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Calvin Wilson
Los Angeles Director of Design @ Super Deluxe Joined over 9 years ago
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- Site Design: Thoughts & Prayers: The Game (thoughtsandprayersthegame.com)
- Site Design: Drop Drake. The Interactive "VIEWS" Album Cover (dropdrake.com)
- Site Design: Nextbit Robin (nextbit.com)
- First Look: Facebook TV (medium.com)
- Dribbble Meetup LA (nvite.com)
- XOXO Fest 2015! (2015.xoxofest.com)
- WorkChat from Evernote (blog.evernote.com)
- Particles, baby. (vincentgarreau.com)
- Google's material design on Chrome for Android (theverge.com)
- A simple guide to responsive design. (adamkaplan.me)
Posted to AMA: Mike Abbink, Executive Creative Director at IBM, Oct 25, 2017 Posted to Been working on a font revival for a while. Let me introduce to you: Marvin Visions, Sep 24, 2017 Love this! Such a classic. Well done
Posted to Workplace by Facebook, in reply to Powers Gray , Oct 10, 2016 Same, not stoked about pairing the ultimate distraction with a productivity tool.. seems like a tough challenge for FB to figure out.
Posted to Site Design: Famous, Jul 19, 2016 kinda like http://purplerockscissors.com/
Posted to Designer News Meetup Schedule (2016 Edition), in reply to Adam Rasheed , May 25, 2016 LA waddup!?
Posted to Site Design: Nextbit Robin, Feb 19, 2016 Site is cool, but that phone is GORGEOUS!!
Posted to Site Design: Sampulator - Make beats in your browser, Jan 27, 2016 So legit. I spent hours playing with this. Big s/o to @stevespaced
Posted to Macaw is joining InVision, Jan 27, 2016 Henry!!!!
Posted to UX Designer making the move to the west coast, but where?, in reply to Julian Lloyd , Dec 28, 2015 Haha, J! I can vouch for both LA and the PlanCheck Southern Fry!
- Gal Shir (galshir.com)
- CSS Grid - How to easily build complex layouts (medium.com)
- Figma now has Overlays (figma.com)
- Linda Eliasen, now working at help Scout, talks about her experience as a designer, teamwork, her burnout and what a good leader is like. (teamweek.com)
- Lobe | Deep Learning Made Simple (lobe.ai)
- [Serious] Designers working at Facebook, how have the recent events impacted your work?
- Stripe Billing (stripe.com)
- Toggl rebranding (toggl.com)
- Design Systems Handbook | DesignBetter.co (designbetter.co)
- Designers & age
Hey Mike, Thanks for taking the time!
I have three questions for you:
• Where do you start when deciding to design a typeface?
• What books or resources would you recommend on grids and typography?
• What are some of your favorite typefaces at the moment?
Thanks!