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Bring the 80s to your desktop
2022/12/29 14:53
Meet Matriks 3, a small monospaced type family specially developed for day-to-day use on screen. Meticulously build on a 5×7 matrix: five pixels for x-height, plus one pixel for capitals and ascenders, and another pixel for descenders.
By just moving one pixel at a time, the Matriks fonts [Dunglish for matrix], took shape. It is astonishing to see how far one can push the contours of the glyphs to sometimes weird graphics but still make us think we’re reading Roman characters! Special attention has been given to the readability of the bold weight. In fact, contrast in letterforms increases readability.
With more than 200 glyphs both weights contain a full Google Fonts Basic character set.
Now add this vintage typographic look to your font collection and get your copies for just 5.00 EUR per font. Just send me a DM: DesignIsFijn@iCloud.com
Bikini Bottom
2022/10/31 19:01
Back once again... the energetic sponge from Bikini Bottom SpongeBob SquarePants! Build in 33 frames for just 0,1 seconds of animation... but so much fun to do! :)
Happy Mac
2022/07/17 13:28
The ‘Happy Macintosh’; inspired by the ubiquitous round yellow smile face. Original design by Susan Kare, around 1984.
My preciousss!
2022/07/08 19:42
Olijfje, Tijgertje and CoCo (Chanel); our cats. Arda says: “My preciousss!” (LotR)
Five days after publication on Divoom® Community: 1.6K views and many, many, likes! People simply love cats.
…after seven days: five medals!
Hang loose! \m/
2021/08/07 08:08
Every now and then I receive questions about the ASCII-emoticon in my mail signature. Well, it represents the ‘shaka sign’. A popular gesture among surfers which says: “Hang loose”, something like: “Enjoy life, and take it easy”.
By coincidence this ‘m’, surrounded by slashes, is the initial of my first name. \m/ Hang loose!
World’s #1 puzzle
2021/03/13 16:05
1974: Ernö Rubik—a professor from Budapest in Hungary—wanted to help his students understand 3D problems. His solution? The Rubik’s Cube! Ernö created the first working prototype in 1974. With 8 corner blocks and 12 edge blocks, 8!×12!×38×212 different positions are possible. However, it is not possible to achieve every situation by twists:
- Turns of corner blocks can only be done with at least two blocks at the same time
- Side blocks can only be rotated with at least two blocks at the same time
- Movements can only be made with three blocks at a time
Due to these limitations, the above value must still be divided by 2×2×3=12. Result: 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 (more than 43 trillion) in different positions. Only one of them is the right solution!
1982: The Museum of Modern Art in NYC selects Rubik’s Cube for its permanent collection.
2017: Rubik’s Brand enjoys a record year with retail sales reaching $250 million.
2021: For the trainspotters: as a big fan of this legendary puzzle (I solved it!) with its iconic design I have added a favicon of it to this site.
Ping (Pong)
2021/02/10 15:28
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, first released in 1972 by Atari. It is a two-player game based on table tennis [ping pong]. The game features simple 2D graphics. It consists of two paddles used to return a bouncing ball back and forth across the screen. The score is kept by the numbers at the top of the screen.
I recreated this game in Python. A tiny project to further develop my OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) skills.
You’ll notice that there are several lines in this program that start with a # symbol. The words following the # are a comment, added to make the code easier for users to read and understand.
For the type geeks: Typeface used for writing the code is Operator; a very fit workhorse specifically engineered for the screen by Hoefler&Co.
Warming-up
2020/10/06 15:20
Global warming? Not exactly one year ago when I joined the Down Under Obstacle Run [7.5 mi] in Nieuwegein (NL)! It was a double challenge: fighting numerous, slippery obstacles + poor weather conditions. With a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius it appeared to be the coldest 6th of October since 1936! A hot shower after some heavy exercise never felt so good before!
Less but better
2020/07/14 15:03
For my birthday: Replica of the iconic Braun pocket calculator ET66 (1977)
In the 1980s Dieter Rams, one of Germany’s most important and the world’s best known industrial designers, formulated his design philosophy; The 10 principles for good design:
- Good design is innovative
- Good design makes a product useful
- Good design is aesthetic
- Good design makes a product understandable
- Good design is not conspicuous or attracting attention
- Good design is honest
- Good design is long-lasting
- Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
- Good design is environmental-friendly
- Good design is as little design as possible
It’s no accident that this Braun calculator looks surprisingly similar to some features in the iPhone as Steve Jobs and his lead designer Jonathan Ive used to admire the products and design philosophy of Dieter Rams.
My Braun replica—a limited edition in white—comes from the Design Museum In London.
Building back better
2020/06/05 14:33
Winston Churchill once said:
Emptier weekends during COVID-19 outbreak gave me the ample opportunity to rethink, rewrite, and rebuild this site.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Emptier weekends during COVID-19 outbreak gave me the ample opportunity to rethink, rewrite, and rebuild this site.