design

Haven’t written about open-source software here in a long time. I want to do that more regularly again. Kicking things off is the graphics editor “Graphite”. Graphite is free software for graphics editing. It supports both vector and raster graphics and is also suitable for creating animations. What sets Graphite apart is its non-destructive workflow: changes can be adjusted at any time without altering the original. Editing is done via a node-based system in which graphical elements are controlled and combined through connections. The project aims to be more than a traditional graphics editor, bringing tools for design, painting, animation, and effects together on one platform. ...

The development team at MacPaw, in collaboration with the design studio AlphaBravo, has released the typeface Fixel Font under the open Open Font License. On this project, we had the privilege of collaborating with AlphaBravo and its founder, Kyrylo Tkachev. AlphaBravo is a renowned type studio, recognized for shaping the Ukrainian typographic landscape and promoting a distinct Ukrainian voice through its fonts. The design of Fixel was led by Marcela Mozhina and Serhiy Makarenko. ...

On the wonderful website archives.design you can find great book covers, posters, and other items. A digital archive of graphic-design-related items available on the Internet Archive As a source of inspiration, I share and archive the link to this great website. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

What you can do these days with pure CSS is pretty astonishing. The page A Single Div by Lynn Fisher shows what can be packed into a single div. Everything’s there — from heads and candy to cartoon characters and lovely icons. Really an impressive bit of fun. Thank you Stefan The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don’t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. ...