tl;dr #007
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Welcome one and all to another exciting instalment of tl;dr. A gentrified mix of weird news and in-jokes from a who’s who of the Internet, us. Obviously.
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#graphic-design-is-my-passion
Another fortnight fielding hot design and a channel haunting by Hot Patrick (the friendly ghost). What more could you want from us?
No one actually posted for the first three days. On day four, Adnaan linked us Sandland Sleep. Maybe a pass-agg attempt at calling out the lack of activity? An accusation that the channel had in fact been asleep? Or, perhaps, a palette of calming purple hues to gently wake us from our slumber. In any case, design talk ensued.
Only a few hours later, in a meeting with 1800-D2C we were introduced to Déplacé Maison. We couldn’t get the link in the channel fast enough. It went off. In fact, the link got posted across multiple channels. Hot design. Big moment. So much passion. Couldn’t get enough.
The next day, Hot Patrick, in a moment’s haunting, linked us this piece of Brand Identity work for Mega Suen. Charl then linked us the Ultimate Guide to Color in UX/UI Design. It’s gonna be on Zoe to figure out how we can create our own Studio System. Stay tuned.
Finally, Charl threw it to the group: anyone come across Ant Design?
“It’s the Alibaba version of Atomic Design, it seems. Automated, hyper efficient. Out-of-the-box enterprise design shit”.
But alas, no response.
#code-city
Adnaan kicked off code-city this week by poking the bear, or the Dog - Sharing some exciting new software, such as Utopia: A recently announced coding + design environment which uses React as a source of truth, and Achate: Showing off some pretty impressive, iterative Webflow templates for ecomms.
Dog had to innovate.
Lane joined the robots…
In more uplifting news, here are some CorgiButts. You’re. Welcome.
#vibe
This week, Flynn found a great resource for hooking up, while Adnaan’s got the perfect app for breaking up. Zoe found a cool site that generate graphics with maths or something too. There truly is a #vibe for everyone.
Someone cracked a joke about ‘four seasons in one day’ because Auckland, or Melbourne, or whatever city you’re reading this from. But it brought up this gem from Crowded House, which ended up being weirdly contentious.
She did some digging, which is convenient because this newsletter is big on in-jokes and small on explanations.
Crowded House is a band formed in Australia by (some) New Zealanders. There has been decades of conflict on whether they’re an Aussie or Kiwi band. In the comments above, Joe, a British who isn’t even part of the conflict, is trying to claim Crowded House as an Aussie band, and the Kiwis are telling him to fuck right off.
There’s hype, here are reasons. Enjoy.
Rounding out the vibe, we got really excited about apps named after the days of the week. So far we’ve got Thursday (a dating app) , Friyay (movie recommendations service) and Sunday (social media). If you know services named after other days of the week, let us know in the comments – we’d like to collect the lot!
#processes-and-platforms
The channels are all bleeding together, and it’s not feeling very process or platform-y, especially in this one. That probably explains why we’ve just been asking questions this week. Like, can you use Figma as a CMS?
We dug up an old article that started to give us a glimpse into how the fuck MSCHF fund their work. Turns out it’s exactly how you’d expect.
If you haven’t heard, we’re sort of obsessed with Ecommerce, so it makes sense that some of our newest friends are too. We’ve befriended Tim aka 1800-D2C and he had some extra spicy takes on some great tools for Ecomms. He’s also a legend.
Here are 5 things we picked up that he put down:
Gorgias is a customer support software, it works across Shopify and Recharge, so great when you have subscription products to manage.
Batch is the future of reorders, using QR codes. Wild.
Okendo is a reviews service that’s closer to home, somewhere near “Melbourne, VIC” we hear. It’s pretty customisable and super cost effective.
Upscribe is a service that lets you build subscriptions right on top of Shopify, you can make ‘em look pretty fleeky too.
Blueprint is a tool that lets you buy and sell stuff with text messages.
We were gonna share a PDF but got some better advice.
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