Notes

⇾ Holding the Door Open for Others

My friend Brendan Dawes publishes on his own website and encourages you to do as well.

⇾ Visit: Holding the Door Open for Others

Eifel Sunset

Photo showing a sunset in above a forest.

Sunset in the Eifel. Staying in a hunting lodge somewhere in the nowhere in the middle of a forest.

Meeting People in Berlin

Photo showing Tantek, me, David and Joschi in Berlin. All smiling.

Meeting a lovely group of people in Berlin. Not even at the event I am at. Hey Joschi, Tantek and David.

Workshops with Eva-Lotta Lamm

My good friend Eva-Lotta Lamm is organising two workshops in London on May 31st and June 1st. They are titled “Sketching Interfaces” and “Sketching for Visual Thinking & Sketchnoting”. If that sounds like anything for you, I can highly recommend checking the long description, as I know you’ll have a good day with Eva-Lotta.

Read workshop description.

Thanks for beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf

As usual I will write a longer wrap-up post at the beyond tellerrand blog shortly, but I am absolutely overwhelmed by the lovely, friendly and kind words for beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. Thanks so much!

Presents I got in Düsseldorf
Lovely presents I got during beyond tellerrand 2018 in Düsseldorf

Thanks also for the lovely presents I got at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf to Jens Meiert, Tomas Caspers, Anke Mehlert, Chris Heilmann, Stefan Baumgartner, Andreas Nebiker, Justin Avery, dina Amin, Jared Tarbell and Vic Lee (I hope I did not forget anyone). Anke (and Chris) even did the 2016 Düsseldorf design in a 90x90cm Lego piece! And look at this gorgeous print by Vic Lee. No words.

BTW: I also like single malt whisky ;)

⇾ Print Stylesheets 2018

A well written overview about the state of print stylesheets in 2018. Posted by Rachel Andrew on Smashing Magazine

⇾ Visit: Print Stylesheets 2018

Interview with Confdays

A little while ago I sat down with Gilles Vauvarin, who asked me, if I’d be up for an interview about running my event. We met in Bastian Allgeier’s Slack channels for Kirby Next, as Gilles uses Kirby to run his website. It was lovely chatting with Gilles and I hope you like us talking about event planning, reasons for starting an event in the first place and dealing with problems.

Read: Marc Thiele – beyond tellerrand

Braille Neue – Braille for everyone

Illustration showing how Braille and type turn into Braille Neue

I really like how easy it gets with Braille Neue to ready Braille. Especially for sighted people. I mean yes, the idea to combine Braille with a typeface is not new, but I somehow like the aesthetics of this approach and that it is not only planned to be for latin alphabets, but also for Japanese fonts.

Hobby No. 215 B

Photo showing an old package of fishing equipment

I remembered this gem in my basement a while ago and always wanted to shoot it for @purveyors_of_packaging as I love their packaging shots and encourage you to follow them. Now I simply shot it with my phone. Got this fishing equipment many, many years ago from my uncle (RIP), when I was twelve or so. Still working, still beautiful.

Links for Purveyors of Packaging

⇾ IFTTT Workflow with Instagram and Kirby

A few days back I asked my friend Brendan Dawes via a DM on Twitter, how he publishes his Instagram pictures to his blog. He said:

(A) combo of ifttt and a script I’ve written. I can feel a blog post coming on…

Now he has written this post and explains how he uses IFTTT and a webhook to post from Instagram to his own blog. You can easily take his example and adapt this to many other services. Thanks Bren for writing this.

⇾ Visit: IFTTT Workflow with Instagram and Kirby