designTuesday, July 7, 2026

Design books, accessibility, and brand work

Today's design coverage is book-heavy: two excerpts from A Book Apart titles land on A List Apart, tackling sustainability and safety. Elsewhere, a practical accessibility guide from the BBC and a handful of brand and packaging projects round out the day. The through-line is designers thinking beyond the screen, into ethics, materials, and cross-medium exploration.

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Books and ethics

Two new excerpts from A Book Apart tackle big-picture responsibilities: climate and user safety.

#01alistapart.comJul 7

Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

Tom Greenwood uses the four-minute mile as a metaphor for sustainable web design, arguing that the carbon footprint of digital products is solvable with the right tracking and approach.

by by Tom Greenwood14 min readRead original

#02alistapart.comJul 7

Design for Safety, An Excerpt

Eva PenzeyMoog's excerpt offers a strategic action plan for designing tech that can't be weaponized by abusers, a rare practical guide on safety in product design.

by by Eva PenzeyMoog16 min readRead original

Accessibility in practice

The BBC publishes a no-nonsense guide for testing with assistive technology, aimed at teams.

#03bbc.github.ioJul 7

Testing with assistive technology - Accessibility, Your Team and You

A concise team reference from the BBC on testing with assistive technology, covering what, when, and how to test, with a focus on mobile (TalkBack on Android/Chrome).

Brands and materials

A handful of projects show designers thinking about materiality, from packaging to risograph prints.

#04www.creativeboom.comJul 7

Otherway brings Cowshed back to its Somerset roots with wild botanical illustrations

Otherway rebrands Cowshed with wild botanical illustrations, pulling the brand back to its Somerset roots to differentiate from competitors like Aesop and Byredo.

#05l.euronews.comJul 7

The Dean Munich marks Irish hotel brand’s second opening in Germany

The Dean Munich opens as the Irish brand's second German hotel, blending Bavarian Jugendstil with 1980s Munich culture in interiors by Tatjana von Stein.