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Eric Carl
@ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
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American designer and artist based in Berlin. Currently developing creative tools for music makers at Ableton. Previously, Art Direction and Graphic Design […] 🌉 bridged from https://merveilles.town/@ericcarl on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 23h
True https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115339124976068164
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Attached: 1 image One thing I miss about web designs from 25 years ago is the columns... in the mobile era, columns went extinct. saimasays.com in 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20011120010402if_/http://saimasays.com:80
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 3d
This weekend I published a page outlining a concept for a speculative vector graphics editing tool focused on geometric shapes. I had put this together a few years back as a hack sprint project at the day job, but never got around to sharing it elsewhere […]

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Screenshot of the interface of a desktop vector graphics editing tool. A toolbar is on the left, property panels on the right, and some geometric vector artwork is placed on the canvas in the middle.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6
Been playing with a design for the inventory screen in my lo-fi urban walking simulator. Mostly happy with it so far! The text in the lower left corner is a terminal-style feed that’s also visible when the inventory is closed. Seems like it should remain […]

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Mockup of an inventory screen for a computer game. It features a grid of 3D item thumbnails each rendered in a low-fidelity 3D wireframe style. Text elements on the screen use a monospaced typeface. The background of the screen is black and all foreground elements are grey.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2
Computer music makers — Live 12.3 beta available today: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/live-12-3-is-coming/. My team worked on a small but handy new feature — A/B compare of built-in instruments and effects. Hope you like comparing!
Ableton Live 12.3 is coming – with Stem Separation and more
Ableton Live 12.3 is now in public beta. See what’s new in the next update, free for all Live 12 users – and try it today.
www.ableton.com
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1
Managed some minor updates to my website: ericcarl.link. I mainly increased the max width (from around 1440 to 1920), which meant enlarging most images (and unfortunately increasing file sizes). I did also consider refactoring all my CSS, but resisted the urge. Still playing with some […]
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27
Modern digital product design leans way too heavily into autocomplete (as in, when you type and suggestions for what might come next are displayed). My friend (you, the computer), please anticipate my needs less, you are too often wrong.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25
When a room has a column in it, people tend to stand around it. Isn’t that interesting?
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21
I sometimes wonder if products that promote new features, events, etc., directly within the product aren’t fundamentally adversarial. You have the interests of the software maker, and the interests of the user, and it would seem they can easily conflict.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15
Classic https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115033018137576942
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Attached: 1 image Macromedia Dreamweaver on December 02, 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/19981202011445/http://www.macromedia.com:80/software/dreamweaver/
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15
Nameless King in Dark Souls 3 is going to be the end of me.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Aug 9
New module acquired (number four), Toppobrillo Multifilter 2. I was looking for something that could morph between filters, and the people at Schneidersladen (great shop and people) recommended this beauty. Nice packaging too!
Photograph of a small brown cardboard box containing a modular synthesizer module. The box is sealed with a green sticker labeled “MF2” in a geometric typeface and includes some additional nicely designed technical details. Photograph of a portion of a silver modular synthesizer rack with the aforementioned Toppobrillo Multifilter 2 module (black version) installed.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31
Just some rare noodling with the modular.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 19
[Slightly strange animated gif involving a toilet]

Yikes, I didn’t realize Mastodon converted gifs into compressed videos. That got properly trashed. Oh well, here’s the real thing: https://ericcarl.link/elsewhere/toilet-blue.gif.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 19
[Slightly strange animated gif involving a toilet]

Don’t mind me, just experimenting.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 18
Amazing https://mastodon.social/@kepano/114871343744754732
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No one knows how many users #Obsidian has I think it's around 5-10 million people but I'm not sure? Anyone can download the app and start using it without creating an account or talking to anyone, and there are no analytics built-in 🤷‍♂️
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15
I finally disabled autoplaying videos on all websites, and mostly it’s been great. That is, except for the frequent times now when websites that aren’t designed for it are awkwardly broken (mine included actually).
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 14
And I’m coming from the perspective of working on creative tools, where success metrics are more ambiguous. Compared to something like, a sales funnel, where line go up or down.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 14
There’s a common sentiment in UI design that even though a design change is an improvement, users might still react negatively simply because it’s a change. Something like “give it time, they’ll get used to it”. And while this is often true, it can also backfire, because users can get used to a […]
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 13
I rather like screens actually. They’re kinda like paper, except they’re interactive. That’s pretty useful!
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11
Mona (for Mastodon, @MonaApp) — a good app.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9
Still appreciating the design and colors of iOS game Eliss, originally released in 2009. Unfortunately rather difficult to find images and information about it these days, save for the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliss
Various colorful screenshots of the iOS game Eliss. Each screen consists of circles of various sizes and pastel colors (yellow, pink, purple, blue) against a black background.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 7
SizeUp has been one of my all time favorite little Mac apps. I really only use it to resize and center the active window via keyboard shortcut, but that action has become deeply ingrained in my everyday computer life. https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Irradiated Software - SizeUp - The Missing Window Manager
SizeUp allows you to quick resize and position your windows with shortcuts
www.irradiatedsoftware.com
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 3
Very nice work: https://perronetfreres.fr
Detail photograph of the opening of a geometric bright orange book case enclosure. Slightly abstract detail photograph of an opening of a stark grey office desk, focusing on electrical sockets. Photograph of a minimal metal storage box, with a motion blur composite illustrating how one stacks on to another. Detail photograph of a geometric wood working joinery mechanism of wooden shelves.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jul 1
More recent fun with the Ricoh.
3/4 perspective photograph of the front of a nondescript office building with two rows of windows and concrete planter. A small sign indicates the existence of a security camera, with said security camera visible in the top right corner of the composition. Photograph of an ambiguous geometric interior/exterior space. The left side includes a small stairway towards a door, while the right side includes a support pillar. Outdoor light spilling into the center of the photo indicates the space exists outside, while most is in shadow. Outdoor photograph of a sidewalk leading into a small gravel area next to a park. Bright sunlight creates harsh shadows and a rich blue sky. A sign amongst bushes and trees indicating the speed limit is located on the left side of the image. A photograph looking upwards at a large window on the side of a dark brown office building. Overcast light blankets the scene, while the window reflects a blue sky. Green foliage frames the bottom of the image. Part of the window is slightly open.
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Eric Carl @ericcarl.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · Jun 29
I miss this website. https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/114767203523444952
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Attached: 1 image k10k.net on June 15, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20040615193213if_/http://k10k.net:80
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