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Travis Jeans
@futurehorizondesign.net.au
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He/him. 🏳️‍⚧️ Graphic design, illustration, and web design. Interested in web accessibility, open source software, and the indie web.
Website: futurehorizondesign.net.au
#accessibility #graphicdesign #illustration #indieweb #a11y #vegan
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Submitted an entry to the Inkscape vector challenge for November which is to make a mandala. This one is inspired by First Nations artwork.

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#graphicdesign #illustration #FOSS #linux #inkscape #illustrator #freelance #brisbane #mastoart #flora #australia
A mandala featuring organic patterns of a sunflower in the middle, dots and squiggles, gumtree leaves and pods, wattle flowers and leaves, and banksia in the outer rings. The outermost ring has sequential lines and dot patterns with concentric yellow circles above the banksia flower and green, marroon, ochre, and beige surrounding it. The mandala has a brown background, using colours of green, pink, yellow, beige, and maroon.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I made two CSS themes. Nebula I and II are simple, minimalist, and classless themes that look like Gemtext from the Project Gemini web protocol.

There's a blue and red theme.

Repo: codeberg.org/travis-jeans...

#opensource #accessibility #a11y #smallweb #geminiprotocol #indieweb #webdev #codeberg
Nebula I Dark Mode Nebula I Light Mode light blue diamond-shaped vector stars over a dark blue background
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I wrote some first impressions of the new Affinity app. The main things I noticed were the app icons are harder to read and the app crashes on startup for me.

Good news: you can have V2 and V3 installed side-by-side.

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#affinity #graphicdesign #uidesign
Launching Affinity. Your Canva sign-in what successful. You may now close this window and get started with Affinity!
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Experimenting with photo manipulation filters in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). A comparison between the edited and original Unsplash photo.

#GIMP #photomanipulation #graphicdesign #freelance #photography #FOSS #photoedit
deep blue sky over streetlights. Edits include motion blue on the clouds, warp, shift, and brush mask effects on the streetlights and overpass barrier, and a fabric white border and glow on the clouds. deep blue sky over streetlights. There are no warp effects and the colours are less saturated and have less contrast.
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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There's now a 6K resolution version of this wallpaper for those of you with absolutely massive monitors.

Download links on my website: futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html...

#linux #debian #xfce #inkscape #krita #foss #illustration #mastoart #graphicdesign
A cartoon with flat colours on a purple and yellow isometric grid background. Xue the mouse has climbed onto the mug and is looking at the swirling liquid inside. The mug is filled with red-pink liquid and the debian swirl logo is like a curl of steam. Tux the penguin is sleeping against the tea mug and saucer on the opposite side with his fins resting on his stomach. The Linux, XFCE logo, and Debian text logo are in two separate purple squares of the grid and have a light yellow fill. The latter two are listed as XFCE x Debian.
August 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The RBlind Lemmy themes are now available to all Lemmy instances as a default theme as of version 0.90. The light and dark theme are higher contrast and have other improvements. futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html...

#lemmy #accessibility #foss #opensource #a11y #ui #uidesign #freesoftware
The Lemmy logo, pull request icon, and the universal access icon are beside the Future Horizon Design logo on a background of beige, purple, blue, and dark blue waves.
June 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I've added the XFCE high contrast window decoration to my website and Open Desktop. They're inspired by the coloured High Contrast themes on Windows 10/11. futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html...

#linux #foss #xfce #opensource #windows #accessibility #a11y #ui #uidesign #freesoftware
Close up of four window decorations including the border and minimize, maximize, and close icons. They have purple, yellow, dark blue, and cyan window borders with outlines. The buttons are either yellow with black background, white with dark grey background, black with white background, or cyan with dark grey background.
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I wrote about some accessibility improvements I helped make to Lemmy over the last few months. Happy to be a part of it!

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#fediverse #accessibility #a11y #lemmy #foss #opensource #linux #indieweb #smallweb
The Lemmy logo, pull request icon, and the universal access icon are beside the Future Horizon Design logo on a background of beige, purple, blue, and dark blue waves.
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I like my Debian Xfce distro so much I made a wallpaper for it featuring some Linux mascots.

Download links on my website: futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html...

#linux #debian #xfce #inkscape #krita #foss #illustration #graphicdesign
A cartoon with flat colours on a purple and yellow isometric grid background. Xue the mouse has climbed onto the mug and is looking at the swirling liquid inside. The mug is filled with red-pink liquid and the debian swirl logo is like a curl of steam. Tux the penguin is sleeping against the tea mug and saucer on the opposite side with his fins resting on his stomach. The Linux, XFCE logo, and Debian text logo are in two separate purple squares of the grid and have a light yellow fill. The latter two are listed as XFCE x Debian.
March 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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I modified the Hackneyed cursors to be high contrast and use the Windows 10 and 11 default cursor colours. Download directly from my website or Open Desktop.

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#cursor #linux #foss #opensource #accessibility #a11y #accessible #retrocomputing #freesoftware
monochrome preview multicolour preview green monochrome preview yellow monochrome preview
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Announcement: I have a new logo, website, and email address!

I see this change as an overall upgrade in functionality, accessibility, and visuals. You can read more on my New Site Design post: futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html...

#webdesign #webdev #indieweb #smallweb #accessibility #a11y
The background is beige with a solid gradient with four steps: light blue, light purple, dark blue, and deep blue. On the left is the scope filter logo of a telescope fish head with an arrow pointing to the new logo of Future Horizon Design. The Future Horizon Design logo has a tilde wave shape in blue with a shell illustration. The shell has a dark blue outline, a shadow on the right side, and a grid underneath on the inside with purple colouring.
February 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Made the Cyanotype Wordpress theme compatible with the Bear Blog system and static site generators for a recent project.

There's more on the Codeberg and Github repos.

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#wordpress #css #webdesign #webdev #accessibility #bearblog #freelance #a11y
Monochrome blog template with a side by side comparison of dark and light modes and filler text like Blog Title, Link Text, and Post title example. The Bear Blog and Wordpress logos are overlaid on top.
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Happy to announce the release of the open source RBlind Lemmy themes I worked on with collaboration with OurBlind. They improve the accessibility of the interface for the vision impaired and blind community.

codeberg.org/travis-jeans...

#codeberg #joincodeberg #foss #a11y #accessibility #lemmy
The Lemmy homepage with the RBlind-Dark.css theme applied. Compared to the Darkly Compact theme, all elements have been enlarged and the background and foreground colours have higher contrast. Thumbnail images are enlarged to span roughly the height of an average post. The Lemmy homepage with the RBlind-Light.css theme applied.
January 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The good vibes when your new homepage passes the XHTML validation check on Nu Checker.

Coding in XHTML5 is new to me but today I learned it's better for the role="navigation" to not be on a list element. So it's on a parent div instead.

#indieweb #webdev #accessibility #a11y
The Nu Html Checker showing results for index.xhtml. Info: Using the preset for XHTML + SVG 1.1 + MathML 3.0 + RDFa 1.1 based on the root namespace. Document checking completed. No errors or warnings to show.
January 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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A poster for the Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF), a student project.

I made an isometric post-modern design inspired by April Greiman who is a big inspiration.

#graphicdesign #posterdesign #artistsofmastodon #illustration #illustrator #commissionsopen #opencommissions #postmodern
The BSAF ad is an abstract scene in isometric perspective. Beside two painbrushes laid side by side is a blue and red striped wall with a checkered floor. A wall leads to a stack of cubes with a sliced spray can on top, dripping paint from the segments. It is spraying blue paint to the top of the design where the BSAF logo and festival dates are taped on in black and white. From the bottom to the top of the composition are a series of shapes floating in space. Blank canvases float in front of a giant paintbrush applying a strip of red paint across the background of the illustration. From behind the paint are the silouettes of a crowd, a spotlight hitting a wall, and black double headed arrows arranged vertically. The colours are a mix of black, white, yellow, purple, red, blue, and purple. Screentone dots are applied to the background, spotlight, and walls. Dripping paint drops are another element used to guide the eye along the vertical axis of the illustration.
December 20, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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I am a huge fan of the experimental music genre, electronic ambient especially like Enigma and Future Sound of London (FSOL).

These album covers I designed were inspired by FSOL.

#electronicmusic
#bandcampfriday
#indiemusic
#albumcover
#graphicdesign
#photomanipulation
The artwork is a photomanipulation with a white, blue, and violet colour scheme. It is abstract and assymetric in composition. In the foreground, three white feathers float in an arc towards a spot light like an orb. Misty white clouds float over an invisible horizon. Ripples like water lead toward the horizon, white against a textured background. The background has a grainy and rough texture in purple and blue. Purple facets crack open to reveal a lighter blue behind it. The overall composition features contrast in colours and texture between the foreground and background. A lower and right black strip has a barcode, track listing, and credits. The text reads: SIDE A, 01. Sinking Reflections, 2. Sea Shadows. SIDE B, 03. Lightning Wings, 4. Beginning Flight. The credits are in lowercase font and read: all tracks written and produced by LOST WAVE. Recorded at haunted expanse records, brisbane 2022. Engineered by VOID OBSERVER, cover by RHIANNON JEANS, photography and artwork by RHIANNON JEANS. A mockup of a vinyl case with album art on the cover. The artwork is a photo manipulation with a psychedelic blue and pink colour scheme. In the foreground above and below the viewpoint are crystallised purple coral. In the mid-ground is a blue ocean with giant white swan feathers landing gracefully on the water. Trails of floating foam and mist hover closeby. The background is a pink sky with white clouds. In the top left is the album name written in a script font 'Plunged into Clouds' in white. In the bottom right is the band name written in pink with a scratchy irregular script, it reads: 'Lost Wave'.
December 10, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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This was a fun project, a floppy disk design with an advertisement styled like the old Apple II ads.

#graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #logodesign #logodesigner #logotype #floppydisk #nostalgia #retrodesign #memphis #80s #90s #diskette #disquette #retro #affinitydesigner #affinity #opencommissions
1,440,000 bytes of creativity. 3 1/2 inch floppy diskettes by bitmate. Four colours available pink, yellow, green, and blue. The logo is a racing cartoon rabbit with rainbow speed lines and a heart next to its head. The i in bit is a heart and the a in mate is the rabbit head facing forward.
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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One of my student projects I liked: Crystal Shore a vegan sparkling water brand with flavors like lemonade and cola.

There's a few alternate versions you can see on my blog: scopefilter.net/blog/posts/2...

#y2kart #y2k #logodesign #graphicdesign #logo #logodesigner #graphicdesigner #vectordesign
A mockup of business cards with the logo and dolphin graphic on the back. The business card front has a blue wave bordering the top and bottom with the logo Crystal Shore in the middle. The back is pink with a light swirl graphic, a dolphin graphic in the top left, and the logo tagline 'Hit refresh on your mind'. Wholesale and Customer Orders with a phone number, email, and web address. The horizontal and vertical logo variations. The albino dolphin is approaching a diamond under water enclosed in a circle shape with pink arcing action lines. The text is bubbly and tightly spaced with a pink diamond in the counter of the O in shore. The colour palette includes blue ocean HEX #0083CA, pink lake HEX #F279A7, and white foam #FFFFFF. A mockup of a drinks menu. A drink menu is positioned on a beach towel. It has a dolphin graphic in the top left, the logo tagline beside it, and sparkle graphics. The menu reads 'Drinks Menu', and a Flavored heading. Description text reads: Nostalgic flavors in a classic 330mL can. The menu reads Clear cola, Sol orange, Hyper grape, Ray raspberry, light lemon for $2.50 each. Then an Original heading. Description text reads: Crystal clear mineral water in a 330mL can. Aurora mineral for $2.20. A mockup of a styleguide with pages floating above a blue background.
November 14, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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I made a wallpaper for my Linux boot (GRUB screen). Neuroscience inspired with article credits on my site
#y2kart #y2k #art #2000s #1990s #DigitalArt #2000sart #graphicdesign #sciart #neuroscienceart #science #neurons #experimental #experimentalambient #frutigeraero #commissionsopen #graphicdesigner
A horizontal canvas with a blue background. Rounded 3d white letters read: multimodal integration. A large glowing white pyramidal neuron with branching arms is in the center. The bottom right has an artificial intelligence neural network schematic with three layers and text describing the text beneath it. A firing neuron train crosses the middle of the composition while arcing lines of a cortical brain scan are at the top. Other pyramidal neurons are blurred in the background along with overlaid textures like scan lines. Text describing the artificial neural network is nearby. Artificial Network Properties reads: Bayesian inference, feed-forward. The Decision Fusion Algorithms read Kalman fiter and Linear decoder. The Text describing the input layers to the network are: input layer with a linear function with the subtitle weighted sums, a middle hidden layer with a tansigmoid function, and an output layer with a linear function which reads net activation. It is feed forward and fully connected.
November 8, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Here are some solarpunk themed designs I've made!

1) A graphic about climate change and the benefit of green roofs and green spaces in urban environments
2) industrial and futurist postcards about renewable energy sources
3) a booklet cover to encourage walking to public art spaces in Brisbane
Vector art with an asymmetric design. Flat style with different tones of blue. Batteries charge on the left with circuits leading to solar panels. Trees and a thermometer stating the temperature is stable is in the top right. A speedometer is at the bottom with years on it leading into the future. Buildings with green roofs are at the bottom. A mockup of postcards placed over a light wood table. The back of the postcard is in the center with 4 illustration fronts arranged around it. The back cover features a rectangular illustration along the top of industrial buildings in black and white. The first front cover features stylised wind turbines drawn on a slant. The image is white for the turbines and sky blue for the background. An industrial segmented numeral 9 is on one of the poles. The second front cover is the side of a multi-storey building from a low three-point perspective. An industrial segmented numeral A is on a wall and many solar panels cover the walls. The blue sky is visible to the left. The third front cover is another side of a building with a stylised letter J with the sky visible above it. The fourth front cover is another side of a building with a stylised letter C, this wall has a rounded corner and the sky is visible above it. A mockup of the front and back covers of the Brisbane Canvas booklet. It is A5 in size with a bright yellow background colour, with flat graphics in black and white over the top, and black text overlaid over white shapes. The front cover shows a walking person from street signs heading to the left. On the left is a black arrow pointing out a white building silouette. A dotted path leads to the top of the page where a geo-marker indicator is next to a speech bubble that reads Brisbane Canvas. The Brisbane City Council logo is at the bottom left of the page. The back cover has the Brisbane City Council logo, social media icons, and website links on the left hand side. The right hand side has a large hand cursor dropping the person graphic who lands on the dotted path in front of canvas panels. A figure is walking toward them to meet at the street art. A close up of the postcard with wind turbines.
October 30, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Hello Bsky! I'm a graphic designer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. My background is in academia (psychology, neuroscience) and I'm interested in accessibility.

Here are some recent designs I'm proud of.

#graphicdesign #digitaldesign #logodesign #branddesign #a11y #branding #design
A detailed black and white ink illustration of a betta fish in profile with the label Betta Fish. It has a white fill and is floating over a blue wave background. A chaotic composition with black and white dithered photographs and loopy type reading cloud nine. It features a parrot, a dove in flight, grapes, flowers like daisies, daffodils, sunflowers, clouds, an egg's nest, an eye, a tuft of grass, and hands reaching toward the sky and a skyscraper in the horizon. 1,440,000 bytes of creativity. 3 1/2 inch floppy diskettes by bitmate. Four colours available pink, yellow, green, and blue. The bitmate logo is a cartoon y2k rabbit running to the left with rainbow speed lines and a heart by its head. The a in the brand name bitmate is a rabbit's head and the dot of the i is a pink heart. The logo uses four down arrow glyphs and ovals on top to depict bright green plant buds in soil plots. The text Green Cloud Computing Association is below the graphic in green and white text on a brown background.
October 21, 2024 at 7:49 AM