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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. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

#typography #risograph #printmaking

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Learned something totally new about a piece of software Iโ€™ve used for multiple decades last night and now wondering if that โ€œfeatureโ€ was always there and I just somehow never knew.

Fonts in packaged InDesign files override system ones in how theyโ€™re loaded as long as theyโ€™re in a โ€œDocument fontsโ€ folder alongside the InDesign file itself. Huh. ๐Ÿค”

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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Itโ€™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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@Luke For more fun, donโ€™t miss the alt tag :P

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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@justsnook Get on the bus!

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.

scottboms,
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@soundclamp I might even get the second color down on the screen prints tonight. Stretch goalsโ€ฆ

scottboms,
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@soundclamp Stretch goal accomplished :) Will save the last one for tomorrow.

scottboms,
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@soundclamp Somewhere between โ€œtech dystopiaโ€ and โ€œworkers rightsโ€ with a twinge of brand parody.

scottboms,
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@splorp Or maybe Iโ€™m headed into The Abyss? @Luke

scottboms, to random
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โ€œI have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that canโ€™t scale.โ€œ Yup. And I feel this so deep in my bones.

https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/pursuits-that-cant-scale

scottboms,
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@twatson I bet it is! Checks out for a good number of people I know whoโ€™ve been through the big tech machine.

scottboms, to random
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Trimmed one new print by hand and now waiting for everything to set before I fire up the guillotine to do the rest.

Luke, to blogging
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Update 048:
Incense Cedar

https://lukedorny.com/updates/incense-cedar

Blackwing insanity.

scottboms,
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@Luke There was a Sister Corita set from Blackwing??!!

[runs off to check eBay]

scottboms, to random
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It's a very freeing to be able to tinker with ideas when your site is built on @getkirby because it means you can whip up weird functionality like the plugin I made today to output the current Japanese micro season on my site.

And it's so easy to even override the code that it outputs if youโ€™d prefer different markup without touching the plugin code directly.

onpaperwings, to random
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And while Iโ€™m out here โ€™reppin friendโ€™s work, you should pick up @scottboms's latest Riso booklet on the 10 rules by Sister Corita Kent: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1650275650/10-rules-for-teachers-and-students-zine

Picture from Scott Bomโ€™s โ€œ10 Rulesโ€ Riso book with a photo of a nun (Sister Corina Kent) and a separate piece of paper with a small rectangle cut out of it, meant for viewing the world differently.
A spread from Scott Bomโ€™s โ€œ10 Rulesโ€ Riso book with the quote โ€œNothing is a mistake. Thereโ€™s no win and no fail. Thereโ€™s only make.โ€
A separate piece of paper with a small rectangle cut out of it, meant for viewing the world differently. There is a quote printed on it: โ€œYou have to look at the world [in] small pieces at a time.โ€

scottboms,
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@onpaperwings Thanks amigo :) Hope you dig it!

scottboms, to random
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DAILY SPECIAL, this monthโ€™s font-of-the-month from @djrrb is a real banger. Best subscription out there by a long mile. Get it: https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club

delve, to random

A heads-up for you turntable enthusiasts: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166574458178

scottboms,
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@delve Eep, too rich for my blood.

scottboms,
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@delve Depending on price point, thereโ€™s probably a market that would be interested.

scottboms,
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@Luke @delve What Luke said! And then we find out what happens if you encode a font onto vinylโ€ฆ

Luke, (edited ) to random
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โ€œConsider Everything an Experimentโ€ | @scottboms https://scottboms.com/documenting/consider-everything-an-experiment

Iโ€™m a perpetual student. This applies to me.
Go find the book/print/specimen/creation here now: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1650275650/

scottboms,
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@Luke One day Iโ€™ll be patient enough to take better product photos! Need to come up with a better system.

Luke, to random
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Weโ€™re finally mounting our friendโ€™s collected artworks.

scottboms,
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@Luke Thatโ€™s an oldie. Maybe my second Riso print ever, from what, maybe twelve years ago?

Luke, to random
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Set this up again on a new machine because it's so annoying as a default in VS Code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEFWw4ZOIfs

Closing this ang going back to Nova.

scottboms,
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@splorp Is there an archive of Font & Fubction issues somewhere? @Luke @AnthonyBaker

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