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Open on pdx.social Louie Mantia, Jr.Parakeet:
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Designer • Artist • ダイナマイトボイス™ @parakeet • @junior • @crown • @magicpassport
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 I don’t think it’s possible but one day I would like to figure out how to get people to engage with my artwork beyond the content of it. I know I draw a lot of pop culture things. And I know when I draw a NES controller icon there’s an urge someone might have to say what their favorite NES game is. But— that’s not really related to what I’ve drawn, is it? It’s so rare that anyone actually comments about the iconography. The artistry. The design, the assembly, the process, the ...anything. Apple keeps saying AI saves you time but so far every task that involves AI takes longer than before. The only reason it could take a shorter amount of time is if you’re satisfied with the result the first time. If you’re not, you’ve already wasted time. I’m tired of Apple advertising this is a productivity booster. It’s not! It’s not even that! Websites everywhere will either continue to use the Twitter logo in their footer lineup of social network icons, or they’ll decide to remove it. It’s a great opportunity for basically everyone to re-evaluate. Everyone’s gonna have to think about it for at least a moment. And I bet a ton of people will just remove it.  @louie One of our local high schools has a LED sign out front that cycles through announcements, and as long as I've been seeing it, one of them has been "Follow us on Twitter" featuring the original logo, white stroke and all. Twitter's unstable owner has an uphill battle ahead of him. There’s this... thing that happens, over and over again. A trope. When an engineer or designer leaves a big tech company to start their own thing, they feel some kind of urge to distance themselves from that big company. They make statements in an effort to convince others that the way that big company is doing things is actually bad. It’s hard not to read it like: “That stuff I worked on for the last 15 years? That isn’t what I believe in.” But why did you work on it then? They want to accept praise and accolades for the work they’ve done, but don’t want to accept the responsibility of creating the very thing they are now criticizing. It is the same thing. You have to own it. You see it with people who leave Facebook to make a new social networking site. They tell you this time it will be different. That this time, they’re actually working for good. That begs the question: were they not working for good before?
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Gregory's Server
No one ever dives into asking about color or commenting on how to handle translucent objects when you can’t rely on blend modes. No one asks about inspiration or talks about how I get from idea to final execution. How to make ICNS files? Or what the difference between two different 512x512 assets are. I’ve basically never heard anyone ask me about recoloring icons and which method works best.
It’s always a surface-level response. I don’t know how to change that. Or if I can.