design-masters SKILL.md skillA
design-masters from hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code/design-masters@git:20260930.6d21b5dPins git:20260930.6d21b5d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code
- Path
skills/design-masters/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260930.62e5f6a, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 6, 2025
- Size
- 9,732 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Working profiles of Saul Bass, Massimo Vignelli, Dieter Rams, Paula Scher, Josef Müller-Brockmann, David Carson, and Paul Rand: key works, principles, and how to apply each in UI work. Use when a design needs a proven approach, a named reference to follow, or a lesson from a specific master.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Design Masters Standing on the shoulders of giants. These designers didn't just create beautiful work—they articulated principles that remain relevant decades later. ## When to Use This Skill - Seeking design inspiration with depth - Understanding the reasoning behind classic design - Applying proven approaches to modern problems - Teaching through historical example - Finding appropriate references for a design direction ## The Pantheon ### Saul Bass (1920-1996) **Domain**: Film titles, corporate identity, posters **Philosophy**: "Design is thinking made visual" #### Signature Techniques 1. **Geometric Reduction**: Complex ideas → simple shapes 2. **Symbolic Metaphor**: Literal → abstract representation 3. **Motion in Stillness**: Static images implying movement 4. **Negative Space**: What's left out tells the story 5. **Limited Palette**: Powerful constraint #### Essential Works - **Man with the Golden Arm** (1955): First film title as design - **Vertigo** (1958): Spiral as psychological symbol - **AT&T Logo** (1984): Globe lines suggesting connection - **Minolta Logo** (1981): Stylized 'm' as horizon #### Apply His Lesson …
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How to install
mdr add hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code/design-masters@sha256:79040d4fb620cb03The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.6d21b5d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Dec 6, 2025 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 99 days.
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| git:20260930.62e5f6a latest | 2026-09-30 | 62e5f6a | 9,732 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.6d21b5d | 2026-09-30 | 6d21b5d | 10,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.8810039 | 2026-09-30 | 8810039 | 10,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251206.14962b6 | 2025-12-06 | 14962b6 | 9,707 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9732 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vwiyrm3mvglh53cn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code/design-masters GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/79040d4fb620cb031bde90165f05df93c7b39f7c6497e937d9e9e34536347e7b
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