built on optimization, that’s not something we try to emulate. We treat it as an oddity, something to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8743,"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":[34,16,9,11,66,13,14,49,18,20,30],"class_list":["post-8735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-animation","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-film","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-tools","tag-typography","tag-ux","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/StPaulsCathedral.jpg?fit=1500%2C844&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735","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=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}