Weekly Design Links – 12/31/24

One last batch before the year ends. Since I took last week off, this one is chock full. Hopefully, you are doing something fun on New Year’s Eve, and you find these links later in the week. If you are looking for even more, I quietly dropped?another Phase post last week. See you all in 2025.

Art/Photography

Spectacular Award-Winning Photos From The 2024 AAP Magazine Street Photography Awards : The 2024 AAP Magazine Street Photography Awards celebrated the art of capturing everyday life with extraordinary vision, featuring award-winning photos from talented photographers across 11 countries and five continents.

Beams of Light Lance Monumental Architecture in Jun Ong’s Astral Installations : In artist Jun Ong’s luminous installations, rays of light pierce through concrete, stone, and steel. In his ongoing Stars series features LED strips that intersect with the human-built environment in monumental, illuminated geometries.

Graphic Design/Branding

Little critters on a big mission. The planet-positive snackers making giant leaps : Small Giants are smashing taboos with gourmet cracker ranges baked with cricket flour. Why? Crickets are super sustainable, truly wholesome and outrageously delicious.

Web Design/UX/UI

How to start building community around your design system : Design systems live or die by the community you build around them. …design system teams that have great adoption and buy-in from their organizations are the ones who have put real effort into the community around the design system.

14 UI Patterns for generative AI : New types of UI that generative AI has necessitated

Testing Visual Design: A Comprehensive Guide : Use methods like 5-second testing, first-click testing, and preference testing to gain insights into how users perceive your visual design.

Industrial Design

The Hello Kitty Rubik’s Cube design has no business being this cute : Our favourite cat that isn’t a cat takes brand collabs to another level.

Film/Animation

MOVING STILL — The Running, Art, & Life of Joe Greer : Renowned photographer Joe Greer is attempting to run a marathon under 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man trailer leaves fans divided : Marvel Entertainment has just dropped the trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the long-awaited animated series that was first announced way back in 2021

Tools

Spektra : A modern and intuitive gradient generator tool that helps designers and developers create beautiful color gradients for their projects.

Architecture

Curved brick protrusions fill Hainan cinema by One Plus Partnership : Chinese studio One Plus Partnership used red bricks to create wave-like surfaces inside this cinema lobby in the city of Haikou, China, emerging from the floors and ceilings to form a reception counter, tables and chairs.

Villa La Moraleja / Vasco Vieira Arquitectos : The primary goal with this project was to create a villa that exists in perfect harmony with nature, fostering a continuous dialogue between the built environment and its natural surroundings.

Illustration

Bits : Illustration by Giacomo D’Ancona

Technology

Magnetic “metasheet” material moves objects like a conveyor belt : The device is essentially a sheet made of elastic polymer with magnetic microparticles embedded in it. A kirigami pattern of tessellating triangles is etched into it, which makes it more flexible to deform on demand.

Scientists Built Tiny VR Goggles for Mice : The aptly named MouseGoggles allow lab mice to more realistically experience virtual reality.