Newsletter 142 📚

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🎧 May Playlist (Spotify)

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📌 The links

1. Reputations: Jean Widmer

2. Kaizen Component Library

3. Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

4. Synesthesia

5. The Anatomy of a Design System

6. Female Freelance Developers

7. Legibility – How and why typography affects ease of reading

8. Write like you design

9. Dropover is a macOS utility that makes Drag and Drop easier

10. Gerald Cinamon

11. Inside Burger King’s New Logo Strategy

12. MIMS Guest Mix: PATCHOULI BROTHERS (Dodo Records) — Montreal Disco Special

13. The Looking Glass: Higher Level Design

14. Good Design Is Intentional

15. OddContrast

16. Exactly.ai – AI for Artists

17. ‘Art of the Title’ Curator Lola Landekic is Obsessed with Title Sequences— And You Should Be Too

18. TextFX

19. Armin Hoffman at Yale

20. Bad Design Managers

21. A checklist for choosing type

22. Team, project, and file organization

23. Industry Insights: The rise of women skate photographers

24. Introduction to the trademarks of Italy, 1973

25. Into the mind of designer & co-founder Brian Collins

26. PJ Morton - Watch The Sun Live | The Mansion Sessions

27. How to log off

28. Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

29. 50 Years of hip-hop

30. Deck.Gallery

31. 77 Things I've Learnt

32. Why brands are obsessed with building community

33. How California Became a Haven for Postmodern Design

34. Movie Poster of the Week: The Title Treatment Hall of Fame

35. Pair Up – A place for creatives to find and offer their time to others with the goal of sharing, learning and problem solving with each other

36. Constraints in design

37. How to Enter the Flow State, "a Unique Mental State of Effortless Engagement"

38. iMac at 25: a visual history of Apple’s iconic all-in-one computer

39. Area 17 – The work of this storied Paris- and New York–based digital design firm has shaped the potential of web design

40. Clap Kent at NC 248 Radio 18-08-23

41. The new Google Fonts: find what you’re looking for

42. Flim helps you find the perfect image to express your ideas so you can be more efficient in your creative process

43. Sample Breakdown: The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023)

44. Which Retail Websites Have the Most Dark Patterns?

45. Death to the double diamond

46. My Expert Guide to User Interviews

47. Into the archive! We dive into the act of creative preservation today

48. Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series

49. Braun Design

50. 4000 Consumers, 4 Generations – A USPS Generational Study

51. Dietmar R. Winkler

52. Lightmate, the friendly light meter

53. Canadian Typography Archives

54. Discover the insights from the front lines of SaaS UI/UX design to build better products

55. How an MLB rebrand shook up the hip-hop world

56. Five Key Stages of The Creative Process

57. Sweden's brand identity guidelines

58. Goal Missed, Self Hit: Goal-Setting, Goal-Failure, and Their Affective, Motivational, and Behavioral Consequences

59. The Next Generation of Web Layouts

60. Visual Design Hacks for the Non-designer

61. Overview: Introduction to design systems

62. Color Contrast Cheat Sheet PDF

63. Twice studio

64. 8 micro tips for remarkably better typography

65. Monster List of UX Books

66. Jump cuts

67. Straight Outta Brixton - Adrian Jae ~ 10.10.23

68. Meet the skate industry’s under-the-radar heroes

69. fontain, a font-collection-system and a font-collection

70. LDS – Leslie David Studio

71. Selected Works: Album Covers from the ongoing collaboration between Michael Cina and Ghostly International, encompassing 2008—

72. The 2023 Linktree Creator Report

73. Interviews about visual design

74. Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it

75. Drawbeats

76. 1980s TV & Magazine Adverts and Catalogues

77. Made Index is a growing selection of American-made goods

78. James Lavelle presents: Living In My Headphones (25/10/2023)

79. Debate: is change always a good thing?

80. The Era of Design Entrepreneurship

81. High quality design tools

82. fontguessr

83. Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career

84. It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks

85. Deep Dives S3 | E4: David Hoang - How to prepare for design in 2025

86. Double Diamond Is Not How Most Companies Work

87. Why one brand is not enough

88. Facing a tedious to-do list? This trick could make it easier

89. Wu-Tang Clan’s origin story

90. Fixtured

91. Eli Escobar at House of Yes 9.1.23 ☆ House of Grooves

92. Invisible Details of Interaction Design

93. Incognito - Studio live streaming session - Little Big Beat Studios

94. The disappearance of visionary designers

95. Breaking down a design

96. DesignSystems

97. How to pivot your freelance creative business in 2023

98. The Essential Design

99. NASA+

100. Understanding Accessibility

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