
Featured image of from the Beyond Monospace article describing making braces as curvy as they are at the top of the image is a matter of taste

## Links of the week ending 28 June 2024

[Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/beyond-monospace-the-search-for-the-perfect-coding-font) - by Evil Martians

[FiftyFifty Spotlights Typography’s Power to Unite Us](https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/fiftyfifty-typography-exhibition/)

[Typography - Letterform Archive](https://oa.letterformarchive.org/)

[Disorder - Chris Ashworth, Graphic Designer](https://vol.co/collections/disorder)

[Splash of city colours hope to entice visitors](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevvw55vgeko)

[The Euro 2024 logo is packed with clever Easter eggs](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/euro-2024-logo-design)

[I tried colour analysis and it was much harder than it looks](https://www.varsity.co.uk/fashion/27835)

[Rocketicons](https://rocketicons.io/en/icons) - A funny way handling icons

✨ and,

[CoverJunkie - A celebration of creative covers & their ace designers](https://coverjunkie.com/) 


Links of The Week

424 - 28 June 2024 (graphic design, typography and coverjunkie)


Featured image: A Redditors visual view of the announcement of a new Google logo

## Links of the week ending 30 June 2023

[Figma offers new mode for developers, adds variables, prototyping features](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3700079/figma-offers-new-mode-for-developers-adds-variables-prototyping-features.html)

[CMA finds Adobe’s deal to acquire Figma could mean less choice for designers of digital apps, websites and other products.](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/design-software-deal-could-harm-uk-digital-economy)

[Apple releases official design kit with visionOS resources for Figma](https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/21/visionos-design-kit-figma/)

[What Developers Need to Know about Fonts and Typography](https://thenewstack.io/what-developers-need-to-know-about-fonts-and-typography/)

[Designing for a Global Audience: Tips for Multilingual UX Design](https://www.startupguys.net/tips-for-multilingual-ux-design/)

[User Experience (UX) Design Principles in frontend Development](https://business-review.eu/tech/it/user-experience-ux-design-principles-in-frontend-development-247160)

✨ and,

[Yes, there’s yet another new Google logo here to confuse you](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/find-my-device-google-logo)

372 - 30 June 2023 (google logo, figma, fonts and typography)


Featured image of the Dominoes Pizza logo ‘runied’ by Fabian Arbor

## Links of the week ending 20 January 2023

[Fabian Arbor - Ruiner of your favorite logos](https://twitter.com/fabianarbor)

[CMSWire’s Top 10 Customer Experience Articles of 2022](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/cmswires-top-10-customer-experience-articles-of-2022/)

[Boost Your Design System With These Features](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boost-your-design-system-features-vitaly-friedman)

[Ingenious Land Rover print ad drives the internet wild](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/land-rover-ad)

[Samsung One UI review: I much prefer default icon colors to palette-matching ones](https://www.sammobile.com/opinion/one-ui-i-much-prefer-default-icon-colors-to-palette-matching-ones/)

✨ and,

[DEA Trippy Patches - I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Trevor Paglen](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_dea_has_trippy_looking_patches)

349 - 20 January 2023 (logos, cx, ui and dea patches)


Featured image Illustration art from the Cel Mates Online Store

## Links of the week ending 16 December 2022

[If you’re a bootstrapped startup, turn to user-centered design to thrive during adversity](https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/if-youre-a-bootstrapped-startup-turn-to-user-centered-design-to-thrive-during-adversity/)

[How Elon’s Twitter takeover has disrupted the UX industry](https://linksoftheweek.co.uk/344-16-december-2022-illustration-ux-and-avatar/%5Bhttps://uxdesign.cc/how-elons-twitter-takeover-has-disrupted-the-ux-industry-b93ffc1cb16%5D(https://uxdesign.cc/how-elons-twitter-takeover-has-disrupted-the-ux-industry-b93ffc1cb16))

[Creating an effective design system with the DS Canvas](https://linksoftheweek.co.uk/344-16-december-2022-illustration-ux-and-avatar/%5Bhttps://uxdesign.cc/creating-an-effective-design-system-with-the-ds-canvas-f2f34895c419%5D(https://uxdesign.cc/creating-an-effective-design-system-with-the-ds-canvas-f2f34895c419))

[Coglode - The latest behavioural research distilled, applied and combined to make better strategic decisions](https://linksoftheweek.co.uk/344-16-december-2022-illustration-ux-and-avatar/%5Bhttps://www.coglode.com/cookbook%5D(https://www.coglode.com/cookbook))

[Avatar producers finally break silence over THAT logo](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/avatar-font-change)

✨ and,

[Cel Mates by Mcbess](https://opensea.io/collection/cel-mates-by-mcbess)


Links of the week ending 16 December 2022

344 - 16 December 2022 (illustration, ux and avatar)


Image credit: Netflix. Image of an early netflix logo

## Links of the week ending 2 September 2022

[The original Netflix logo was pretty wild](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/netflix-logo)

[Design lessons learned from people with dementia](https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/columns/marketplace-columns/finding-the-right-fit-design-lessons-learned-from-people-with-dementia/)

[Why the design thinking process is so important: a primer](https://www.fastcompany.com/90776176/design-thinking-process)

[How SEO & Graphic Design Can Become A Dream Team](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-seo-graphic-design-can-become-a-dream-team/459499/)

[The 6 rules of luxury logo design](https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2022/05/30/the-6-rules-luxury-logo-design)

✨ and,

[Hilarious mockup templates show what your designs really look like in the wild](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/fockups/)

Links of the week ending 2 September 2022

329 - 2 September 2022 (dementia, design thinking and fockups)


Image credit: Cadbury. Image of the Cadbury logo

## Links of the week ending 19 August 2022

[Cadbury now has a sonic logo – and it’s kinda perfect](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/cadbury-sonic-logo)

[How SEO & Graphic Design Can Become A Dream Team](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-seo-graphic-design-can-become-a-dream-team/459499/)

[Glyphy - Copy & paste glyphs with ease](https://www.glyphy.io/)

[Research templates covering usability, surveys, prototypes, branding and more](https://ballparkhq.com/templates)

[Developers have found a catalogue of basic UI blunders macOs Ventura](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/macos-ventura-ui)

✨ and,

[Another World - 1.44MB floppy disk code review](https://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/)


327 - 19 August 2022 (graphic design, blunders and another world)


Featured image celebrating Graphic Designer E McKnight Kauffer

## Links of the week ending 17 September 2021

[A new show celebrates the work of graphic design pioneer E McKnight Kauffer](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/e-mcknight-kauffer-designer-cooper-hewitt/)

[Squarespace product designer merges illustration and interaction design to create richer experiences](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/how-lionel-taurus-merges-illustration-and-interaction-design-to-create-richer-experiences/)

[How to develop a killer logo strategy](https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/logo-strategy-tips)

[5 psychology secrets for great interaction design](https://thenextweb.com/news/5-psychology-secrets-for-great-interaction-design)

✨ and,

[The best online poster maker in 2021](https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-guides/best-online-poster-maker)


Links of the week ending 17 September 2021

280 - 17 September 2021 (graphic design, illustration and logo strategy)


Featured image of the Rise of Long Form Generative Art via tylerxhobbs.com

## Links of the week ending 27 August 2021

[The Rise of Long Form Generative Art](https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2021/the-rise-of-long-form-generative-art)

[7 overused logo letterforms to let go of](https://dribbble.com/stories/2021/08/18/overused-logos)

[A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators](https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/focus-indicators/)

[Adding 100 underline overlay animations - The impressive CSS collection](https://dev.to/afif/adding-100-underline-overlay-animations-the-impressive-css-collection-1a93)

[The man preserving endangered colours](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210823-the-man-preserving-endangered-colours)

[Mazda trademarks a new logo (and fans spot an intriguing hidden message)](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/mazda-wankel-logo)

[Twitter users aren’t handling the changes particularly well](https://uxdesign.cc/why-do-people-hate-redesigns-64c2b009cc32)

✨ and,

[Netflix but for fake movies and tv shows that appear inside real movies and tv shows - Nestflix](https://nestflix.fun/)

277 - 27 August 2021 (generative art, focus indicators and animation)


Featured image of the Haçienda Landscapes book

## Links of the week ending 3 July 2021

[Haçienda Landscapes: Ben Kelly on his retrospective of the iconic Manchester nightclub](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/haienda-landscapes-ben-kelly-on-his-retrospective-of-the-iconic-manchester-nightclub/)

[OMG, SVG Favicons FTW!](https://austingil.com/svg-favicons/)

[Redesigning the illustration style at Shopify](https://ux.shopify.com/redesigning-the-illustration-style-at-shopify-a94dc893cd77)

[The Most Likely Machine is a free, interactive digital learning module designed to help pre-teens develop algorithmic literacy](https://designawards.core77.com/Interaction/105986/The-Most-Likely-Machine)

✨ and,

[The new YouTube Studio logo is really grinding users’ gears](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/youtube-studio-new-logo)

269 - 2 July 2021 (haçienda landscapes, design & illustration)


Image of tat\* – Inspirational Graphic Ephemera

## Links of the week ending 2 April 2021

[tat\* – Inspirational Graphic Ephemera](https://circa.press/books/design/tat-inspirational-graphic-ephemera/andy-altmann)

[Handling Text Over Images in CSS](https://ishadeed.com/article/handling-text-over-image-css)

[Toy stories: 100 years of American toy adverts – in pictures](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2021/mar/27/toy-stories-100-years-of-american-toy-adverts-in-pictures)

[Xiaomi’s new logo is pretty ridiculous (and so was the reveal)](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/new-Xiaomi-logo)

✨ and,

[5 graphic design trends to avoid in 2021](https://www.thedrum.com/profile/depositphotos/news/5-graphic-design-trends-to-avoid-in-2021)


256 - 2 April 2021 (graphic design and trends to avoid)


Featured image from How to Design for Web Accessibility

## Links of the week ending 16 October 2020

[Elementor Team Writes: How to Design for Web Accessibility — Key Principles & Tips](https://elementor.com/blog/web-accessibility-design-guide/)

[Web Layout Best Practices: 12 Timeless UI Patterns Analyzed](https://www.toptal.com/designers/ui/web-layout-best-practices)

[30 Impressive Logos Illustrating The Meaning Of Words By Playing With Negative Space](https://www.boredpanda.com/graphic-designer-illustrates-word-meanings-negative-space/)

[40 Best Fonts for Websites (Free and Paid)](https://elementor.com/blog/web-fonts/)

✨ and,

[Advanced Figma tips & tricks](https://uxplanet.org/advanced-figma-tips-tricks-d782ba2b2f5c)

232 - 16 October 2020 (accessibility, UI, patterns and logos)


Featured image of the PS5 logo

## Links of the week ending 10 January 2020

[A Designer’s Guide to the Terminal](https://react.design/terminal)

[Explore the world of logo design by visual similarity. Search 100,000+ logo marks to learn from the design decisions of existing brands.](https://www.aesthetic.com/)

[Generative Placeholders. Use generative art as your image placeholders.](https://generative-placeholders.glitch.me/)

[Sony’s lead graphic designer coming up with the PS5 logo](https://imgur.com/gallery/IEDpSkz)

[Why every website wants you to accept its cookies](https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cookies-website-tracking-gdpr-privacy)

✨ and,

[Infographic – What you need to know about TOR](https://dataprot.net/articles/tor-infographic/)

192 - 10 January 2020 (terminal, logo, similarity and ps5)


Image of famous logos designed Bauhaus style

## Links of the week ending 2 March 2019

[Famous logos designed Bauhaus style](https://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/contests/community-contest-reimagine-famous-logo-bauhaus-style-875553)

[Amino - A Live CSS Editor for Chrome](https://aminoeditor.com/)

[Lordess Foudre: internet artist](http://lordess.io/)

[Role-Swapped Space Invaders](https://codepen.io/jkantner/pen/OdKLxb)

[Shortcode Finder - Wordpress Development](https://www.billerickson.net/shortcode-finder)

✨ and,

[Absurd Illustrations that make sense. Created by human imagination, no AI detected.](https://absurd.design/)


146 - 2 March 2019 (bauhaus, codepen, absurd and illustration)


Featured image of colour strength

## Links of the week ending 1 June 2018

[Designer Challenges Himself To Create Logos With Hidden Meanings For A Year](https://designyoutrust.com/2018/05/designer-challenges-himself-to-create-logos-with-hidden-meanings-for-a-year)

[Screely instantly turns your screenshot or design into a beautiful image you can share anywhere.](https://www.screely.com/)

[Why You Should Never Use Pure Black for Text or Backgrounds](http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure-black-for-text-or-backgrounds)

[Longest Poem in the World is a continuous stream of real-time tweets that rhyme.](http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/)

[**Cool Backgrounds**](https://coolbackgrounds.io/) **is a collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images for blogs, social media, and websites**

✨ and,

[Japanese woman learned coding last year; she’s since created a popular app](https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html)

107 - 1 June 2018 (logo hidden meaning challenge and dark mode)


Featured image of the Braille Neue font

## Links of the week ending 20 April 2018

[Braille Nue - a typeface with Braille built in](http://brailleneue.com/)

[The (Basquiat style influenced) work of Eddie Love](https://www.instagram.com/forthouston/?hl=en)

[UI - Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design](https://medium.com/@mds/color-contrast-crash-course-for-interface-design-a69c987abe1b)

[Nine Inch Nails: Gave Up (1992) on YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpw1SwJRBI)

[Why you should use Google Font Superfamilies](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/low-hanging-design-fruit-why-you-should-use-google-font-superfamilies-1dae04b2fc50)

✨ and,

[American Express is showing off a new logo. Can you tell?](https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/american-express-logo)

101 - 20 April 2018 (braille, typeface and american express logo)


Feature image of comic book art

## Links of the week ending 23 February 2018

[Steve Seeley Artist, comic writer and toy nerd based in Chicago](https://www.instagram.com/steveseeleyart/)

[Really smart Animated SVG Avatar!](https://codepen.io/dsenneff/pen/QajVxO)

[5 examples of web animation done right](https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/web-animation-ux/)

[Stunning hover effects with CSS variables.](https://blog.prototypr.io/stunning-hover-effects-with-css-variables-f855e7b95330)

[Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal](https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results)

[Logos are overrated (YouTube)](https://youtu.be/GqZwfA64h1A)

✨ and,

[Don’t Compete. Create!](https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-compete-create-3091f41870b5)


Links of the week ending 23 February 2018

93 - 23 February 2018 (comic writer and logos)


Featured image of Pop-Up Fires

## Links of the week ending 1 September 2017

[Pop-Up Fires by Axel Morin](https://vimeo.com/axelmorin)

[YouTube has a new look and, for the first time, a new logo](https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/8/29/16216868/new-youtube-logo-redesign-font-color-app-design)

[A story about anxiety; you don’t need to know everything about UX](https://uxdesign.cc/you-dont-need-to-know-everything-about-ux-9b7abd686ef0)

[Xeno Pooch : Remembering The Time Alien 3 Tried To Use A REAL Dog In A Suit!](https://halloweenlove.com/xeno-pooch-remembering-the-time-alien-3-tried-to-use-a-real-dog-in-a-suit/)

[Audi Campaign Illustrates How Using Your Phone Warps Your Perception Of The Road](https://designyoutrust.com/2017/08/audi-campaign-illustrates-how-using-your-phone-warps-your-perception-of-the-road/)

✨ and,

[12 extensions that will make any UX Designer’s life easier](https://uxdesign.cc/12-extensions-that-will-make-any-ux-designers-life-easier-87035ea1ebc7)