Free inclusive design fest + Marvel vs fonts battle
To scale or not to scale? That is the entrepreneur question.
IN THE MARGINS
Scale! Automate! Optimize! Or not…
I have zero interest in running an agency or scaling out to a big team. Maybe in a few years but right now I’m all about going deeper than wider (hey, mind out the gutter! lol). I’d rather know myself and others better than know more people. I guess like a plant. I don’t need more leaves if my roots are good.
Social media, or at least the creative entrepreneur space, seems to assume, or enforce, that everyone MUST want to scale or move “up”. In Corporate America, it’s move up to C-Suite. In this space it seems to be move up to open an agency. Almost funneling you through this pipeline of creator/worker to manager to owner. Owner of people and processes and portfolio case studies.
This isn’t to shit on anyone who wants that pipeline. Maybe you want to grow taller, closer to the sun. Those big trees are quite majestic, I must admit. And hell, sometimes even I still consider if I want to be a Creative Services Manager instead of a designer. Or I wonder if Art Directing would be my jam. Those titles are in the creative ladder climb. But for me, those shifts… that growth… feels more… outward, not upwards... as if spreading my roots further out.
So take a moment to pause and think: what kind of plant would you want to be? 🌱
ACCESSIBILITY
Free 24-Hour Online 'Inclusive Design' Event
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour global online event (view schedule). It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between. No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Latinx Heritage Month Books
Latinx Heritage Month in the U.S. spans September 15–October 15 and recognizes the cultures, histories, and achievements of people of Latin American descent. To celebrate this year’s Latinx Heritage Month, Bookshop.org spotlighted some self-identified Latinx booksellers and asked them to recommend books! Check out the list
Yes, I know there's a debate about the term "Latinx" but since these people self-identified as such, we'll chat about that in another issue :)
ART & DESIGN
Real life GIFs
"Frame by Frame" is a physical, limited edition publication that uses lenticular holograms, stickers, and image flips to translate 35 pieces of new digital animation to the real world in surprising ways. each page includes a QR code to view the full animation on a smartphone.
Marvel Character or Font?
Fun little quiz to see if you can tell the difference. Let me know how you scored! ("Vibro" tripped me up haha)
Signing off from the Starship SBLTN,
Laneen (Pronouns: she/they)