Mangos. Manuals. Media.: librarians, heroes of the apocalypse.
Science Fiction Movie Lettering: “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like Pie
Examples of Good and Bad UX in Improvised Signage in Movie Theaters: answering is there an end or mid-credit scene?
Blackboard Bold: “a style of writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes” /via SC 2.4.4
Haunted Words, Part 4
A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Newspapers: “Most towns still have a local newspaper, but they don’t cover their communities any more.” Ghost Forests: “The haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have died along the shore. These arboreal graveyards are showing up in places where the land slopes gently into the ocean and where salty water increasingly encroaches.
This week I:
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Crawled the unhinged, but enjoyable Things you might find in a dungeon are.na board.
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Watched Why everyone is quitting social media … on a social media platform, with an ad in the middle, but it still rings true.
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Enjoyed the Geronimo Stilton style caption creator and the interactive eye-following card.
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Really dug J. Marshall Smith’s art. Especially these two.
I am currently:
Really into this mural painted by Ariel Lee.
Listening to Rain Country by John Swanke.
Coveting these pocket notebooks from Big I Design.
Liking these “humble phantoms” carved from wood.
Nodding along to this definition of the night feeling h/t Jack Cheng.
Glass Window by Brett Allen Johnson
grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”
“What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one.”
