Issue 012

Welcome to the February newsletter. A century of Black cinema, finding your voice, how animators fake analog light, and a tool for brand research. stay ready via pedro 1 — an approach to typography for the web With the news of Daybreak Studio sunsetting after 5 years of working in the industry, I wanted to poke around their site and look into their writings. Of the three, their latest article touched on what it's like designing typography principles for the web. It was so interesting seeing this sort of thinking being applied to web, especially approaching it beyond just systems. 2 — a robust digital archive of brand guidelines Doing research and inspo pulls for that brand project you're doing can sometimes feel fragmented across the web. There are so many different sites, articles, bookmark services, etc. to browse through, and it can also feel a bit overwhelming. While going deep into creating moodboards one night for a client, I came across Brand Archive—a website with a goal of allowing you to "super-power your brand research" and "discover logos, art direction and fonts from hundreds of brands past and present." 3— finding your personal design language The importance of finding your own unique voice, approach, and style in creativity is the essence of what makes you, you. Imposter syndrome is always the enemy. I came across this lecture made by the late Virgil Abloh a few years ago that talks about what it's like finding your own personal style, and how it's important "not to be precious." stay curious via taurean 1 — xikipedia Whenever I come across something interesting and weird on the web, I immediately want to show people. This project by Lyra Rebane is exactly that kind of thing. It's an algorithmic feed where every post is a Wikipedia article. Tapping into one shapes what gets surfaced next. It's a little recursive, but it's a cool project, especially since you can start by picking topics you actually care about and the whole site gets cached locally so it works offline once it's loaded. 2 — black film archive Black Film Archive is a curated directory of Black films released between 1898 and 1999, created by Maya S. Cade. You can browse by decade, genre, or continent. I'm especially grateful for how much time this archive covers. As a whole it's a powerful artifact that speaks to the contribution of Black artists to cinema, and each entry tells you where you can stream it. 3— dangerous light Technical insights into creative work are some of my favorite things to come across. This piece by Animation Obsessive gets into how animators work to emulate the way light behaved on analog film, and the amount of labor involved is wild. What's interesting to me is how much of creating something new requires looking backward. There's a whole craft around intentionally reintroducing qualities that digital tools spend so much effort eliminating. --- updates - Missed the January issue? View last month’s archive channel on Are.na. - Our March meet up will be another "Several people are typing…" where we catch up over lunch (or dinner, depending on your timezone) and dig in on some burning hot topic of the day. - If there's something that you're working on and you would be open to discussing it with a group, reach out. from the community: 🦗🦗🦗… Send us something cool, it might make it into the next newsletter! --- We made it! This is issue 12 of 3&3, marking the end of our first year of meetups and newsletters. Our next issue will mark the beginning of year two with all of you. We're really grateful for the community that has built up around this thing. We're looking forward to celebrating that milestone in March and continuing to see where things go. --- ✌ Pedro & Taurean bluesky ✦ lu.ma ✦ youtube