Newsletter 136 📚

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🎧 February Playlist (Spotify)

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📌 The links

1. Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts

2. Pattern Generator

3. Wayfinder

4. Glitterbox Radio Show 223: Presented by Melvo Baptiste

5. Removal.AI For Desktop

6. About Legibility and Readability

7. Design Systems 101

8. The Designers: PORTO ROCHA’s Maddy Angstreich on remote working, learning to code, and more

9. Socialized Streaming

10. Why the US has two different highway fonts

11. Brickit

12. Free AI Meme Generator

13. Behind the powerful serenity, spirituality and sexuality of Carlota Guerrero

14. Oral history interview with Rudolph de Harak, 2000 April 27

15. ronan bouroullec reflects on context, communication and collaboration for friedman benda's 'design in dialogue'

16. How Saul Bass Created The Art Of Movie Title Design

17. Free Sample UI Chunks E01: Buttons

18. Understanding Kerning & Tracking

19. Sessions.us

20. Ghostly with special guests Lichen @ The Lot Radio 07 - 12 - 2021

21. On Creativity | Claudio Guglieri | Independent Designer and Creative Director

22. The Art of Design Spec'ing

23. Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes

24. The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers

25. Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work

26. Smart ideas for multiple income streams for graphic designers

27. MD Primer: the Pursuit of Imperfection

28. Mindfully curated color palettes

29. Transforming the Black Experience in Design

30. Making typefaces that open a new era

31. AIGA Design Teaching Resource

32. The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

33. Ghostly: Italo Disco

34. The Power of Design

35. Oracle Cards of Design Manifestos

36. Online guide to design management and procurement

37. 20.06.21 Boogaloo Latin Soul Show - Warren Boogaloo

38. Coding with Character

39. How to write a killer design brief: a definitive guide

40. The vanishing designer

41. Bagerich Font

42. Gradient Colors Collection Palette

43. The ultimate guide to monochromatic colors in graphic design

44. We Need Graphic Design Histories That Look Beyond the Profession

45. Typeheist Font Foundry

46. Anonymous Camera lets anonymise photos and videos in real time, locally on device

47. Jazz-Funk/Brit-Funk Classics & Curios 1970-1983

48. Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat? Ask the overworked, underpaid illustrators

49. Workona. The essential work organizer for the browser

50. User testing templates & examples

51. Jay Z and No Age designer Brian Roettinger on music as a 'gateway drug' to design

52. Browsing the web in 2021 is a terrible experience

53. ‘The cover is like a piece of art in itself’: 32 years of Guardian Weekend magazine

54. Heyday is an AI thought partner that turns your conversations into notes, reading into quotes, and ideas into posts

55. 7 Artist’s Tips That Will Change How You Work Forever

56. Upper Egypt Series #61 – Clap Kent

57. Enzo Mari - Apartamento Magazine

58. Exploring disfluency: Are designers too sensitive to harder-to-read typefaces?

59. Pioneer: Robert Miles Runyan

60. This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

61. Designing with screenshots. Are you an idiot for not doing it?

62. Motion One

63. Dutch Graphic Roots

64. The Funk Files: A 2001 Mixtape compiled by Egon and Dante Carfagna

65. The Pandemic's Silver Lining? A Diagnostic Revolution

66. Graphic Design History Resources

67. Design’s New Wave

68. How design became socially conscious: Get inspired with Dropbox and The Ulm School of Design’s new digital archive

69. Product Design by Google — Part 1

70. Alfa Mist 'Bring Backs' Live at Metropolis

71. Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive

72. There Is No Such Thing As Neutral Graphic Design

73. Checklist Design

74. IBM Logo Manual

75. Prototyping for Voice - Blending Interaction & Conversation Design

76. Jack Forrest’s daily poster project puts an emphasis on bold typography

77. Simplify

78. CoType Foundry

79. How to Set a Hybrid Work Schedule That Works for You

80. Meet the Designer Making Custom Fonts for Spike Lee

81. The Daily Heller: Designing Women Get Their Due

82. VULFPECK with CORY WONG (for the first time) /// Live at the Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles 6-22-16

83. Electric Car Sound Design

84. Links to useful sites

85. Millennials Never Wanted Ping Pong Tables At Work — But It’s All We Got

86. Godly

87. A firm turn toward the objective: Josef Müller-Brockmann

88. Eli Escobar End of Summer Mix

89. Good Finds by Briefbox

90. “David Kennedy is my hero” – a tribute by Susan Hoffman

91. EditorClub

92. Magnetic Mix 167: Kraak & Smaak

93. Thursday

94. Don Norman, godfather of UX: “Bad design is bad for the planet”

95. Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

96. I studied the fonts of the top 1000 websites. Here's what I learned

97. Gallup Finds a Silver Bullet: Coach Me Once Per Week

98. Accessible design: How much motion is too much motion?

99. Type Tuesday: Warhammer III’s Typeface Designed By Pentagram’s Hudson-Powell Is All In The Details

100. Loom – Free screen recorder for Mac and PC

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