Javier Arce

Javier Arce

Design/Code/Illustration in Barcelona

About

Working wonders with wile, whimsey, and wit.

Side Projects

2024

Find out which Bluesky lists and starter packs you're on

2024

An Obsidian plugin that lets you publish content from Obsidian to Are.na and the other way around.

2024

Type Simulator offers an easy way for anyone to enhance their typesetting skills. It exposes users to a range of real-life scenarios where typing might occur, such as on board a ship, in a dark, misty forest, under the influence of mind-altering psychedelic drugs, or in zero-gravity environments

2023

A collection of drawings I've created over the years.

2023

'A Walking Poem' writes psychogeographical poems using real Google Maps directions from your current location to a random place around you.

2023

Poetry Slash 3 Open Call

Poetry Slash is a recital of computational literature whose third edition will take place on Friday, April 28 at La Casa Encendida (Madrid).

Participants will read texts produced through code with the intention of exploring unconventional forms of literary creation and doing wonderful and crazy things with computers.

If you are reading this and are into creative coding, natural language processing, literature, and poetry, open poetryslash.com and send your proposal before April 14.

2022

A tool for creating web slideshows with Figma and keeping them in sync automatically.

2022
Dale

Generate DALL·E 2-like images without an invite. Without AI. Without writing a prompt. Without waiting for the process to finish. Without wasting electricity or emitting CO2. Just drag and drop an image and let the most advanced technology (well, JavaScript) do the rest.

2022

A tool that sends you articles and posts from Feedbin directly into your Kindle.

2021

Update your Twitter avatar and banner from the comfort of Figma.

2021

A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots.

2020

Send your Kindle's highlights and notes to Are.na

2020

A bot that looks at @artnau and tweets what it sees.

2019

My (silly) illustration portfolio that uses Figma as CMS.

2019

Make maps with your homies… or enemies

2019

A terrible type foundry

2015

Makes your tab disappear when nobody is paying attention.

Work Experience

2018 — 2021
Senior Product Designer at NTT Data
Madrid
2016 — 2019
Teacher at IED Madrid
2017 — 2018
2014 — 2017
2011 — 2014

Contact

Tumblr
Are.na
GitHub
Instagram
Twitter

Teams

Current
automattic.design