The Indie Web
Another week of quarantine, and I have to say, I am missing the weird oddities of office life. The fridge cleanings, the coffee machine, but most importantly the people.
That said, Kids Creative Agency has risen to the occasion, with this super simple, yet elegant site, aptly named I miss the office .
More office vibes pleaseWhen you’re getting into development, one of the trickier things is getting used to the command line. Learning git, and git commands are often one of the first steps in Bootcamps, and for anyone who is coming into coding from a design or creative background, suddenly working in the brutally simple terminal can come as a big surprise.
This wonderful website, dash dash, takes all of the manual pages of different command-line tools and pulls all of that documentation into a clean concise website.
What went into it?Has anyone ever stopped you on the street to show you their vim setup? Well, now you have the perfect reply with vim cubed.
Vim Cubed will bring your code editing into the 3rd dimension, literally in the form of a spinning cube. As the cube spins infinitely, your editor works with all the gusto and power that vim can provide.
Any extra details?Mass Driver is the flashy new font foundry that just moved into the neighborhood.
They’ve just launched with a very creative pixel font, titled MD-Eight, the eight namesake is because each character is set within an 8 by 8 grid of pixels.
MD Eight is a weird display typeface built on the foundation of a weird pixel typeface. With swash caps.https://t.co/HCM07hlAZ4
— Mass-Driverâ„¢ (@mass_driver_tm) February 20, 2020
(specimen pdf: https://t.co/vEOpGxPT3r) pic.twitter.com/WY4GPE6gdG
The font makes great use of negative space, making it impressively legible for a font made out of pixels.
How do I get it?If you’ve ever sat and tried to figure out the math behind geometric folds? It’s an incredibly tricky process! With this Origami Study Yuin Chien has created a beautiful digital representation of the folds, and colors of origami.
In her own words, the project is:
A series of visual study exploring origami compositions and colors, hoping to give forms to personal memories and poetic imagination.
More like this?It was really fun to study origami! I played with forms, colors & compositions for playful/poetic imagination. More process here:https://t.co/QULbpkvKmm
— Yuin Chien (@yuinchien) January 22, 2020
Live demo made with paperjs & datgui: https://t.co/Puol1hC4W4#creativecoding #origami #generative #datgui pic.twitter.com/Y57OQVcqoF
In the grips of the current COVID–19 climate, we’re all understandably in the midst of looking at our current hygienic ways, and ideally improving it for the better of all of us!
Over the past few weeks I’ve spotted a lot of very helpful and creative projects popping up within the personal hygiene realm, and I’d love to highlight them!
Wash Your Lyrics by William Gibson is one of my favorite examples.
We’ve learned that washing your hands to the tune of Happy Birthday (some people say twice) is a great way to get the correct amount of time to have truly clean hands. Wash Your Lyrics allows you to provide a song, and with the tempo and lyrics to that song, it will give you the step by step guide to washing your hands with it!
Lets see em?Game developer and student Matt Stark has come up with a simple idea that is expanding day by day into a really cool, conceptually mind-bending game.
At its core, the idea is that each picture you take with your camera contains a world within it. You can then place the photograph within your view… and step right into that world!
Are there more details?No ordinary camera #madewithunity #shaders #gamedev #polaroid pic.twitter.com/b9YHboryME
— Matt Stark (@mattstark256) November 11, 2019
Thibaud Goiffon is a French student studying graphic & interactive design. His project, Intimacy, shows off an amazing spark of creativity and an ability to make curiously fun web toys!
What have people been making?Oh wow. This art project bills itself as interactive poetry, a collection of animated pieces centered around intimacy.
— 💫 Josh (@JoshWComeau) March 4, 2020
This is wonderful and delightful and this video cannot capture how lovely it is.https://t.co/HZmBt4aXsO pic.twitter.com/w4TN8ua4DL
The aptly named Broider by Max Bittker is a nifty tool for creating, and decorating, your borders.
Broider allows you to paint your borders in a one-bit style (the bit is either on or off, no colors), with a few small tools to help keep things in line: a 9x9 grid, an undo button (for people like me who never get things right the first time), and a little lock button that will keep all of your painting symmetrical.
What have people been making?February has come and gone, and since it’s a leap year, 29 days have gone with it. Twenty-nine wonderful days of my favorite Twitter hashtag, #PlotterTwitter.
As with January, here’s another round-up of amazing artists & pen plottings, alongside any other commentary/algorithm I can spot within the works!
Straversi printed off an elevation map of SF in brilliant detail, using this fantastic open source tool that was built on top of Mapbox.
San Francisco elevation print
— straversi (@straversi1) February 3, 2020
generated with https://t.co/HarY8a3iqW #plottertwitter pic.twitter.com/K30LoJOyn2
Joseph Wilk is doing some amazing work, hooking the axidraw up to an airbrush. With liquid ink, the outcome is intricate and super random.
More Please!Precision and imprecision with fluids and air.#plottertwitter #axidraw #automation #creativecoding #swctn pic.twitter.com/6q7ncRUfSM
— Joseph Wilk d[-_-]b (@josephwilk) February 4, 2020
