Patrick Altair 🌙

👋 Looking for design work September-onward! Branding, web design & dev, packaging, ecom, publication—you name it. I have 10+ years experience working in-house, agency, and freelance.

Email info@somethingelse.works if you're interested in collaborating 🤝

A magazine page scan. It reads "Kingdom" at the top followed by a series of programming instructions for a game.

A spread from “Sinclair Programs”, a magazine that shared BASIC software for readers to copy. Some of these go pretty hard. via @goodspeed.bsky.social casualarchivist.substack.com/p/full-spect...

Another 10/10 entry in Figma’s portfolio of features which look great but will make your web developer cry

Ahhh @grillitype.bsky.social, forever the masters of the typeface microsite (and also designing fonts I guess)

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I just started playing DS1 after hearing DS2 was so good. And it’s fun and very polished to me (admittedly it’s the director’s cut which changes some of the landscape and missions). Makes me think the main problem with DS1 is people expected it’d be MGSV meets P.T. and it’s not.

We’re cooked.

Fontstand have a survey going right now for designers, you fill it out and get a bunch of free fonts from its members! Here's some experiments with some of them—Klim Type’s Maelstrom and Dynamo’s Whyte.

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Kagi is like using a search engine when they were good. Instead of slop, summaries, or ads you get links. They give you 100 free searches to try it out then $5 a month after that. (Stumbled across it in a @davidpierce.xyz article I think?)
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huge day on the frutiger aero subreddit

Whaaat? Scoundrels! Really surprising they don’t make that accessible to developers. Fingers crossed they open that up 🤞

Ah, I getcha. I guess 2x is an unusual case where it’s sort of a pseudo-lens, a crop but still 12MP (just don’t get the benefits of binning). Personally I use 2x the most but understand the dedication to the physical!

This focal length slider is incredibly satisfying to use 👌 Would love the option to have a 1.5x and 2x here—perhaps via settings? 35mm and 50mm always feels to me like _the_ camera focal lengths (and why I bothered getting the pro at all)

Witchcraft!

Not sure why bluesky is adding ambient cicada noise to the background of this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Talia Cotton’s studio is always doing very cool shit on the web

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

Also if you got any favourite scarf recommendations that’d be nice too. Currently looking at Drakes Mughal print ones. Good of you to save the cats!

I’m heading to a “cocktail” dress code wedding in hot weather and thinking of wearing a silk scarf rather than a tie. Have any inspo shots for how to style a scarf with a suit that’s a little less flamboyant than the usual? Currently thinking either tucked under an open shirt or with a white vest

When everyone is aggrandizing their impact on humanity over drone shots and 3D graphics, the most riveting product announcement will be watching an old man vacuum.

They’re neat, contained digital projects, often with clear inspiration you can channel, and then cherry on top—you get to animate them. They’re very fun to work on.

17th C French aristocrats wearing “mouches” on their face to hide blemishes. Yuts wearing star-shaped pimple patches. Time is a flat circle.

Screenshot of a macOS "drag app to applications folder" installer but there are three applications folders that are titled "Drag here?" "or maybe drop here?" and "don't get it wrong!" The app is called "Tangerine" and the icon is an orange.

Basically yes

The rest of the short is cool but I _really_ liked the credits for the Marathon cinematic trailer.
youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s

Hey, I'm Patrick, a designer based in Vancouver that's into frontend code, animation and the web ✌️
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This is insane. I like it.

This is so fun! Makes me want to see the “liquid” slosh around and settle when it moves.

Thanks! Took a few prototypes to get to that interaction but was really happy with it in the end.

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