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Happy Friday!
Welcome back to TWID — the only design newsletter on the internet written by the team at Off Menu.
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Now, let’s get into what happened this week in design.
— Hunter
Brick by brick… LEGO and Nike ink multiyear partnership
Nike must’ve gotten sick and tired of stepping on their little siblings LEGOs as they join forces to create "a series of co-branded products, content, and experiences".
“The partnership officially kicks off in 2025 and will include series of co-branded products, content and experiences that combine the imaginative power of LEGO bricks with the “Just Do It” spirit of Nike to invite all kids into play and sport” says Alero Akuya, VP of Global Brand at LEGO.
With this press release leaves much to the imagination, design twitter got to work.
I had some fun creating visuals between the Nike and Lego collaboration announced last week 💫 👟
— Guillaume. (@gberthonneau)
9:46 AM • Aug 27, 2024
WORLD'S FIRST LOOK: LEGO x NIKE👀👀👀
(This is a joke)
— Complex Sneakers (@ComplexSneakers)
9:19 PM • Aug 23, 2024
No more playing around…
Playground founder announces a huge revamp that allows anyone to “design anything like a pro”.
Logos, posters, shirts, stickers, you name it.
Hopefully this will put an end to people using Figma like this…
Playground includes a template library so that you are always starting with a great image and avoiding blank canvas paralysis.
Want something changed? Just talk to the app like a graphic designer, says Suhail.
What else happened this week in design?
Midjourney says that they are officially getting into hardware. Any guesses as to what they’re up to?
We're officially getting into hardware. If you're interested in joining the new team in San Francisco please email us at [email protected]
— Midjourney (@midjourney)
4:57 PM • Aug 28, 2024
Apple reveals “Clean Up”, an AI tool for their Photos app that allows users to remove unwanted objects or people from your photos.
I’ll miss browsing the random Facebook groups that all but guaranteed chaos with people’s photoshop requests to do this for them.
The new “Clean Up” feature in iOS 18.1 is amazing!
You can now remove people/objects in the background using Apple Intelligence
— Apple Hub (@theapplehub)
6:01 PM • Aug 28, 2024
sigh… another AI wearable. Someone get MKBHD on the line.
Resources
✨ Stippling is a Figma plugin that allows you to quickly generate halftone or stippling dots from any selected image or frame
👾 Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe
🧑🎨 Lummi adds free illustrations and royalty free doodles
📐 Aspect Ratio is a Figma plugin that lets you quickly resize frames to fit both popular and custom aspect ratios
Design Dopamine
Great song. Even better design.
On repeat today 💿
— Arkady (@sovpal)
9:17 PM • Aug 27, 2024
Email? Peaceful? Good luck.
is it possible to make email a peaceful place?
— Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 (@Wattenberger)
3:34 PM • Aug 28, 2024
What’s the opposite of dopamine? This should be illegal…
I feel like it’s not an exaggeration to say this is one of the most shocking product changes in the history of food & beverage.
— Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe)
1:56 AM • Aug 29, 2024
Design Roulette
We doomscroll the internet so that you don’t have to. Here are the websites that we loved this week.
Until next week…
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— Hunter