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Patrick Altair 🌙

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Apr 13

Hey, I'm Patrick, a designer based in Vancouver that's into frontend code, animation and the web ✌️
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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · 11d

PlayStation are making a coffee table book of all their designs that never were. Looks sick. readonlymemory.com/pages/playst...

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · 23d

AMERIKA

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 23d

The design work of Hans Förtsch, his wife Sigrid von Baumgarten and Reinhart Braun for Radio Free Berlin in the 1960s designreviewed.com/the-publicit...

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · 23d

Very fun. Where does it start to breakdown? Tossing animation?

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · 25d

Panic should be just a super boring utility app maker but instead they do weird, great shit all the time 👏👏👏

Panic @panic.com · 26d

Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker.

The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.

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Leander Herzog @leanderherzog.ch · Jul 21

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great type and imagery. Book of poetry by Nahui Olin.

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Aug 13

Peow are so good at book jackets. Pre-ordered!

Peow2 @Nycc first time! @peow.bsky.social · Aug 13

🌕 NEW BOOK NEWS!!!!🎉

A GARDEN OF SPHERES by @decassette.bsky.social is unveiled today! WE ARE VERY EXCITED! The 336 page mega fantasy tome that has been in the works for the past years is now available for pre-order (along with bonus gift too!) 👀 peow.studio

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lauren gallagher @notexactly.bsky.social · Aug 7

👋 Looking for design work September-onward! Branding, web design & dev, packaging, ecom, publication—you name it. I have 10+ years experience working in-house, agency, and freelance.

Email [email protected] if you're interested in collaborating 🤝

lauren gallagher @notexactly.bsky.social · Apr 8

let's work together www.figma.com/deck/sW8rdPG...

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jul 26

A spread from “Sinclair Programs”, a magazine that shared BASIC software for readers to copy. Some of these go pretty hard. via @goodspeed.bsky.social casualarchivist.substack.com/p/full-spect...

A magazine page scan. It reads "Kingdom" at the top followed by a series of programming instructions for a game.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · Jul 17

Another 10/10 entry in Figma’s portfolio of features which look great but will make your web developer cry

Figma @figma.com · Jul 17

Let’s touch glass

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ahhh @grillitype.bsky.social, forever the masters of the typeface microsite (and also designing fonts I guess)

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 28

I just started playing DS1 after hearing DS2 was so good. And it’s fun and very polished to me (admittedly it’s the director’s cut which changes some of the landscape and missions). Makes me think the main problem with DS1 is people expected it’d be MGSV meets P.T. and it’s not.

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 27

We’re cooked.

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 26

“It was as visceral and overwhelming and biologically real” as falling in love with a person.

@sam-apple.bsky.social found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 14

Fontstand have a survey going right now for designers, you fill it out and get a bunch of free fonts from its members! Here's some experiments with some of them—Klim Type’s Maelstrom and Dynamo’s Whyte.

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 13

Kagi is like using a search engine when they were good. Instead of slop, summaries, or ads you get links. They give you 100 free searches to try it out then $5 a month after that. (Stumbled across it in a @davidpierce.xyz article I think?)
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Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · Jun 10

huge day on the frutiger aero subreddit

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 6

Whaaat? Scoundrels! Really surprising they don’t make that accessible to developers. Fingers crossed they open that up 🤞

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 5

Ah, I getcha. I guess 2x is an unusual case where it’s sort of a pseudo-lens, a crop but still 12MP (just don’t get the benefits of binning). Personally I use 2x the most but understand the dedication to the physical!

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 5

This focal length slider is incredibly satisfying to use 👌 Would love the option to have a 1.5x and 2x here—perhaps via settings? 35mm and 50mm always feels to me like _the_ camera focal lengths (and why I bothered getting the pro at all)

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 5

Witchcraft!

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 3

Not sure why bluesky is adding ambient cicada noise to the background of this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 3

Talia Cotton’s studio is always doing very cool shit on the web

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · Nov 24

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

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Patrick Altair 🌙 @patrickaltair.bsky.social · Jun 1

Also if you got any favourite scarf recommendations that’d be nice too. Currently looking at Drakes Mughal print ones. Good of you to save the cats!