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Parkopolo, Illustrator

Parkopolo

Illustrator

Parkopolo is the studio of Scottish illustrator Ed McGowan. I love the playful, colourful simplicity of his work and the way he often takes complex or political subjects and puts his unique slant on them.

🔗 instagram.com

Mov, Variable font

Mov

Variable font

Studio Feixen (featured in Issue 17) are back at it again, with this delightful, modular variable font they call Mov.

🔗 fonts.studiofeixen.ch

Dream Recorder, Open source hardware

Dream Recorder

Open source hardware

I love how wonderfully weird this project is. Dream Recorder is designed to do just that — it stores your dreams to playback and reflect on.

🔗 dreamrecorder.ai

I can't afford this but maybe she can, Collaborative curation

I can't afford this but maybe she can

Collaborative curation

My old friend Malika has been curating all sorts of brilliantly wonderful creations with her friend George Wu for a staggering (5!) years now.

🔗 instagram.com

Claude Code, AI coding assistant

Claude Code

AI coding assistant

Like seemingly everyone else I know who writes code, I am a huge fan of Claude Code from Anthropic.

🔗 anthropic.com

Ollama, Locally run LLMs

Ollama

Locally run LLMs

I sometimes get twitchy about how much data I'm sharing with a handful of US-based AI companies' models.

🔗 ollama.com

Screenshot of the Siteinspire website

Siteinspire

Web design showcase

I'm sure you all know of SiteInspire, but if for some reason you don't and you have an interest in web and UI, you should check it out.

🔗 siteinspire.com

Screenshot of Granola

Granola

AI notepad

I've been using Granola for months now and swear by it. If you have online or in person meetings and want them documented, it's really very useful, gathering conversations into actionable next steps and summaries.

🔗 granola.ai

Guy Billout, Artist

Guy Billout

Artist

I first encountered Guy Billout’s work back in the early 2000s and was immediately drawn to his surrealist off kilter perspective.

🔗 margarethe-illustration.com

Ableton Move, Portable music maker

Ableton Move

Portable music maker

Billed as a 'portable tool for intuitive music making', Move is Ableton's latest bit of hardware.

🔗 ableton.com

Orbit, Music discovery

Orbit

Music discovery

An experiment in music discovery from BBC R&D. Orbit gives you a novel interface to explore and uncover new music for yourself.

🔗 bbc.co.uk

Cosmos, Discovery engine

Cosmos

Discovery engine

Cosmos is a bookmarking and discovery app, sort of like Pinterest, but without the ads and twee craft projects.

🔗 cosmos.so

Sebastian Abboud, Illustrator & Designer

Sebastian Abboud

Illustrator & Designer

A nice burst of colour and optimism from illustrator, Sebastian Abboud.

🔗 sebastianabboud.com

Daylight, Computer

Daylight

Computer

Daylight has been out a while, but I realised I hadn't shared it here and should have.

🔗 daylightcomputer.com

Free Faces, Curated free fonts

Free Faces

Curated free fonts

A curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences. Useful for those times when paid fonts might not be an option.

🔗 freefaces.gallery

Sophie Smallhorn Book

Sophie Smallhorn: Works

Art Book

The brilliant Sophie Smallhorn, who featured way back in Issue 2 has a new art book out.

🔗 counter-print.co.uk

Splice logo

Splice

Audio sample library

I've recently got back into making music and not long ago, discovered Splice — an amazing app to help give your compositions a creative and quality boost.

🔗 splice.com

Quentin Monge, Artist

Quentin Monge

Artist

As the last days of summer fade away, take yourself back there with the beautiful work of artist, Quentin Monge.

🔗 instagram.com

Good Mood, Art Prints

Good Mood

Art Prints

Next time you're on the hunt for some prints to adorn your walls, you could do worse than having a flick through the stuff on Good Mood.

🔗 goodmoodprints.io

Pluck screenshot

Pluck

Audio experimentation

Pluck is a little interactive music visualiser by Murat Ayfer in which you see individual strings and notes played in time to music.

🔗 string.spiel.com

Record club logo

Record Club

Music discovery

A new way to discover and share music with friends. It's really good, but needs more folks I know on there!

🔗 record.club

TikTok Triptych, Music / Video

TikTok Triptych

Music / Video

Russell Davies has been constructing tracks entirely out of TikTok and they're very good.

🔗 russelldavies.typepad.com

Karan Singh, Visual artist

Karan Singh

Visual artist

Karan Singh is a visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia.

🔗 madebykaran.com

Music for Programming, Music

Music for Programming

Music

Not necessarily just for programming, this is the perfect audio accompaniment when you're working or in a period of deep focus.

🔗 musicforprogramming.net