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Design Briefs

Have a news item you’d like to share? Have you read a good book or blog lately? Would you like to see your work featured in Designer? How about an office or department profile? Your contributions and feedback are welcome. Let us know what you think. info@ucda.com

Design with colors you love

Khroma uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you to discover, search, and save. By choosing a set of colors, you’ll train a neural network powered algorithm to generate colors you like and block ones you don’t, right in your browser.

Create an unlimited library of your favorite combos to reference later. Get color names, hexcodes, RGB values, CSS code, and WCAG accessibility rating of each pair.

www.khroma.co


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unDraw—open source illustrations

Describing itself as “open-source illustration for any idea you can imagine and create,” unDraw is a constantly updated design project by Katerina Limpitsouni featuring beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution. We particularly love the ability to quickly add your own hex code to tailor the illustrations to your own projects.

undraw.co


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Retrospekt: reviving retro tech for a new generation

The mission at Retrospekt is to provide a product with years of history that works like it was made yesterday.

The folks there are passionate people, addicted to the experience of vintage electronics. Something about the twisting knobs, whirring gears, mechanical buttons, perfectly imperfect film grain, and warm analog sounds. In an increasingly digital world, the magic of analog is increasingly enchanting. It’s comforting. Comforting to take a break from the excess of consumption convenience has allowed. Comforting to step back and engage in a more tactile and deliberate experience. Their products, that still prove to be so useful and enjoyable, shouldn’t be haphazardly discarded. Left to decay (or never decay, because plastic) in some landfill. They give them a new life. Faithfully restoring each item to give you a product that performs like it was meant to right out of the box. A true experience that refuses to be pushed out by the whims of the latest technological trend.

And it’s not just Polaroids or photography; products include music, VHS, gaming, books, and more!

retrospekt.com


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