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What happens when design inspiration comes from everything (and nothing) all at once? This week on Source Material, we get inside the mind of art director and SPECIAL OFFER, Inc. founder Brent David Freaney — and the references that shaped how he sees. His list is proof that taste doesn't care about category: → Interaction of Colors — Josef Albers, 1963 → A Dictionary of Color Combinations — Sanzo Wada, 2010 → Boarding Pass — Emirates, 2025 → M2 — Takashi Homma, 2011 → Room Service Menu — Century Hyatt Tokyo, 1980s → The Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte, 1983 → The Oppression and Liberation: Or: Homophobia: Its Causes and Cure — Gay Theory Work Group, 1977 → Is Love Enough? — Bruce Weber, 2005 Watch the full episode → https://lnkd.in/gN7canpc

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Release Notes, EP-008 → https://lnkd.in/g47_N7TS → New releases → Live feature demos → Community spotlight

 SEPT 30, 9AM PT | 12PM ET

We partnered with Handshake AI Skills Studio to launch 4 missions so you can learn how to: → Design and animate your own icon set with Motion → Build a looping animation with agent → Illustrate a sticker pack using Weave → Turn a mood board into app mockups in Make Try it out → https://lnkd.in/gfyQ2RBX

Shader Town wasn't built in a day

Introducing Figma node: connect any Figma frame into Weave workflows so you can → Create on-brand content at scale → Iterate, translate, or turn your designs into video → Edit and all connected assets stays up to date Available now to everyone → https://lnkd.in/g6HD2yKA

Updated iOS and iPadOS 27 UI Kit, now with Duo → https://bit.ly/4y1xu4Y

→ Reimagine images in different materials → Turn a text prompt into a concept sketch → Extend an image to any format Try Figma Weave tools directly on the canvas, then publish your own in Community → https://lnkd.in/epKtpHe9

Your Config India agenda is here, time to register for virtual → https://lnkd.in/gvnup_PF A glance at your speakers: → Masaba Gupta → Soren Iverson → daisuke sakai → Parinishtha Yadav and more

This week on Source Material: Aitana Picó — graphic designer, global visual artist and creative technologist. Subscribe and never miss an episode → https://lnkd.in/gGqwVwiQ