October 21, 2018
Everything (and nothing much) has changed in web typography
Everything is changing in web typography (and why your old sites will still be okay) When you make a website, it’s important to consider the data weight of everything you include: images, videos, CSS & JS, analytics trackers, and fonts. If you…
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September 24, 2018
Lessons learned at TypeMedia
This July, I graduated from TypeMedia in the class of 2018. It was one of the most difficult, most rewarding experiences of my life. I’m still too close to it to understand its long-term impact on my design career, but I learned a tremendous amount…
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September 13, 2017
Handle events in Gatsby React Components
My initial question: I’ve recently been working on a blog using GatsbyJS, which is based on React. The main challenge I have with it right now is how to the use javascript to manipulate the DOM in react. I know basic javascript, but my basic…
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September 07, 2017
TypeMedia class introductions + hot tips™ to giving a good self-intro presentation
Today, September 7th, we met (most of) our teachers and had a walk through the calendar for the year and of the course expectations. Then, each student presented for 10 minutes to explain who they are, where they come from, what work they have done…
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September 06, 2017
Orientation at KABK for TypeMedia ’18
Tomorrow is the actual first day of class, but last week we had three days of orientation. Monday, we met the classmates who weren’t here earlier and got some opening remarks. I also joined a group of Art Research students on a walking tour of The…
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September 03, 2017
How to type with emoji and special characters on macOS 🎨
Quick: you need to add an emoji to an email/document/mockup – what do you do? What if you instead need to add a special character, like a ℉ or ® sign? I used to reach for something like Emojipedia or Amp-What , then copy-and-paste from there…
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