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in Design
Designs for ‘Ghana at 67’
Every year, around the middle of February, I think to myself: “Hm. 6th March coming up, should do something.” This year was no different; was fairly confident I would, right up to Monday the 4th,…
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in Bookmarks
Observe: Nick Sweeting
Just stumbled on Nick Sweeting’s cool homepage (via ArchiveBox, which showed up because I was trying to learn how I can share video without exposing viewer analytics, again) and he links to a lot of interesting things: …
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Reading: ‘When Tools Become Creatures’
Two articles, by DimSumThinking and ArsTechnica, reflecting and reporting on a world where agency is shared with machines.
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in Design
Design for consent & agency: privacy modals
Over the past six weeks or so, I started collecting interesting example of modals for cookie permissions. The results are not very encouraging, even after I chose to avoid any references to OneTrust. JetBrains.com Such…
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in Essays
On Making
I thought of myself as a ‘creator’ before the YouTube community owned the word, because I see creativity as a link to God. Now I call myself a maker, which has a earthier feel, suggestive of craftsmanship. This…
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in Art
Motobi Tees Launched!
12th December, 2018: I stole time at my desk at Lema Concepts, with a deadline pressing, to build a page at mradot.com/motobi. That was version 3 of this website, a static build on the Bootstrap 3 framework. Back then,…
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in Freebies
Freebie: Adinkra Sans (50 simplified vector icons)
Short story Download Adinkra Sans – 50 icon pack in SVG and PNG: designed for any graphic project, personal or commercial. Wait. Any project? Ah, you caught that. We went for adaptability, not…
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in Bookmarks
All Of The Bookmarks: Design
A quite comprehensive list of design resources and tools I use or intend to use, or don’t want to forget in case someday I might want to think of using… or they just looked nice.…
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in Tips
Typography tips for poster design
I used to design type posters almost everyday; now it’s mainly brochures and reports. Recently I was wondering if my process is solid enough to meet both needs – and more importantly, how many…