Climate alarmist, surfer, designer; design director @grillitype & co-host of https://xitter.cf/t.co/36quQopx2T; previously co-founder @xxix_co & @index_space
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Joined February 2009
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✨ Excited to share Archiv [beta], a collection system for organizing & identifying the physical world. It identifies objects & turns quick photos into crisp archive images. Early testers have been using it on all sorts: food, art, buildings +more. Sound On 🔊 Testflight 🔗⬇️
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Yesterday we started a Works But Makes Noises design group chat on @OutputApp! What's so cool is @allanyu_ & @jcb are evolving the platform daily; away from a Slack-like space, towards a fun group chat app. Flying with them as they build the plane around us! – Come join! ⬇️🔗
I loved this convo with longtime friend @allanyu_. I related 100% to the feeling of being young and not being able to understand (/listen well enough) what a team or organization needed from me. Age/experience/wisdom is real!
Got to chat with @dmcgco and @jheftmann about how I know what being a good employee means, and how we're integrating ᴬᴵ
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Got to chat with @dmcgco and @jheftmann about how I know what being a good employee means, and how we're integrating ᴬᴵ
✨New Works But Makes Noises [Ep 10]
We’re joined by @allanyu_; designer & co-founder of @OutputApp
We chat about the jump from big tech to building a venture-backed startup, what it’s like to pivot a product, & why the future of AI should be invisible
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
fun talking to my bud @dmcgco about craft without the extra noise around this topic!
✨ New Works But Makes Noises Episode [009]
In this episode me & @jheftmann get nerdy on how agentic coding is flipping our design process.
Robot vacuum fleets, Claude code experiments, closed loop workflows, & the death of wireframes. It's got it all.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
This one was a lot of fun – recorded straight from Downtown Brooklyn right before IRL co-host hangs upstate.
Also, stickers!!
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A canon. A typeface. An alphabet.
GT Canon is out NOW.
Neither historical nor futuristic, GT Canon marks a defining chapter in our search for a universal serif.
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✨ New WBMN Episode just dropped!
The 52" monitor, home-cooked software, claude code, craft & imperfection, authorship & taste, designing without scale, having an independent design practice, freelancing vs studios, building a career on your own terms
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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We added a new feature on Works But Makes Noises that I’m too excited about…
If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts app with the latest iOS, the cover art now updates dynamically in real time as you listen to the show to display the design we’re currently talking about! 🔗⬇️
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✨ I'm excited to finally share a fun project me and @jheftmann have been working on together...
We started a podcast; Works But Makes Noises. It’s a fun, informal take on design and creative work, made to bring a little lightness back into the discourse.
Now Live! 🔗⬇️
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Friends don’t let friends code minisites for typeface families with eleven scripts that have been expertly designed by @jheftmann
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Our very own @jheftmann is teaching a course at @index_space_org this fall on some of the most valuable skills we rely on as a studio.
A few spots are still available! Sign up or browse the other great offerings this fall: index-space.org/collections/…
𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗔 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 with @xxix_co founder @jheftmann
Develop a meaningful creative concept while strengthening your skills in giving and receiving feedback.
Register → index-space.org/products/des…
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Our very occasional newsletter just went out!
This one's more about stuff we'd like to do and less about what we've liked doing.
mailchi.mp/xxix/summer-23
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Based in Amsterdam, Post-office is the first community operated Index space by @bryanfwolff
Grounded in Elinor Ostrom’s commons theories, post-office is a cooperative space as prototype of our collective futures
Opening May 2023. Follow along →
instagram.com/post____office
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Our latest article on Substack proves that consumers are looking for brands that take sustainability seriously.
Read about how the @seaborne_nyc team discovered that substantive sustainability messaging produces significantly higher CTRs.
garden3d.substack.com/p/subs…
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Our biggest differentiator?
"Our profit-share model. It's the seed from which everything else we do grows. We pay out all company profits to our employees at the end of the year. This way everyone benefits directly from their work, instead of just the people at the top.”
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"We’re trying to make a place where people can work calmly and contentedly for 10+ years. That sounds outrageous today, but why?”
ALT XXIX for Modern Life
I talked to The Brand Identity about building a people-first design studio @xxix_co. Thank you @TweetsByTBI!
“It’s all about people!” Jacob Heftmann on XXIX’s democratic and dazzlingly talented studio → t-bi.link/xxix
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“Approach your work with personality.”
New interview with James Musgrave (@jamesmu), Lisbon-based British designer working with @xxix_co across brand, product, and experience design.
↳ loversmagazine.com/interview…