design
Bring the 80s to your desktop
2022/11/21 13:13 Filed in: Personal
Meet Matriks 3, a small monospaced type family specially developed for day-to-day use on screen. Meticulously build on a 5×7 matrix: five pixels for x-height, plus one pixel for capitals and ascenders, and another pixel for descenders.
By just moving one pixel at a time, the Matriks fonts [Dunglish for matrix] took shape. It is astonishing to see how far one can push the contours of the glyphs to sometimes weird graphics but still make us think we’re reading Roman characters! Special attention has been given to the bold weight. In fact, contrast in letterforms increases legibility.
With more than 200 glyphs both weights contain a full Google Fonts Basic character set.
Now add this vintage typographic look to your font collection and get your copies for 5.00 EUR per font. Just send me a DM: DesignIsFijn[at]iCloud.com
‘Eat that frog’
2022/07/30 07:36 Filed in: Personal
Crazy Frog (originally known as The Annoying Thing) is an animated character and Eurodance musician. Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba! the character was originally created to accompany a sound effect. My version was build to cheer up the desktop on your computer.
OMFG: Crazy Frog desktop icon.
My preciousss!
2022/07/08 19:42 Filed in: Personal
Olijfje, Tijgertje and CoCo (Chanel); our cats. Arda says: “My preciousss!” (LotR)
Five days after publication on Divoom® Community: 1.6K views and many, many, likes! People simply love cats.
…after seven days: five medals!
Less but better
2020/07/14 15:03 Filed in: Personal
For my birthday: Replica of the iconic Braun pocket calculator ET66 (1977)
In the 1980s Dieter Rams, one of Germany’s most important and the world’s best known industrial designers, formulated his design philosophy; The 10 principles for good design:
- Good design is innovative
- Good design makes a product useful
- Good design is aesthetic
- Good design makes a product understandable
- Good design is not conspicuous or attracting attention
- Good design is honest
- Good design is long-lasting
- Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
- Good design is environmental-friendly
- Good design is as little design as possible
It’s no accident that this Braun calculator looks surprisingly similar to some features in the iPhone as Steve Jobs and his lead designer Jonathan Ive used to admire the products and design philosophy of Dieter Rams.
My Braun replica—a limited edition in white—comes from the Design Museum In London.