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scottboms

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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. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ in πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

#typography #risograph #printmaking

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Luke, to Espresso
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Replacing the rubber group head seal with a softer silicone replacement seems to help.
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scottboms,
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@Luke Tell me more. Why replace? What was the problem?

scottboms, to random
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Crossed my goal of 1,000 outdoor miles on the road bike this year today (starting in late May). More than 3x what I did in 2022 which feels pretty darn good. Figure I've got a few hundred more in me as a stretch goal.

scottboms,
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@Luke Apple Watch and a custom spreadsheet that I update more or less daily. Full of dumb facts. @splorp inspired me to add haircuts in there too haha

onpaperwings, to random
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Type nerds with lots of fonts on their computer: What have you replaced FontExplorer X with?

https://rightfontapp.com/

or

https://typefaceapp.com/

or something else?

scottboms,
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@onpaperwings Currently using both, one on each machine with a shared library. So far so good. I originally gave up on Right Font because it seemed like it had been abandoned but then the new version came out so…

scottboms,
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@onpaperwings I think I prefer Right Font overall. Both are very performant with large libraries though and have good grouping and sorting functionality.

scottboms, to random
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Been spending a lot of time in @glyphsapp lately and man, sometimes it just feels like magic the things it can do.

Luke, to random
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Thanks to best friends I’m back in the instant realm. Thank you!

Time for some black and white shots.

scottboms,
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@Luke Welcome back to club analog. This is the way.

scottboms, to random
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It was all going so well until my brake line snapped.

I’m fine, the bike’s fine, just annoyed.

scottboms, to random
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It’s not 48 megapixels but I’m more excited about this than a new phone.

scottboms,
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@twatson Yup. Gotta collect β€˜em all. Or something.

scottboms, to random
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Excited to shoot with one of these soon. https://i2-camera.polaroid.com/en_us

scottboms,
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@Luke And the film is better than it’s been in a long time. I wish they’d make more of the experimental blue film. It was sooo good.

scottboms,
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@Luke Reclaimed Blue special edition. Looks like this ➝ https://flic.kr/p/2otqir6

scottboms,
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@splorp @presstype @Luke Impressive collection!

scottboms, to random
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Today was a good day. Been fun to flex some different design muscles the last few weeks and eventually I’ll even be able to say something about what I’ve been up to.

scottboms, to random
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2023 marks the 45th annual Society of Typographic Arts design competition and this year I get to share the honor of judging submissions alongside Jon Sueda and Nermin Moufti β€” so send us your best, most creative, adventurous and imaginative design and typographic projects before September 22nd at midnight CST!

https://100.sta-chicago.org

Luke, to random
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Cancelled my Adobe. Let’s see how this goes. Customer for almost 30 years.

scottboms,
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@Luke I’d like to as well but I my confidence in being able to access/open work from alternatives in 10/20/30 years isn’t super high. Also probably a bit stuck in my ways.

glass, to random
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Superdigging this Kickstarter project from Will Mower and Open Press Project:

BlockFace - A Stamp Kit to Explore Typography & More

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinschneider/blockface-a-stamp-kit-to-explore-typography-and-more

scottboms,
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@Luke @glass Same here! Next is deciding whether I have space/time to build out a Provisional Press kit too!

scottboms, to random
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Yeah, this is good. Very good. https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

scottboms, to random
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I started wondering last night if it would be worth the effort to create a public visual archive of work from the Analog Research Lab considering I have a backup of everything along with accompanying metadata.

Also, maybe a book?

scottboms,
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@delve @Luke @onpaperwings @splorp @letterformarchive Righty-o. One of these days I'll probably need to find a safe home for my physical archive of that work as well… and rescue the official archive before it ends up in the bin :-/

scottboms,
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@Luke Basically, yeah. @delve @onpaperwings @splorp @letterformarchive

slye, to random
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Ha, I went to see @jeffjarvis talk in SF and of course I ran into @scottboms there! (Also, great talk, Jeff, thanks.)

scottboms,
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@slye Made me very happy to see you old friend. And yes, it was an excellent talk/discussion. @jeffjarvis

onpaperwings, to random
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Working from a coffeeshop with my older son (9 years old), because summer break is a disaster of scheduling.

He ends his iPad time, takes off his headphones, and asks, β€œI mean: What is LIFE? If nothing can be perfect, what is the point?”

AND LET ME TELL YOU DEAR READERS: That is a lot to try and handle on a Monday morning.

scottboms,
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@onpaperwings Once you decide how to answer, please do share with the class kthx.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Good morning, San Francisco. One more time to bug and beg you to come to my conversation about The Gutenberg Parenthesis tomorrow, Tuesday, at 6p at the Commonwealth Club. Use JARVISCWC for $10 off. Streaming, too.
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-07-25/jeff-jarvis-age-print-and-internet-0

scottboms,
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@jeffjarvis Can’t wait. See you tomorrow night :)

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