#1. SF Symbols 4
For the designer in your life, here's Apple's free to download collection of over 4,000 symbols for everyday life. Meant to fit seamlessly into 'San Francisco' the system font on Apple computers.
#2. Babyxxan's Porcelain Pool // Skylab Radio
Two parter for you. First of all if you're not listening to online radio you're truly missing out. Skylab is a 24 hour radio out of Melbourne, Australia. Babyxxan is a non-binary DJ/field recorder/journalist from Australia. The Porcelain Pool series is a 25 part (as of May2023) mix of songs meant to be listened to in the bathtub or generally to relax.
#3. Brr.fyi
Brr is a blog about the McMurdo Station in Antarctica about 2,000 miles south of New Zealand. The blog focuses on weird elements of design/architecture of the Arctic bases and things that happen to them.
#4. Sugoi JDM
JDM is an online store focusing on the Japanese Domestic Market world of cars and the things you wear while fiixng them/ racing them. Here is the best collection of jackets / hats/ Nippon baseball jerseys/ pit crew jumpers/ bomber jackets all straight from the source.
The book Céramiques de la Lys was a collection of tile examples printed in the 1940's. The website Present and Correct scanned one and uploaded the photos for your viewing pleasure. RIYL: Patterns, geometrics, color palettes.
Katsu is a legendary graffiti artist who runs an app called 'FatTagKatsu' which allows you to tag on your phone and upload it to the online blackbook to see other people's handstyles.
AI is the hot trend and while you may be paying the most or the least attention to it, there's some things that are undeniably useful. Take the scum of the earth photo resell websites such as Alamy and Shutterstock, now you can one click upload and remove the annoying watermarks.
A collection aimed at highlighting the Arabic world's skillful use of design dating back as far as records go.
#9. Riffusion AI
A quick made AI beat created in any genres you can prompt the machine to make. Perfect for the reel/tiktok people.
#10 Solar Color Dust
Here's an untested but very interesting dye process called Hue Chromatic, a textile dye that changes colors in direct UV/ sunlight.
