9 Designs that Inspired BRAT's Art Director, Brent David Freaney I Source Material
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Introducing Source Material — Figma's weekly series where the designers & creatives shaping culture share the references that shaped them. A look past the finished work and into the objects, books, ideas and oddities that actually inform how they think.
Our next guest is Brent David Freaney! The designer and founder of Special Offer, most known for designing the creative system behind Charli XCX’s BRAT & Madonna’s Confessions II, takes us through his world of color theory, photography, graphic systems and found ephemera. From Josef Albers’ INTERACTION OF COLOR and Edward Tufte’s THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION to a Century Hyatt Tokyo room-service menu and an Emirates boarding pass - Brent highlights an eclectic mix of references behind a practice spanning music, fashion and art.
Brent David Freaney’s Source Material:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Interaction of Color (Josef Albers, 1963)
1:19 A Dictionary of Color Combinations (Sanzo Wada, 2010)
1:54 Death of the Finished State (Brent David Freaney, Figma Config 2026)
2:20 Boarding Pass (Emirates, 2025)
3:41 M2 (Takashi Homma, 2011)
4:49 Room Service Menu (Century Hyatt Tokyo, 1980s)
5:59 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte, 1983)
6:58 The Oppression and Liberation: Or: Homophobia: Its Causes and Cure (Gay Theory Work Group, 1977)
8:12 Is Love Enough? (Bruce Weber, 2005)
09:49 Credits & References
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9 Designs that Inspired BRAT's Art Director, Brent David Freaney I Source Material
Figma
168,647 views
Introducing Source Material — Figma's weekly series where the designers & creatives shaping culture share the references that shaped them. A look past the finished work and into the objects, books, ideas and oddities that actually inform how they think.
Our next guest is Brent David Freaney! The designer and founder of Special Offer, most known for designing the creative system behind Charli XCX’s BRAT & Madonna’s Confessions II, takes us through his world of color theory, photography, graphic systems and found ephemera. From Josef Albers’ INTERACTION OF COLOR and Edward Tufte’s THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION to a Century Hyatt Tokyo room-service menu and an Emirates boarding pass - Brent highlights an eclectic mix of references behind a practice spanning music, fashion and art.
Brent David Freaney’s Source Material:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Interaction of Color (Josef Albers, 1963)
1:19 A Dictionary of Color Combinations (Sanzo Wada, 2010)
1:54 Death of the Finished State (Brent David Freaney, Figma Config 2026)
2:20 Boarding Pass (Emirates, 2025)
3:41 M2 (Takashi Homma, 2011)
4:49 Room Service Menu (Century Hyatt Tokyo, 1980s)
5:59 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte, 1983)
6:58 The Oppression and Liberation: Or: Homophobia: Its Causes and Cure (Gay Theory Work Group, 1977)
8:12 Is Love Enough? (Bruce Weber, 2005)
09:49 Credits & References
____________________________________________________
Find us on ⬇️
X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/figma
Instagram: Instagram: figma
LinkedIn: LinkedIn: figma
TikTok: TikTok: figma
Figma forum: https://forum.figma.com/