Johannes López Ayala

Although it’s probably great for gym bros for whom a Waterrower isn’t “manly” enough, I guess.

First time rowing on a Concept 2 rower. That thing is a dystopian steampunk machine straight out of a Mad Max movie.

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, achieves what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: one’s inner power.”

― Paul Gauguin

By the way, if you’re that person that posts AI-generated text, this advice isn’t for you. Keep doing what you’re doing. Keep stuffing AI slop in your social media cards so the rest of us get a chance to ignore your output.
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So your article or post (which you probably put a fair amount of work in) will be ignored because of an image that flicks away in a social media feed for a split-second?

Don’t let this happen to you. Let people read your headline. Give them a chance to reflect on the quality of your writing.
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Here’s the catch, though. How do people know you didn’t just have your text generated, as well?

They don’t.

So they’ll just assume you did.

Guess who wants to read a text from ChatGPT?

Right—nobody. (They can ask ChatGPT on their own, tailored to their own world view, you know.)
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Why is that? People connect an AI-generated image to low effort and laziness.

Which, let’s be honest, is what it was for you. You couldn’t be bothered to create or license a picture. So you just had one generated on a whim.
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Those people can spot AI slop from a mile by now. Especially AI “illustrations”. Guess what? They won’t even read your headline in that case. They’ll just keep scrolling.

For your article’s sake, don’t use an AI image. It’s a deterrent! Having no image gets you more readers than AI slop.
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🧵Hey bloggers and Medium writers, I get it. You want a nice preview image for those fancy social media cards. That’ll surely make more people click your link, right?

Here’s a dirty little trade secret for you:
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Today, we are just as far away from 2000 as we are from 2050 (8,949 days).

I think it was Matthew Carter who is said to have stated, “Type design is not taxidermy”, in regard to type revivals.

But I cannot seem to find a source.

Anyone have a link or literature source at hand?

Schild „Frisör“ in eonem Schaufenster. Die Buchstaben F, R, I und R sind in der Titelschrift der FAZ gesetzt, S und Ö aus zwei anderen Serifenfonts.

Beim zweiten Besuch der Straße in Düsseldorf habe ich es kapiert: In „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ fehlen die Buchstaben S und Ö.

Bandsintown lockup. Icon: light cyan “Heavy Metal Horns” gesture that also doubles as a “b” with a stylized audio bar visualizer above it, composed entirely of rectangular shapes. Logotype below: “bandsintown”, typeset in a a generic geometric sans.

Never heard of Bandsintown before. Noticed them today because they’ve got the best logo I’ve seen in a while. www.company.bandsintown.com/brand-assets

54 Herserange 1979

54 Piennes 1979

A dense poster of hundreds of printers marks/colour tests arranged vertically and horizontally to fill all space

A poster of printers marks. 2008. Fanette Mellier.
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/354608

House Appreciation Society.
www.instagram.com/houseappreci...

The membership badges would be very cute.

Sacred Music (1915)
by Edward Okuń

The Book Box is back! Edition 2 is now available on pre-order.

shop.itemzero.com/products/the...
A 20 piece set demonstrating binding techniques. 799 euros.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

Achrome by Piero Manzoni, 1962 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137430

Far far away
by Frances Featherstone

When life hands you lemons (2024)
by Frances Featherstone

Painted image of artist Beauford Delaney, seen from the side, his eyes downturned, his white collar the only piece of his clothing visible

Georgia O'Keeffe's stunning portrait of fellow artist Beauford Delaney, from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

Lotte Jacobse's slide on what you can do as an individual designer (from her KRUPA design conference keynote): 1. Start from an open and new perspective 2. Know your lens, and your blind spots 3. Center the impact on people 4. Vision with hope, design with realism

If you're overwhelmed as a designer right now, let's break it down to: What can *you* do?

Publicatie 2 De fundamenten en kerntaken van een toekomstig netwerk van zorg en ondersteuning.

Download Lotte’s two booklets on design for mental health (in Dutch) here:

www.redesigningpsychiatry.org/tools/redesi...

www.redesigningpsychiatry.org/tools/redesi...

KRUPA YouTube video by RecOnFace Studio

Lotte Jacobse presenting the Reframing design method at KRUPA design conference right now. Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/iwOnoc_...

Traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting Benzaiten with a white dragon, symbolizing her connection to water deities and wisdom. (Aoigaoka Keisei, 1832)

Benzaiten, originally a Hindu river goddess adopted into Buddhism, is one of Japan's Seven Lucky Gods. Known for bestowing wisdom, music and eloquence, she's often depicted with a biwa (lute) and surrounded by water symbols, dragons, or serpents.

Keiji Shinohara（Japanese）
woodcut

“Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)” (detail), 1870, by Winslow Homer.

A 1993 screenshot of a font menu in three colums displaying 21 knockoff typefaces with hilarious names trying to stick close to the original trademark names, e. g., "Palamino" for "Palatino", or "Minstrel" for "Mistral".

Gosh, I’d certainly like to do some rad layout work with my 1993 selection of classic fonts like “Palamino”, “Minstrel”, “Hobby”, or—who doesn’t love it?—“Soutane”.