Basement Files 31

Visual Inspiration


Product Inspiration

Brick - Your Phone, Minus the Distractions
Transform your digital life with our innovative device that helps you create a healthier balance between your online and offline worlds. Eliminate distractions, boost productivity, and enhance mindfulness with Brick’s simple, effective approach to mindful phone usage.

It's fascinating how strong and consistent the urge to escape our phone is. It feels like we are trapped. Wrestling with a power that frequently overwhelms us. Constantly searching for relief from the struggle. 😮‍💨

Here is a device, that literally turns your phone into a brick. 🧱

Maybe people will buy it and maybe they won't.

The fact it exists tells us a lot about where we are in 2023.


Human Inspiration

Anthony Hobday

No one writes more eloquently on interface design than Anthony Hobday.

Rules all the way down

This is a fantastic podcast where Anthony talks about layout, colour, typography, the rules of design and how to improve as a designer.

-- In writing this I discovered Anthony has his own podcast, I can only imagine that will be a treat and will enjoy it this coming week.