April 15, 2020
Window art
With shelter in place still going on, some artists are encouraging people to express their creativity through their windows at home including Spanish street artist Pejac, who is known for his clever use of silhouettes and negative space.
People have drawn really great stuff on their window using their imaginations. Here’s some examples of what others did, and if you wonder, this article includes easy tutorial for you.
Jay Jung, Product Visual Designer Healthline
Giant Animal
An artist named Vadim Solovyov has created surreal composites of gigantic animals on the street of Russia. The way it’s composited reminded me of recent news of wild animals showing up on an empty streets, or wild lives coming back to national parks. His strong visual may have some message that we all should think about.
Overly descriptive color palette
Naming colors is hard, when we rebranded it took us several day to decide what to call our new cyan color. This overly descriptive color palette found fun and non-helpful adjectives to attached to you color to make them standing out. From “uninviting grayish green” to “cabbalistical light salmon” this is gonna make your next color palette presentation way more exciting.
Mélanie Yèche, Product Designer, Healthline
Designing button
Button are part of almost every design, this article from UX planet goes back to the basics and covers all the good practices that you should keep in mind when designing them. Accessibility, size, differentiation etc… This is a quick read and a good refresher of button design.
Mélanie Yèche, Product Designer, Healthline
Shelter in place art challenge
The Getty Museum should give a raise to whoever is running their twitter account because this blew up. With shelter in place still happening, Getty asked its followers to recreate famous art pieces with everyday objects. Obviously some are better than others, but I’m loving the commitment and the creativity.
Mandi Wolters, Senior Product Designer Healthline
Science fiction cardboard robots with crazy detail
These cardboard robots created by Greg Olijnk are insanely intricate, and because of their poses have the feeling of movement even though they are still. They are actually functional (with bendable limbs, spinning wheels, and glowing LED lights) and very peaceful to look at. Seeing these sculptures definitely inspires me to make something!
Sarah Johnson, Product Design Manager, Healthline
