Design Daily #104

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Design Inspiration & Novel Things — May 18, 2026

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🏆 Awwwards Winners

Immersive brand experience for Rabanne's men's fragrance with dark aesthetic and dynamic visuals.

Minimal Nordic design portfolio with refined typography and smooth animations.

Art brand website with a unique visual language blending contemporary art and digital culture.

A creative game website themed around finding parking spaces.

Powerful social impact website highlighting the dangers of gambling.

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html.to.design — New Chrome extension: capture webpages, paste into Figma
theSVG — 6,030+ open-source brand SVG icons (npm, React, Vue, Svelte)
Defense against dishonest charts — Interactive guide to spotting misleading data viz
How optimization reshaped art, aesthetics and us — What gets lost when frictionlessness colonizes daily life
A catechism for robots — Why autonomous systems need core moral values

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Krea 2, LobeHub, AnyFrame, Shadow, ReactVision Studio, Draft, Polarity, Agentspan 🔗 View on Product Hunt

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Qwen 3.7 released — Major upgrade in reasoning and code understanding
4B param coding agent achieves 87% — Small model, big results
Lance by ByteDance — 3B Apache2 model for image/video understanding and generation
Boston Dynamics Atlas carries a fridge — Robot practicality steps up
Elon Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit — Landmark legal case dismissed after 3-week trial
Figure AI: Human intern vs robot mail sorting — 10-hour shift comparison
Dario Amodei: AI will cause high GDP + high unemployment — Unprecedented economic mix

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🔥 Rabanne Invictus Elixir — Awwwards SOTD, immersive brand experience

🔥 Qwen 3.7 released — Significant reasoning and coding improvements

🔥 Elon Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit — Landmark AI legal case

🔥 Atlas carries a fridge — Robot practicality advances further

✦ That's it for today's Design Daily. See you tomorrow!

Updated: 2026-05-19 09:00 CST

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