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

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

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.

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!

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 ;)

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

⇾ Visit: Print Stylesheets 2018

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

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.

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

• Website
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook

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

I recently stumbled over another blog post, where someone was complaining about Twitter and how negative this platform, or better, its users nowadays are. And I don’t mean people like Mike Monteiro, who is complaining about the people behind Twitter, for a reason. And I also agree, that more and more people use Twitter to simply chuck up their bad experiences/day/thoughts … you name it.

If you now decide to leave Twitter as a platform, as you can’t stand it anymore, that is fine. I myself have to say, that I still use it a lot. On one hand it still helps me with my business a lot. I announce, advertise and discuss my event related things on @btconf. On the other hand I chat and stay in touch with friends at @marcthiele. I like the way of thinking about and using it, like I learned when learning about the IndieWeb movement. But I still like to use it.

If you don’t leave Twitter, why not starting to focus on the positive. Try not to post all your negative crap, but every time something positive happens to you or something where you think it might help or motivate other people you go and broadcast that.

I think if we are not satisfied with something and how it is, we are the ones who have to change it, if it is of interest for us. Again: if it is not, you are right, when you maybe better simply leave it. But, please, do this then instead of adding to the negative noise.