Monthly inspiration
March 2023
The monthly inspiration brought to you by Common Ground, digital design studio in Stockholm. From AI to Dante’s hell, we give you ten things that caught our interest in March.
Self-Help for Societies
The brilliant Tim Urban, creator of Wait but why, has done it again. This comic style book is a toolbox for understanding societies, groups and our own minds. Highly entertaining and useful.
What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book For Societies
Enlighten yourself
The Twitter account The Cultural Tutor is a true treasure. Long, deep diving tweets into art, architecture & history from Dante, Venice to movie posters. A beautiful place to get lost.
culturaltutor
Design podcast
Our dear friend Jaan Orvet and Jesper Bylund gives you small design snacks (7-15 minutes) on new design related topics every month. It’s a bliss to step in to the room with these two humble creative master minds.
https://designer.fm/
Design systems x AI
Are design systems the low hanging fruit for AI in the design space? Brad Frost shares some solid thinking on the subject.
Design systems in the time of AI
Framer is happening
There’s some interesting things happening with Framer for us designers with an easy workflow to create sites without coding, plus a thriving community of creatives where you can tap into some great components for your next site.
Ridd 🏛 on Twitter
Microsoft Designer?!
Never thought the words Microsoft and designer would sit by side but it does look like they made an effort to reach the Canva target group with something simple and useful for non-designers needing, yes, design.
Microsoft Designer - Stunning designs in a flash
GPT-4 Week One
Yes, it’s everywhere. This Reddit did a good summary of the biggest week (so far) in AI history.
GPT-4 Week One. The biggest week in AI history. Here's whats happening
Midjourney bonanza
Nick St. Pierre is your man if you want to get your hands dirty in Midjourney. Lots of good examples and interesting experiments to pick up and try out yourself. Sayonara stock images.
nickfloats
ChatGPT explained
Want to go all in on AI. This actually made us understand what ChatGPT does a tiny bit more. It’s a long, long read, and sometimes heavy on mathematics, but worth an effort.
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Colors, colors, colors
Never waste Hours on finding the perfect color palette again.
ColorSpace - Color Palettes Generator and Color Gradient Tool
That’s all for March’s inspiration!
/ The Common Ground Team
