Digest #52 — Community links, new jobs, top posts!
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A bi-weekly recap of interesting links we've hand-picked from community profiles. Want to see more? Check out our Front Page!
Slow Night
Nothing to yawn at.. these low-key art events hosted by Isabelle Santiago are deliberately designed to help perpetual beginners rediscover the balancing power of visual art + creative self-expression!
Sent You a Song
Hear, hear! Jane Ling has fine-tuned a website for you to send songs to your friends (and discover a new jam or two..)
fontguessr
Fun for the entire family. Test your skills, figure out your type, and review some type anatomy basics with Elizabeth Lin’s wonderful Google Fonts-based game!
Living Digital Archives
How might we capture the tension between a lost past and a distant future? Christopher Ha explores this idea In the context of modern web frameworks with Olia Lialina + Dragan Espenschied’s generative archive of deleted websites.
ShaderGradient
Seungmee Lee and Yongmin Ruucm are gradually changing the game! Create beautiful, moving gradients with this new tool available on Figma, Framer, and as a React component.
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Delivering the latest in recent Posts activity straight to your inbox. If you like what you see, stop by the feed for more!
Big thank you to Chris Masterson for bringing Post’s new icon to fruition (and shoutout to Daniel Klopper and Raghav Agarwal for some funky remixes!)
No end in site! Check out the latest versions of Ana Malai, Joonseo Chang, Sneha Sankar, Peter Lewis, Reza Radityo, Mohamed Noor, Danilo Ra, Jon Hargreaves, Christopher Ha, Anton Sten, Sang Lee, Haneen Mahdin, Elly Ayling, Antonija Pek, Francesco Imola, and Tim Ritter’s portfolios.
The tote.town population is booming, and Namika Hamasaki, Charlsy Yang, Seungmee Lee, and Spencer Bittle are securing their bag..
Marian Park, Raffi Chilingaryan, Raymond Dean, Myles Palmer, Hongmin Park, Ell Maki, Alex Carpenter, Roger Kemp, Simon Riisnæs Dagfinrud, Lichin Lin, Chia Amisola, Michał Duda, Mátyás Czél, Kenneth Dsouza, and Laura Eddy have put the work in (and it shows!)
No need to picture it - Nicole Kwan, Spencer Bittle, Oskar Szulc, Ana Malai, Jared Sager, Berkay Sargın, Larissa Oh, Thu Le, Saša Čečavac, Francesco Imola, Dave Snyder, Guglielmo Pardo, Toni Romero, Cindy Wu, Mohamed Ouyizme, James Sann, Shirley Wu, Sang Lee, and Marc Castbury already have!
Alright, we’ll bite.. Baruch Pi, Andy Allen, Abhijit Das, Leland Foster, Justin Salsburey, Thomas Rene, Bobby Anderson, Suganth Sengottuvelappan, AB Baldonado, and Spencer Bittle cut to the core of the latest Apple announcements.
The energy is electrifying.. Facundo Matiaude, Emiliano Carrillo, Milana Ruzic, Katie Cooper, Kevin Harris, Shirley Wu, Noah Conk, Carol Chan, and San Chung plug into an incredible range of creative outlets!
Trust the process - Luis Martinez, Dalton Downing, Jon Hargreaves, Alice Zhang, Justin Edmund, Caspian Ievers, and Ben Libor have got quite a few fun projects in store.
Don’t read too much into it.. it’s clear that Sarah J. Coleman, Drew Fagin, Raymond Dean, Milana Ruzic, Robert Floyd, Nicolas Prieto are booked and busy!
In a sketchy mood? Draw inspiration from these lovely illustrations by Hannah Lee, Andreans Escobar, Mason Watson, David Luft, Kiruthiga Durai, Orlando Ruiz, Miguel Avila, Arthur Lambillotte, and Jenny Chu!
Write on! David Mendes, Katie Cooper, Jenny Chu, Nikhil Sethi, Karl Koch, James William, Marian Park, Brian Sholis, Itay Dreyfus have some thoughts to share..
Who’s Hiring
Psst.. are you hiring? Reach over 100k designers, engineers, and product people by posting a job listing on read.cv!
TipTop Labs
Join this highly ambitious team of 12 and help bring modern software and technology layers to the world of e-commerce and logistics as their second product designer!
1 open role - Product Designer based in LA/SF/NYC/Seattle, onsite/remote (anywhere)
Attio
Work on building a radically new type of CRM and translate Attio's visual style into their web surfaces and brand identity!
1 open role - Visual Designer based in London, onsite/remote (Europe)
Capsule
Make an enormous impact on Capsule’s product and collaborate directly with their founders to build and manage all motion design systems for their customers!
1 open role - Sr Motion/Systems Designer, remote (EST/PST ideal)
Work & Co
Create original digital products + services that reignite industries and reshape companies that rarely approach outside firms!
1 open role - Senior Designer based in Copenhagen, onsite
Inngest
A fun and challenging role - solve long standing developer problems in a novel way and help create first-of-it's-kind user interfaces and experiences!
1 open role - Product Designer, remote (Americas + Western Europe)
Monogram
Make the web faster and help build high-quality websites and web applications using composable architecture that outperforms legacy websites!
3 open roles based in Atlanta/Alpharetta, onsite/remote (±3 hrs EST ideal)
Raster
Want to help build the future of photography? Join Raster in building out their powerful, next-gen photo manager for teams!
1 open role - Senior SvelteKit Developer based in Atlanta, onsite/remote (±2hrs EST preferred)
Vizcom
Help shape cutting-edge creative design tools and transform abstract concepts into tangible UI visuals that help redefine the way people interact with design!
1 open role - Interaction Designer based in SF, onsite/remote (Western hemisphere)
Amie
If there’s anything more coveted than an Amie invite, it’s probably a spot on their incredibly talented team. Try your luck and you might just end up with both!
1 open role - Design Engineer, remote
Rodeo
Join Hinge’s former COO, CPO and mobile leads and an early AMZN + FB engineer on their new fully funded consumer social mission!
1 open role - Lead Product Designer based in NYC, onsite/remote
Limbic
As the only AI mental health decision support tool with a UKCA Class IIa certification, Limbic is on a mission to augment clinical care and reduce barriers to accessing therapy at scale!
1 open role - Product Designer based in London, onsite/remote (Europe)
Valley
This team is building an AI SDR that can book meetings on LinkedIn and email for 10x less than hiring an agency or human SDR!
2 open roles - Head of Product and Head of Engineering/CTO based in NYC, remote (EST overlap)
Tote bags available!
We decided to do some house keeping this week and clear out some of the extra tote bags in the studio. We put them up for sale on tote.town (thank you Shen for the amazing website design and build!) where you can buy one for $35, with $5 domestic or $10 international shipping! The bags are illustrated by Adam Eastburn and printed by Poppy Press in San Diego on 15oz heavy weight cotton totes by Enviro Tote.
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