Tag: design
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I’ve been working a bit more on mdtosendy, my Ruby script for converting Markdown to email-ready HTML, and recently added a multi-template system that makes it much more flexible for managing different email designs. To read more about the inspiration and initial development of mdtosendy, see the blog post I wrote a couple of days…
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A few times over the last couple of years I’ve wanted to do an open poll to get a feel for how users felt about things, particularly icons during the design process. I found there aren’t a lot of affordable ways to do this. What I wanted was a way to upload multiple images and…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 iOS licenses ($29.99 value each) for Amadine. Whether you’re a creative professional or an amateur with big ideas, Amadine is a vector design tool that can help you get there, no matter how big the goal. This is a really powerful design app that I surprisingly hadn’t…
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Happy New Year! I managed to get the bulk of the Best of 2024 series out before the midnight deadline. Nice job, Brett. But here are a few late additions that I missed, and ones I’m looking forward to using more of in 2025. DEVONthink Pro OK, this one snuck up on me. I’ve been…
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I did a redesign of this site last night. I hope you like it. It’s heavily inspired by the iA blog. Shamelessly inspired, I guess. But it was a fun exercise to revamp the Jekyll setup, which took a ton of work. I do not love templating in Liquid, but I do like writing filters…
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I had let the original TeeSpring stores I had set up languish, and TeeSpring changed a bunch of stuff that made all of my listings invalid. So I’ve relaunched the storefronts with the original designs, plus some new ones. The Lab has some new logo designs, plus the “classic” ones. Not to be vain, but…
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I’ve started creating Dimspirations again, my depressing-but-actually-realistic collection of “inspirational” posters. You can follow the hashtag #dimspirations on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, or Instagram for new posts. I’ve also automated the process of creating wallpaper-formatted version of them which get uploaded to Flickr and are also available as a zip (containing 5120×3200 and 2048×1366 versions). I…