Design inspiration from the desk of @makingculture
Design inspiration from the desk of @makingculture aka @beckycory! #pinksheepmedia #illustration #yyjdesign
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I do graphic design and communications work professionally. You can find my portfolio over at Pink Sheep Media. Here’s a few articles on design.
Design inspiration from the desk of @makingculture aka @beckycory! #pinksheepmedia #illustration #yyjdesign
99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early Greek and Roman writing didn’t have spaces! Rack that up to stuff I took for granted. Apparently an ad man in the sixties developed the interrobang…
Our living room is full of display experiments of all the beatiful merch that @makingculture has been creating! Maybe we’ll see you tomorrow at The Q! Market at the Juan de Fuca library (noon to four). #makerculture
A draw bridge has an interesting user experience. Both while on it, and waiting for it.
Thanks @oliveridley for the free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons! They are… berry good. #saskatoons
So I’ve been experimenting with microblogging on Mastadon, micro.blog and Tumblr. I decided it’s time we have our own self-hosted WordPress microblog…
Last year I used TimelineJS to create a nice interactive timeline of some misogynist tweets by Colby Cosh. After we added HTTPS to our website, the article never properly encrypted…
GDC makes nice designs.
The Save-On-Foods grocery receipt has 50 bits on information, but not the information I was looking for which is incredible…
In which I talk to Dean, an illustrator, and the creator of Today in Three Panels, and we discuss the thin membrane between private and public moments…
In which Sherwin reflects on how artists allow us to question what is politics, what is shared space, and what is community…
There are known-knowns. And then there’s all the fucked up arbitrary shit we believe, and impose on others, for no really good reason, like for example the use of quotation marks …
Friends, and camping, are good for me.
These giant metal flowers remind me of public art at the University of Calgary campus…
The west coast has mega slugs…
Coastal trees are boss
I do think that journalism can be an important contributor to a healthy democracy. But it’s not clear to me that journalism always has been, or is currently. Maybe it is. But how would we know?
Giant wood eggs float in the air at the Vancouver Centre. They’re an interesting example of quasi-public art.
Public art is good.
Photo by Gilda.
It’s two thousand years since the birth of Christ; the zero year. I think it’s time to free ourselves from the Christian calendar…
I was surprised to learn recently that an important paper that forms the basis of the intellectual underpinnings of the austerity movement is wrong. But more importantly, I discovered that Google needs to do a better job indexing webpages…