I'm trying to finish designing my English alphabet poster series. Still missing 10 letters (there's a poster for each letter of the alphabet, surrounded by ~ 80-110 vintage illustrations of words that begin with a given letter, each labelled), and I'm starting to feel a bit stressed.
Had all of January + February to finish them, which should have been do-able, but then I had three separate client assignments fall into my lap, and couldn't afford not to take them. Didn't finish a single poster in January 😔
Also itching to get started on a new branch for my little solo company — creating printable activity sheets (think fancy-design word searches, mazes, word puzzles, dot-to-dot drawings, word scrambles, code breaking puzzles) for daycare/schools/museums, etc.
I'm hoping I can supplement my posters, opening up a new market for my company (marketing/selling children's posters to private individuals is hard, especially with extremely limited marketing funds, combined with a profound marketing ineptitude), as well as having something in the way of free downloads/printables I can use as SoMe eye-catchers. Hopefully also creating more awareness for my posters in the process. But I need to finish that alphabet series first, so my investor (a parent) doesn't loose all patience with the project 😬
Then there's the new shiny idea of creating a Dobble/Spot It!-like card game, also using material from my vast collection of vintage/public domain graphics.
I've managed to hobble together some Python code that can generate the data for the cards ("card 1 must have ill's. 01, 03, 05, 11, 12 ...", "card 2 must have ill's. 02, 07 ...") according to to the "Dobble formula" (possible cards & number of needed unique illustrations with X illustrations on each card = X^2 - X + 1, where X is a prime number + 1), based on my input for X.
I can then put that data in a spreadsheet, add filenames and descriptions/tags for each illustration, and (hopefully, if I can remember how, as it's been a while) generate all the finished print files for the cards by feeding the data to InDesign as a CSV.
Going to try to make a mockup with 12 images on each card, and looking at prices for big, custom game cards (A6 / 105 x 148.5 mm / 4.1 x 5.8 inches), with a deck size of 100 cards (technically, the amount of possible cards with X = 12 is 133, but even at 100 cards, the prices start to become prohibitively expensive, at least when looking at the small batch sizes I could conceivably afford).
But, oh yeah, need to stay focused on the main task, getting those posters done first! 🙄
Incidentally, if anyone has some interesting and/or fun Dobble/Spot It! house rules they'd like to share, I'm all ears! Any and all thoughts on possible gameplay with 100 unique, oversized, rectangular game cards, each card with 12 illustrations (animals, vehicles, minerals, historical characters ...), and each always having a single illustration in common with any other given card, are also of interest 😁
Thank you for the clarification! I've clearly misunderstood the function of the crypto and/or read a poor description of Nostr 👌
In this case, the crypto (in itself still an unpalatable, energy wasting pyramid scheme, IMO) makes a lot more sense, and doesn't detract from the platform (other than facilitating the platform's tacit promotion of crypto).
I tried reading up on Nostr the other day, and came away finding it unpalatable, mainly because my understanding was that upvotes are tied to crypto.
The way I read it, you need some sort of crypto currency to pay for upvoting a post, from which I inferred that the only reasonable gauge for a posts popularity (upvotes) was intrinsically tied to money (and crypto-money, at that).
Is this a reasonable assessment, or did I misunderstand something?
ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) is an acronym used as a political slogan associated with people who are opposed to the police. It is typically written as a catchphrase in graffiti, tattoos or other imagery in public spaces.
Honestly haven't heard of this happening in Europe before, but also haven't done any research before now, and I don't read a lot of news.
Seems it's a surprisingly (for me, at least) big thing in the UK, but until recently was more associated with gang violence, with young men being the main victims, as opposed to the more classic "man has precious 'honor' and feelings hurt by woman, manly and honorable man scars woman for life so everyone can see how honorable he is"-scenario.
Worldwide, 80% of victims are still female.
It's worth noting that, according to these statistics, the second and third European countries on the list, France and Italy, have a combined 14 attacks, which is less than the 20 in USA.
If only the economic rift between the indigent and the insanely wealthy Americans wasn't so great, you'd all be able to afford guns, and not have to resort to these disgusting "European" tactics 😓
Maybe we should start a GoFundMe campaign? If it works for paying for healthcare, maybe it will work for getting everyone a gun?
I fail to see how this is news. A complete tragedy, and as others have mentioned, the mother will blame herself for the rest of her life. Move along.
On top of that — is this really the type of sources we should be posting from? The stories I managed to see on the front page, before the gagging became too much, seemed to be equal parts Megan & Harry, Trump, and Caitlyn Jenner. Pure tabloid trash. They don't deserve the traffic.
For the first time in quite a while, I'm sorely missing the ability to downvote.
This looks really cool! Any downsides/dangers to this? 🤔