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by commieneko 5y ago
It’s definitely not an attack on automation. The value in this case would be to identify types of jobs and the various red flags around them. Some BS jobs actually have a lot of, pointless, work attached to them. You would want to avoid the
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by commieneko 5y ago
_Bullshit Jobs_, by David Graeber. The article it's based on is all over the web if you want to get a quick overview. The book expands on the ideas. It seems like a joke, and in many ways it is. But it's also a surprisingly thoug
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by commieneko 5y ago
“From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the
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by commieneko 5y ago
Commercial artist for 45 years. Also a developer, FWIW, mostly graphics programming since the late 1970s. _Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ is actually one of the best places to start. I know you said you tried it. But try it thi
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by commieneko 5y ago
There is a drawing tool that will work with pen tablets. It's not perfect, but it, like a lot of the features, is a start. The end result of the tool is a simplified bezier curve. There is a tolerance slider that lets you control how m
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by commieneko 5y ago
Hire an illustrator to create them for you. What makes the Notion illustrations so appealing and effective to me is not their style, though I love the way they look, it is that they are created for the need at hand. They are individually ma
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by commieneko 8y ago
Not exhaustive, or in any particular order: _Animator's Survival Kit_, by Richard Williams. _Illusion of Life_, by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. _Animation from Script to Screen_, by Shamus Culhane. _Natural Way to Draw_, by Kimon N
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by commieneko 8y ago
That is similar to the answer I came up with in high school, about 40 years ago. Artwork, objects of note, curiosities with provenances, tourists, off the grid information that needs to remain _really_ secure, spies, traitors, patriots, dis
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by commieneko 8y ago
From Cordwainer Smith's classic short story "Mark Elf." Carlotta stared at the machine. It had legs like a grasshopper, a body like a ten-foot turtle, and three heads which moved restlessly in the moonlight. From the forward
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by commieneko 9y ago
About 20 years ago I had a twice a week commute of about 3 hours. I worked my way through the bulk of Lillian Jackson Braun's "Cat Who ..." book as read by Mr. Guidall. Even when I was reading from the dead tree version I&#x
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by commieneko 9y ago
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that icons are not a terribly good way to convey information. Some things and concepts, sure. Others, not so much. Especially in technology and science. Navigation can make good use of icons. Le
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by commieneko 10y ago
I seem to fall into both categories. I started kindergarten at age 4 and went three years; my mother used a private kindergarten as a kind of daycare. I started first grade at age 7. I learned to read in first grade almost instantly and w
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by commieneko 10y ago
I'm a coder and a designer. Been doing both for 40 years. Since when design was all analog and coding was machine language and c language. To do what I did was necessary at the time. But it was not always a great idea. While it'
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by commieneko 10y ago
Partly it depends on the kind of writing/brainstorming I'm doing. I make lots of drawings in my notes, which is hard to do with a keyboard only app. Graphics tablets, even my Cintiq, which I use for actual drawing, don't have
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by commieneko 10y ago
I would recommend to anyone wanting to do any kind of visual design to learn to draw observationally. You don't have to become Leonardo or John Singer Sargent, but learning to draw is learning to see. The same goes for photography. Ev
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by commieneko 10y ago
I'm exactly the opposite. Everything in my head is an image. When I do math, I'm manipulating shapes, connections, colors. The space seems to be higher dimensionally, as things can be close and far depending on how I'm "
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by commieneko 11y ago
Muzak dates back to the 1930s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_(brand)
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by commieneko 12y ago
It says "Ouch, you just hit one of the brand new noise generators! These generators are available to contributing visitors first, then become public after a while." I say, "Ouch, I've never heard of your site before and
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by commieneko 12y ago
Depth of field is the area in front of a camera where objects are in focus. Objects closer or farther are out of focus in some proportional manner. In some tests I'd define a 3D camera with a specific depth of field that matched the di
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by commieneko 12y ago
About 10 - 15 years ago I did some tests, animations done in After Effects mostly, showing some UI concepts that used motion blur, depth of field, translucency, parallax, etc. I wanted to play around with non-planer surfaces, but at the tim
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by commieneko 12y ago
It wouldn't cast an umbral shadow at all. It would cast a incredibly faint penumbral shadow. Look at it this way, at the sizes that are commonly talked about for these, at the orbital heights being talked about, the occlusion of the su
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by commieneko 13y ago
You just aren't reading what I wrote.
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by commieneko 13y ago
Learning to observe critically certainly _is_ a foundational skill in any kind of visual design. Observational drawing is probably the best way to develop that skill. Do it or don't, the choice is yours. Anyone wanting to learn programming
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by commieneko 13y ago
I'm sure you probably can. People are very flexible and determination is more important than nearly anything. Why anyone would _choose_ to do it this way is a mystery to me. But a lot of people stumble into graphic design from other discip
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by commieneko 13y ago
If you've never learned to draw, why would you conclude that? To be honest, nearly all the people I know that are good at observational drawing are crackerjack designers. And they are not limited to popular fads and patterns. When you can
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by commieneko 13y ago
No, read what I wrote. It's about learning to see. You can certainly learn to see other ways, but drawing is the one of the most I direct and applicable.
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by commieneko 13y ago
As an illustrator, graphic designer, animator and software developer for over 35 years, my advice is to start off by taking some drawing classes. Being able to draw means being able to _see_. Most people don't see, they look and recognize.
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by commieneko 13y ago
This can't be over stressed. I've a friend who used to work as a shooter for several photographers. A good photographer won't let a freelancer anywhere near a wedding utill they've proved themselves on less critical jobs. The stress is unbe
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by commieneko 13y ago
No. Flat design is like singing a solo, live.
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by commieneko 14y ago
The world isn't ruled by ideology or simple formulas. It's all details and proportion; with the best solutions usually emergent and as specialized as the problems. If you have a marvelous idea or insight into how electric cars could or sho

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