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The tip of an iceberg
Look closely … 😢 By Jorge Gamboa (via Artists.Without.Borders)
The Making of ”Welcome Home” by Spike Jonze
I really enjoyed Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad for the HomePod, directed by Spike Jonze: Over at AdWeek there’s a behind the scenes video available showing how they made it: In particular, we get immersed in the choreography and the production … Continue reading
The Broccoli Tree: A Parable
Patrik Svedberg had been taking photos of a particular and unique tree which he named “The Broccoli Tree”. He posted the photos on an Instagram account dedicated to the tree. And then one day, he noticed something was wrong with … Continue reading
Convert SVG to JSX with SVGR
Ooh, this one’s handy. Paste in (no drag and drop unfortunately) the contents of an SVG file and out comes the JSX code for immediate use within your React project. SVGR also simplifies your SVG using SVGO (which is also … Continue reading
Subsetting web fonts with glyphhanger
glyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ … Continue reading
Fancy Words and Big Concepts
Reminds me of a few meetings/conversations I recently had 🙃 More quotes by Naval in this post: Navalism.
A New View of the Moon
Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh took a telescope around the streets of LA and invited people to look at the Moon through it. Watching people’s reactions to seeing such a closeup view of the Moon with their own eyes, perhaps … Continue reading
Rough.js – Create SVGs with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
Rough.js is a light weight (~8k), Canvas based library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. To get started … Continue reading
Geometric cover replication with CSS Grid, clip-path, and writing-mode
This one was fun dissecting: Geometric cover replication with CSS Grid, clip-path, and writing-mode →