This week on Source Material: enter the mind of Brent David Freaney — art director & founder of Special Offer. 00:00 Intro 00:36 Interaction of Color (Josef Albers, 1963) 01:19 A Dictionary of Color Combinations (Sanzo Wada, 2010) 01:54 Death of the Finished State (Brent David Freaney, Figma Config 2026) 02:20 Boarding Pass (Emirates, 2025) 03:41 M2 (Takashi Homma, 2011) 04:49 Room Service Menu (Century Hyatt Tokyo, 1980s) 05:59 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte, 1983) 06:58 The Oppression and Liberation: Or: Homophobia: Its Causes and Cure (Gay Theory Work Group, 1977) 08:12 Is Love Enough? (Bruce Weber, 2005)

A few updates: → Folders now preview what files are inside → Folder colors are more distinct → Folders can now be duplicated → Folders (just wanted to say Folders again)

been playing with shaders in @figma and finally put a few up in community. the blob mask one is so fun to just sit and watch. komorebi is probably my favourite though, it’s pretty generic, so it works really well as a background. some are still in approval, but would love if you tried them!

This week on Source Material: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman), MIT Professor, computational artist and creative coder. 00:00 Intro 00:17 Maeda @ Media — John Maeda, 2000 01:25 The Visual Diaries 1973–1982 — Lance Wyman, 2017 02:09 Design by Numbers — John Maeda, 1999 03:01 Making Things — Issey Miyake, 1999 03:45 An Arbitrary Point P — Masahiko Sato & Euphrates, 2007 04:14 Midnight Animations — Masahiko Sato & Euphrates, 2007 04:53 Visual Music — Kerry Brougher, Jeremy Strick, Ari Wiseman & Judith Zilczer, 2005 05:24 Drawing is Thinking — Milton Glaser & Judith Thurman, 2008 05:49 Arm in Arm — Remy Charlip, 1969 06:22 Siteless: 1001 Building Forms — François Blanciak, 2008 06:51 Cool Tools: A Catalogue OF Possibilities — Kevin Kelly, 2013 07:19 Conditional Design Workbook — Laura Maurer, Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters & Edo Paulus, 2013 08:03 Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design — Ellen Lupton & Abbott Miller, 1996 09:45 Figma Config 2026 — Zach Lieberman, Ten Years of Daily Sketching 09:59 Outro

This week’s episode of Source Material spotlights @meshtimes_ — where one of the internet’s favorite creative technologists shares how her world of code, creativity, and playfulness all collide. 00:00 Intro
 00:09 Vanity Washable Makeup Kit
 01:21 Cyberfeminism Index (Mindy Seu, 2023)
 02:00 Pinto Lunch Box
 02:43 Tree of Codes (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010)
 03:10 Custom Makeup Cyberdeck
 04:40 How to Wrap 5 Eggs (Hideyuki Oka, 1967)
 05:17 Pencil Case
 05:45 The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch, 2008)
 06:35 Tear-off Calendar 07:07 Outro

Introducing Source Material — the weekly series where the designers & creatives shaping culture share the references that shaped them. Our first guest is Thom Bettridge: Editor-in-Chief of @i_D and founder of Content World. 00:00 - Introducing Source Material 00:08 Joe's Magazine (First Issue) 00:49 Colors: A Book about a Magazine About the Rest of the World 01:27 Balenciaga Archetype magazine 02:00 032c 33 (Frank Ocean Cover) 02:28 All-In Nº9 03:32 Highstyle (Migos Cover) 04:23 i-D 374 (“The Unknown Issue” Enza Khoury Cover) 05:42 i-D 375 (“The Beta Issue” Born In 2025 Cover) 06:50 Outro