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scottboms

@scottboms@typo.social

Multidisciplinary design generalist, printmaker, tinkerer, author. Formerly the Design Lead for the Facebook (meta) Analog Research Lab. Enjoys cycling, books, Risograph, Polaroid photography, and type nerdery. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸

#typography #risograph #printmaking

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Luke, to random
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hey, everyone, I just had an epiphany and it lines up with what @scottboms keeps telling me:

KIFS.

scottboms,
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@Luke 💪🏼 It works.

scottboms,
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@Luke @splorp Oh so that’s why I’ve been losing so much sleep at night!

scottboms, to random
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Printing “A Map of the New World" by Stanley Donwood at Idem Press in Paris on the massive press known as Moby Dick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ktqor91ks

scottboms,
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@Luke Yup. Apparently took 5 weeks to cut.

scottboms, to random
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Went out to the studio to tidy up a bit and apparently I’m printing a new edition now.

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👋 For those interested, the brilliant and lovely @cameronmoll did a talk at the 2024 Front-End Design Conference. Wasn't there, but looks like it was wonderful. Here's a link to a PDF of his slides. Worth checking out. He also created a colophon, which is an idea I might steal…

And he quoted our own @scottboms!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_2Lcpy7uZ85cuLQdHaWueYYE5-dOCI3f/view

#design #FrontEndDesignConf

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scottboms,
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@AnthonyBaker @cameronmoll oooh! Well then 😊

Luke, to nature
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I live in the woods.

It helps me everyday.

https://youtu.be/3geZ5EVZg7E

scottboms,
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@Luke The algorithm tried to make me sit through not one but two 1 min ads to even start watching that. And the first was an about optimizing my schedule with AI so... now I really need a walk in the woods…

scottboms,
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@Luke They were in an acceptable range prior to clicking that link and frankly I should have known better.

scottboms, to random
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I definitely have too many slides to get through in this lecture this morning despite serious culling.

scottboms,
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@Luke Made it through and still had time for lots of questions! And despite numerous detours from my notes.

scottboms, to random
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Next stop 🛫 Chicago. Bring me all the Cheezborgers! No Pepsi — Coke!

Luke, to random
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Allowing myself some scope creep.

scottboms,
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@Luke Ruh-roh Shaggy, what now?

scottboms, to random
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Dropping off orders at the mailbox. Walking back as new ones hit my inbox. A good problem but also 🤦‍♂️

scottboms,
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@Luke I think this latest one hit a nerve.

scott, to random
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    scottboms,
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    @scott I’m sure that example is exactly what most users of Illustrstor are going for… but mostly 🤦‍♂️

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    @scott That was my experience as well when I tried it. The little pop up never going away is a metaphor for how bloated Adobe’s software is these days.

    scottboms, to random
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    It’s a bicycle repair and gardening kind of day.

    scottboms,
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    @Luke Mostly weeding today but bought some new habanero and serrano plants to eventually use for making hot sauce. Also just solved my constant flat tire problems.

    scottboms, to random
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    Somehow missed that Jackson @Okay released a new type family at the end of February and it’s a beaut. Do yourself a favor and check out Euchre. ✨✨

    https://okaytype.com/euchre

    scottboms, to random
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    Let me tell you it’s pretty fun to try operating with one eye nearly swollen shut. Looks like an allergic reaction to something biting my eyelid.

    scottboms, to random
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    Learned something totally new about a piece of software I’ve used for multiple decades last night and now wondering if that “feature” was always there and I just somehow never knew.

    Fonts in packaged InDesign files override system ones in how they’re loaded as long as they’re in a “Document fonts” folder alongside the InDesign file itself. Huh. 🤔

    scottboms,
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    @Luke Yeah I think so. I discovered after trying many things to override or fix what I thought was a corrupted cache. Instead it just turned out to be moving those fonts to go back to use the system ones.

    scottboms, to random
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    It’s been a little while since I properly screenprinted and boy, I forgot how satisfying it is to make a little print edition.

    scottboms,
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    @beep Sir, I got U.

    justsnook, to random
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    I recognize this is a very specific reference but I have the song Spadina Bus in my head.

    scottboms,
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    @splorp Hell yeah! @justsnook

    scottboms, to random
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    One small piece from some productive time in the studio today. Also printed the first color of an edition of 3-color screen prints and another set of Riso prints.

    #risograph #riso #printmaking

    scottboms,
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    @splorp Or maybe I’m headed into The Abyss? @Luke

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