Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

All the details about ‘Coding Independent Code Points (CICP) for color space identification’

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

I don’t agree with this quote, as someone who uses code as a design tool, but … > But readable type, intuitive navigation, and smart color choices start in design, not in code. Developers build the product, but we set the foundation. It’s time to own that responsibility. … but I really like the website and I think it is a great idea for a book.

Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.

The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well. > Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation. I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.

Mooie kritische benadering van een krankzinnige status quo. Wegen moeten weg!

A talk I have about my clocks

Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.

Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.

A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make *(hone)* their own tools. Some quotes: > It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities. > Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools. > After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers. > Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom