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- Nairn2
Received file from client, designers, and the vertical alignment on three lines of text is [to my mind] off. O should slightly overhang a vertical guide aligning the justification, right? Especially if the other two lines have hard-edges letters, as here.
I tried pinching it over a half mill and it looks much better.
Do i tell them? I mean, usually I would - but in 2020 I'm trying to be less of a twat.
- The subtleties of optical alignment will be lost on them. If they ever go somewhere other than you then there product will end up looking crappierGnash
- And they’ll regret going somewhere cheaperGnash
- So don’t tell themGnash
- You should tell them, they might appreciate your craftsmanship. It's usually a good thing to come off as that crazy designer guy that notices all the detailszarkonite
- the others don't... gives the client confidence in your decisions.zarkonite
- next thing you know they're running other people's work by you just to be sure and BOOM you're a designer director ;)zarkonite
- THEY'RE GOING WITH MY ADVICE.
I GOT TO PLAY DESIGNER FOR 3½ MINUTES.Nairn - Bravo, sir, bravo!Continuity
- mg330
Don't know if any of you are in the market for a new TV, but my old one went out Friday (was a 64" 2011 Samsung plasma that the previous owners left in the house we bought a few years ago). I got a new one this weekend and got the Samsung Frame QLED, and being a fan of aesthetically pleasing electronics I'm really happy with how slim it is and how flush it is to the wall. It looks like a picture frame, and the bonus of the "Art Mode" is honestly pretty cool. When the TV is in standby mode, it dims itself and displays a selected photo or painting that in daytime looks pretty realistic, and not backlit and bright as if you were watching TV. It's the first 4k TV I've had with stuff that can actually stream in 4k; I miss the quality of the plasma screen but 4k is pretty impressive all around.
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- < Not my house. Just a pic off the Samsung site.
https://www.samsung.…mg33 - The Frame has been on my radar since its release a few years ago. we just finished a 2yr refurbishment and still kitting place out...microkorg
- ... when it comes to TV this is still the one I want. It's either going to sit on its own or in beside lots of other framed prints so it's fully disguised...microkorg
- ...Great to hear such positive feedback about it first hand though rather than just from randoms on JohnLewis website ;)microkorg
- Particularly with regards to the quality of the art mode. We've not had a TV in the house for nearly 3 years. Dont want our kids relying on a big black box...microkorg
- ... as a pacifier or way to spend time but do miss a big screen to watch movies on so this is closest we'll get to an invisible TV.microkorg
- < Not my house. Just a pic off the Samsung site.
- garbage1
So I had a shit weekend. Here goes the comedy of errors, mind the mess.
I retired an old drafting table that is too stained and sliced to be of use to me anymore. Probably had it for a decade or so. I broke it down, and was going to take it to Goodwill over the weekend.
Friday morning: I break my foot.
So I spent the entire weekend bored as fuck, hibernating on the couch. At some point on Sunday afternoon I'm dozing off with a bag of frozen corn on my foot, my dog sleeping on my chest, some edibles in my stomach, and the little robo vacuum was just purring away. It was peaceful.
So while I was soaking in the solace, the little robo vacuum had apparently been bumping into the aforementioned, disassembled drafting table, and eventually knocked it over. A bunch of metal goes to the floor, scaring the shit out of my dog. He hits full panic mode, his claw finds the inside of my nostril, and I wake up to a massive nosebleed.
Word to the wise: Don't break your feet, and avoid cuts to the inside of your nose. One leads to ambulatory problems, and the other leads to days of bloody boogers.
Fuck's sake.
- HOW DID YOU BROKE Your foot? How can you not tell us. Story 101Bennn
- Bike wreck. Driver cut me off on a morning ride, had to take a dive or get run over.garbage
- I had about 40lbs of camera gear in my bag, so when I went down I was trying to protect that. Fell very awkwardly.garbage
- I wish you a quick recovery sirBennn
- Thanks bud. It won't be too bad, was just hoping to go camping this weekend.garbage
- ouch! what a weekend... take careOBBTKN
- Thank you, you as well.garbage
- Sorry about the foot, but what about the camera gear - did you save it???stoplying
- Oh yeah. 2 options: Get hit by a probably drunk driver or dart to the curb. Foot got caught in my pedal strap so I fell flat on purpose to save my gear.garbage
- Khurram-5
I can't tell the difference between yuekit and utopia. They appear to be the same people to me and their opinions, jokes and comments are utterly interchangeable.
I have no idea which is which and over the years on this forum I have been unable to distinguish them as separate entities.
- Why bother typing that out if you haven't bothered to notice the difference over the last decade or wherever?Fax_Benson
- And why did you bother typing that out when you could just fuck off?Khurram
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- not sure about this one. can tell em apart easily. utopian even has his own 'innovation!' meme on this site.inteliboy
- yuekit used to be ukit. Vowels looks like shapes to me :-/Khurram
- wait - inteliboy and ideaist two different people as well??? :OKhurram
- utopian can poop his initial u, but yuekit can't poop a y. That's the difference.robotron3k
- i can't even begin to imagine how you've arrived at this conclusion.Nairn
- Well you're not me then are you Ewan.Khurram
- and it's not a "conclusion," smartass. EWAN.Khurram
- yuekit actually have conversation with people. Utopian communicates in headline and slogans... i couldn't get a read on him at all lolpango
- That's funny. I like utopian...he mailed me a T shirt once. Having said that, I am pretty sure I am not him (unless I mailed it to myself).yuekit
- Ok, they have very similar political views and both hate this robotron character, and, and,... "you" sound in their name :-/. I'll pay attention in teh future.Khurram
- I like them both!Khurram
- i used to think they were mg33 as well. You're all the same to me!Khurram
- whatever Khurram...or should I say...beeswax? :)_niko
- haha, that's actually funny because my name is Turkic in origin ;)) (even though i'm not)Khurram
- Just for the record I'm Asian and "yuekit" is a Chinese name...you should be confusing me with pango not utopian.yuekit
- I'm not racialist. I just see the shape of the vowels of the sounds and your similar opinions. i thought ukit was like some Apple thing? like a "kit"- ukit/ikitKhurram
- Plus i thought pango was actually Chinese? Broken english, pronounces "r" as "w" - "so sowwy Indy! I no touch anything!" - no???Khurram
- "He no mad, he cwazy!" - pangoKhurram
- https://media0.giphy…pango
- Woah que pendejo...robotron3k
- Khurram. Are you drunk again?pango
- Khurram just downed another edible, time to board the plane dude..yuekit
- Utopian = Fartcanoe
- none of them are me, just sayin'monospaced
- OMG it was fucking joke. As if your eye shape or skin tone has anything to do with anything. Lighten the fuck up.Khurram
- Here's another joke "me love you long time!" - pangoKhurram
- No idea of irony or satire if it smacks you in the face. Dumb cunt.Khurram
- You literally said "you should confuse me and pango cos we're asian." You're not fucking Asian, any more than i'm indian. He's Canadian, you're AmericanKhurram
- The amount of "chinky" pango memes that get posted around here - "You been pango'd" - haha, with that fat chinese dude's face! Cos they all look same!Khurram
- Someone outside your little clique makes that joke - satirising you - "oh no! that's a bit dangerous! don't know how to feel about that!" MoransKhurram
- That's why i left this shit place. DumbassKhurram
- Good bye :)
You're not a racist. You're just an asspango - What's worst than ass is getting mad at being an ass. What else would you expect. Getting a praise?pango
- You're like those shitty twitter comedian getting mad at people not laughing at your joke. Admit it, you suck at making jokes.pango
- Hey - pango - sorry i offended you. I guess you don't really know me. But i ain't going anywhere :P xKhurram
- And it's "what's WORSE than ass" not worst. kthxbaiKhurram
- Actually it's "what's worse than BEING an ass" omg you DO have an accent! aha!Khurram
- ya was on phone dont care.pango
- "You're like those shitty twitter comedianS" - with an "s"Khurram
- Khurram no one is offended, relax. If anything you seem to have offended yourself over the course of this thread ;)yuekit
- ok thanks that's reassuring lol xxxxKhurram
- Believe me - i was playing along with all those "pango" memes that get posted. It misfired, cos i'm an outsider. Apologies *bows*Khurram
- lol thx for the correction. but again on phone, dont care.pango
- i guess you missed all the times i throw shades at those borderline racist joke. And some of the jokes are actually funny.pango
- i dunno, go lean h9ow to make mildly offensive joke with out actually offend people?pango
- No pango. I think you've seen me post in other people's threads. Decided that I'm a troll. And now regard every post i make through that lens. Which is a shame.Khurram
- I just been told my yuekit that no one is offended so i dunno what you're talking about ;)Khurram
- ukit on the other hand, has seen my posting history going back a decade, and knows where i'm coming from.Khurram
- But that's what happens when you leave and come back. all the time. No one gets you. Ewan Nairn, on the other hand, has been riding by jockstrap for 12 years.Khurram
- Whatever his problem is. Irrelevant cunt.Khurram
- stop victimizing yourself. if i've decide your a troll. i would have started my first note differently.pango
- right //ENDTHREAD.Khurram
- You've barely been here these 12 years, Kuz. Only balls I hang off are Yuekit's, in the music threads. Which I've done for more than a decade. *clings*Nairn
- For the record, “you got pango’d” had nothing to do with being Asian. Pango had boasted in a thread about poop-bombing his boss’s bathroom.Gnash
- XDpango
- omahadesigns5
Sometimes I feel like no one is actually happy.
- We are too spoiled. Where is my damn Avocado toast?NBQ00
- It's not a 'modern times' thing either.Hayzilla
- maybe they're just not sharing their happy moment with you?pango
- Most of your friends married?canoe
- I'm not, but I also don't care. Happiness is overrated, temporary joys are where it's at.garbage
- maybe it's a reflection of your own feelings.ben_
- I support garbage. Tread water and hold on to hope for the occasional glimpse of land and or mermaids.misterhow
- I’m okshapesalad
- There's some basic ingredients to happiness. I think the biggest one is being able to imagine a future that's better than what you've got right now.yuekit
- Another big one is variety, not doing anything the same shit every day. If you're getting older and stuck in a dead end job, you can start to understand whyyuekit
- a lot of people aren't happy.yuekit
- And of course basic health stuff, which modern work life also actively fights against.yuekit
- Social media is fucking up a lot of people. The life of the others always seems to be so much better than ours.Bennn
- Living a joyful life is the secret to be able to focus on happiness when it happens. Happiness is not a constant, it's a moment.timeless
- I'm happy.monospaced
- I'm happy as well.exador1
- I'm an emotional creatureMaaku
- How fucked up life is:
I was thinking about this on the way home.
How relative happiness is, and that in overall I'm actually happysted - When I got home my mother sent me a message. My friend jumped out of the 9th floor they don't know that he survived or not. right now i'm not happy at all.sted
- “Life is a comedy to those who think; but a tragedy to those who feel.” Racine (or Moliere, I think)BustySaintClaire
- I'm pretty fucking happy.zarkonite
- Happiness is a feeling in a moment, not a constant stateKrassy
- existence is sufferingjaylarson
- whoa! Good luck sted, thats fucked upBennn
- yeah, what really sux is that they are far away to do anything. i'm still digesting, and gotta back to wrk in 3 hours. :| Krassy is right.sted
- sorry to hear, sted :( tragicKrassy
- Can't be happy all the time. The mind has evolved that way. But try to chill. Practice gratitude. It requires daily practicenb
- He is ALIVE!% oh man 9th floor and the same tree slowed him down what saved our cats life 10 years ago after falling from the 6th floor.sted
- https://i.imgur.com/…
sorry for the shite pics my mother made it :)sted - @sted! WOW! incredible!Krassy
- misterhow0
When did this become a thing?
- I'm sure some hip hop stylist out there did it two years ago and it's just catching on.i_monk
- We did this 30 years ago when we didn't want them flying around while riding bikes or when it was windy. It's not a trend, it's just a thing.monospaced
- You should go around untying every one of these you see. Problem solved.ben_
- i_monk3
Post-move, now six minutes door to door.
Hate my new desk, hate the open concept, but I can be home by 5:06.
- that's a winmonospaced
- Time is the best perk one can have/getmisterhow
- Dream life. Can you buy yourself a new desk?nb
- The changes to desks and the overall layout are not popular, so there's a good chance it will change in time.i_monk
- Does anyone actually like open plan??!!shapesalad
- /\ Not me. Want my office back - the new building we're going to is all open concept too.ben_
- nobody likes open planmonospaced
- NBQ000
Does anyone know how to properly design and export stuff for all browsers so that colors displayed all the same on every browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox)?
The colors look more muted in Safari than much more saturated colors in Firefox.
I don't think it should be messed with settings in browsers as it's default settings and pretty much all users have default settings on.
The question is just how to export stuff (if even possible) so it appears same or similar on all browsers?
- Turn off hardware acceleration on all your browser settingsrobotron3k
- Tag your files with an sRGB profile. Guide: https://cameratico.c…zarkonite
- and test: https://cameratico.c…zarkonite
- Also, with the web you really should design for all viewing conditions instead of just designing for a rare best case scenario.zarkonite
- web safe colors?grafician
- Gardener2
My radio station are currently looking for a fresh slogan,
any suggestions gratefully received. It is Milton Keynes longest
running voluntary radio station (broadcasting since 1979)
CRMK used to stand for Cable Radio MK in the pre-internet days
but now the all members can't agree on what the C stands for!
There is no prize or money but many kudos if your idea is chosen.- CRMK
"If you squint, it looks like a swear word"Nairn - "No Dons, just chavs. That's the power of CRMK."zarb0z
- "More fun for your punk rock pound."zarb0z
- "We're the reason the EU kicked us out. Sincerely, CRMK."zarb0z
- "Crmk it up!"zarb0z
- "Wow, hey, cool! Ok? Since 1979"Nairn
- C for Cyber?renderedred
- C Y B E R A D I O M Krenderedred
- Cyber is one of the better suggestions so far cheers!Gardener
- Get CRMK'd!robotron3k
- Maybe look for a new font too.shapesalad
- Cooper Black might be good upgraderobotron3k
- Vote for "Crmk it up!"DRIFTMONKEY
- It's a bummer that it doesn't take after your name, because Gardner could lend itself to a load of possibilities.garbage
- "CRMK" sounds like somebody shoving a bunch of styrofoam into an already overfilled trash can.garbage
- "CRMK: Stuffing Styrofoam into Crowded Cans Since 1979."garbage
- "CRMK, we play music!"eryx
- Come Ride My KangarooBustySaintClaire
- 1 vote for don't change it. Just like vinyl, Cable Radio will eventually come back into fashion and you'll be cool as fuck.ben_
- "Not Your Baby's Podcast"caterpus
- Cash Rules everything around Milton Keynes...get the money dolla dolla bill ya'll_niko
- CUNT RADIO?NBQ00
- community radio mk?MrT
- ahh yeah that's the one they are trying to get away from - good suggestions so far, thank youGardener
- Lol @busty
How about "Come Round My Karzy"?garbage - THAT is brilliant garbage - they'll never use it though!Gardener
- Mindfuck, I see the graphic and my brain wants to make a CMYK out of it.SimonFFM
- Crush Radio Milton Keynesspunji
- who are "they"?drgs
- management, it's always managementGardener
- Cool Radio Milton Kenyes!
...we're like, totally hip and radical!Projectile - codgers radio milton keyneshans_glib
- ^ curmudgeonGnash
- Casbah radio.
Crash...
Crave...Gnash - thanks for your tips guys, I will pass them on!Gardener
- Ok Boomer™_niko
- I'm pretty sure it's CMYKmisterhow
- Play It, Baby!adrok
- CRMK
- autoflavour2
Dog wrestling on Monday almost broke my thumb..
X-ray came back clear today, but still have limited movement.
opposable digits are useful- They take forever to heal up properly.ben_
- https://i.imgur.com/…GuyFawkes
- Dog wrestling ??Bennn
- ^ I'm confused tooMaaku
- No cock fights?helloeatbreathedrive
- or did you forgot punctuation:
"Dog, wrestling on monday"
and you're calling us 'dog' ?Bennn - He was wrestling with his dogdrgs
- Gardener1
found this cool little record sleeve, sold with a piece of gum
in the shape of a record - sadly eaten but this is only 2" square
- Khurram0
I hate being back in England. Especially, the north. Dark miserable place. Then I look at the weather in Montreal and it's -13. Fuck that!
Looking forward to my flight on Tuesday... just sit it out. Don't go mad. :-/
- *slowly going mad*Khurram
- Fuck, it’s cold in Montreal. I don’t know how Bennn does itGnash
- He heats himself up by burning the money he saves on his Adobe subscription.Nairn
- HahahaGnash
- I don't know how anyone does it :-/. Best city in the world May - November. And then that's it lolKhurram
- Yup. And no rights on a red, tabernac!Gnash
- Montreal is coolcanoe
- Alas, it is. Despite the snowGnash
- I dunno, I'd take the snow and cold there over the slushy bullshit that the GTA has to offer.ben_
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- It’s grim up north eh?Chimp
- 5 Northernmost Capitals of the World – Reykjavik, Helsinki, Oslo, Tallinn and Stockholm. stop yer' whining ;DArchitectofFate
- The time I lived in MTL ... ugh, winter is fucking murder there, even worse than in the Maritimes.Continuity
- oh how saad :( here is something to warm you up:
https://www.youtube.…
hashass ahahahasted - lol we'Re going on -27C this evening and -23C for the day tomorrow :)Bennn
- And we'Re currently in a snowstorm. We're supposed to receive around 50cm of snow.Bennn
- When you're born here, you're used to it.Bennn
- These notes deliver.ideaist
- Meanwhile in the north of England, https://www.youtube.…i_was
- I'll let you guys know when I'm on that beach in the Philippines. In the meantime, you can let these notes dies. ThanksKhurram
- PS - I can fucking handle 1-2 months of the Montreal winter. But 6 months of this shit. You can fuck off!Khurram
- PPS - Is around 0-3c in a suburb of leeds right now. That can fuck off too.Khurram
- Is there a temperature that would make Leeds bearable?Gnash
- 100,000,000°CNairn
- Lol_niko
- HaGnash
- canoe3
Be thankful you/I/we do something we love
- utopian1
Any recommendations for an illustrator/designer that can create a "mascot" for a company?
Kind of like these.
- https://www.qbn.com/…PonyBoy
- http://www.meomi.com…ben_
- Meomi's work were the only thing i like during the Vancouver olympic.pango
- She’s good people, was a housemate with her a long long time ago.ben_
- PonyBoy2
I just found out that my dog has an Instagram account... she's amassed 57 followers so far.
- ben_1
This 2018 macbook pro... Freeze, "whoooosh", crash.
over and over and over again.
IT dept: "try installing Catalina"
Gets to end of 8gb download, crashes again, reboots and picks up at 500mb. Repeat the process 3 times with the same result.
IT dept: "try one more time please"
- innovation never freezesutopian
- No for god sakes do not install Catalina!robotron3k
- Possibly T2 chip or GPU issue. These 2018 models were prone to freeze, then fans go crazy for a moment and restarts and freezes again.NBQ00
- That’s exactly what’s happening.ben_
- Just call Apple ffs. Fuck IT.monospaced
- Is Catalina still a shit show?MrT
- yesBonSeff
- Bennn12
LIVE from my window
- #foreveralonested
- this is my carBennn
- hahahahahhahahahahah...Khurram
- Toyota?OBBTKN
- yeaBennn
- I miss snow, send a bit here... Today, 17°C and sunny, sure you think it's good, it's good yeah, but not for working locked all day in front of your monitors!OBBTKN
- Enjoy mate!!OBBTKN
- Wouldn't mind 4-5 days of that. Appreciate it must get a bit much after a couple of months.Fax_Benson
- It's been like that since NOVEMBER - you guys no nothing! ;PKhurram
- Winter Wonderland. So pretty!Krassy
- The worst part is digging out your parking spot and then some other fucker uses itGnash
- exactly, but its normal;y pretty easy on my streetBennn
- HA!pango
- Record rain checking in. I would take snow over a month of mid-30s rain / sleet.garbage
- Not entirely convinced this is live, its been dusk now for 32 hours.webazoot
- hee hee webazootNairn
- do you guys have snow emergencies up there? here in mn, after a snow, they alternate which side of the road you can park on to plowjaylarson
- ^ there are plenty of ‘snow routes’ that need to remain clear on snow daysGnash
- it take the city 1 to 2 weeks to clean up the snow after a snowstorm, its not my street turn yet, probably in 2-3 daysBennn
- in the meantime its chaotic parking in the streetsBennn
- sleeper https://www.youtube.…timeless
- Nairn0
A line from an email to a client that I've just sent, which reading it back slightly tickled me for how stupidly inane it is.
"the dots would indeed present themselves as dots."
- Bennn3
LIVE from my window
- some wild animal is playing with the camsted
- Your neighbour is back home, get a six pack and go visit him/herOBBTKN
- And, I'm sorry for your carOBBTKN
- Waiting for the next instalment.thumb_screws