August 20th: Weekly Design Links
“Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on products without first innovating the way you build them.”— Alex Schleifer
I’m at the Clarity Conference this week (actually right now) so I won’t be writing a whole bunch. The quote above was stolen from one of Jina Anne’s articles about design systems. This weeks links are numerous–gotta get back to the talks now.
Typography
Being a Mumbai Type Designer is About More Than Great Work — You Gotta Get the Lingos, and There’s Hundreds of Them • https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/being-a-mumbai-type-designer-is-about-more-than-great-work-you-gotta-get-the-lingos-and-theres-hundreds-of-them
ADVERTISING/FASHION SUMMER 2019 by Made Up • https://www.behance.net/gallery/84129719/ADVERTISINGFASHION-SUMMER-2019
Architecture
GN Chapel / Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados • https://www.archdaily.com/922318/gn-chapel-miguel-pinto-guimaraes-arquitetos-associados
Entwined timber columns define structure of The House of Three Trees • https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/09/the-house-of-three-trees-jk-ar-architecture-south-korea/
Tintagel Castle Bridge in Cornwall has a gap where it meets in the middle • https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/09/tintagel-castle-bridge-william-matthews-associates-cornwall/
NEST Arrives on the Brooklyn Children’s Museum Rooftop • https://design-milk.com/nest-arrives-on-the-brooklyn-childrens-museum-rooftop
Women’s Dormitory & Meditation Building / Walllasia • https://www.archdaily.com/922727/womens-dormitory-and-meditation-building-walllasia
Slow Yangzhou x Xinhua Bookstore by Wutopia Lab • https://retaildesignblog.net/2019/08/13/slow-yangzhou-x-xinhua-bookstore-by-wutopia-lab/
Web Design/UX/UI
Domino’s Pizza is locked in a legal battle over the future of web design • https://www.fastcompany.com/90385375/dominos-is-locked-in-a-legal-battle-over-the-future-of-web-design
Your Product Demo Sucks Because It’s Focused on Your Product • https://firstround.com/review/Your-Product-Demos-Suck-Because-Theyre-Focused-on-Your-Product/
Graphic Design/Branding
Host Home by Studio NinetyOne • https://www.behance.net/gallery/73395969/Host-Home
New Logo for Lotus • https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_for_lotus.php
Industrial Design
Calendar Tape Set • https://www.presentandcorrect.com/products/masking-tape-calendar
UV Printed Plywood Side Tables by Craft Combine • https://design-milk.com/uv-printed-plywood-side-tables-by-craft-combine
The Thinness Collection Uses Lightness to Challenge Gravity • https://design-milk.com/the-thinness-collection-uses-lightness-to-challenge-gravity
Lake + Wells Turns Their Modular Jax Lighting System into a Screen • https://design-milk.com/lake-wells-turns-their-modular-jax-lighting-system-into-a-screen
minimalist leather wallet • https://www.behance.net/gallery/82817255/minimalist-leather-wallet
Art/Animation
an algorithm and an artist carefully compose portraits from thousands of lines of thread • https://www.designboom.com/art/ani-abakumova-algorithm-thread-portraits-08-08-2019/
1,2,3 Soleil: Seth Takes Over a Massive Château in Bordeaux, France • https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/1-2-3-soleil-seth-takes-over-a-massive-chateau-in-bordeaux-france/
Textural Geometric Patterns Are Paired with Delicately Rendered Portraits in Embroideries by Sol Kesseler • https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/embroideries-by-sol-kesseler
Sparkling Balls of Paint and Glitter Explode and Absorb in a New Experimental Short Film by Rus Khasanov • https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/unity-by-rus-khasanov
Illustration
-ing Social Characteres by Thunder Rockets • https://www.behance.net/gallery/84095533/-ing-Social-Characteres
Design Thinking
PERFORMANCE MATTERS • https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/
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