Design inspiration from the desk of @makingculture
Design inspiration from the desk of @makingculture aka @beckycory! #pinksheepmedia #illustration #yyjdesign
Design
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.
Martin Speckter, type design, and the interrobang
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…
Display experiments of all the beatiful merch that @makingculture has been creating
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
Bridge #ux #tech #drawbridge
A draw bridge has an interesting user experience. Both while on it, and waiting for it.
Free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons
Thanks @oliveridley for the free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons! They are… berry good. #saskatoons
Some thoughts on microblogging with self-hosted WordPress
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…
Fixing the HTTPS on a Knight Lab TimelineJS instance
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…
Who is your graphic designer?
GDC makes nice designs.
UX failure of the Save-On-Foods receipt
The Save-On-Foods grocery receipt has 50 bits on information, but not the information I was looking for which is incredible…
“Today in Three Panels” by Dean Mang-Wooley
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…
Art and the politics machine: Imagine Our Parks
In which Sherwin reflects on how artists allow us to question what is politics, what is shared space, and what is community…
Holy hell, Batman; I’ve been wrong
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 …
Port Renfrew camping
Friends, and camping, are good for me.
Victoria airport art
These giant metal flowers remind me of public art at the University of Calgary campus…
Banana slug near Botanical Beach
The west coast has mega slugs…
On the coast
Coastal trees are boss
About journalism
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 art. Floating.
Giant wood eggs float in the air at the Vancouver Centre. They’re an interesting example of quasi-public art.
Own everything.
Public art is good.
Sand dollar in Parksville, by Gilda Shannon
Photo by Gilda.
Design a better calendar: new zero year needed
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…
A problem for Google: National Post
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…