Greetings, Very Cool People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday.

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Artist Noah Verrier makes still-life oil paintings of modern, everyday, foods on a table. Uncrustables, Pringles with a wine glass, a Domino's Pizza Box, etc. Like a modern day Cézanne or Caravaggio.

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Unforgetful is a new iPhone app for “procrastinators, ADHD, and forgetful people”. That's certainly me. It sits on top of the stock Reminders app as a simpler interface, which is promising. I'm giving it a trial this week...and checking that off the list.

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Midnight Vinyl Club is a new site that tracks new and trending album releases and finds you the best deal on buying the vinyl. There's also a social component so you can follow friends and get recommendations. I absolutely love that the site is devoted to music discovery that's physical. I need to dig into this. Also, please emoji overlords, give us a vinyl record emoji asap.

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A Japanese brand made bandages that make it look like the wound underneath is 8-bit pixellated. Cuts and scrapes as retro tech fashion? I did not expect to be typing this today, but here we are. And I welcome the benign distraction.

Last week I asked about brand mascots and surprisingly y'all chose the Pillsbury Doughboy by an overwhelming amount. Kool-Aid Man came in 2nd.

Back to working on Racely (a slanted version of Parkly Wide with speedy wind lines). I've been adding contextual alternates to automatically show a different wind pattern when two letters are repeated. This is a super niche look, but will hopefully be useful for that one project where you need it. It'll have a simplified glyph set and a lower price.

Also! It's been a while, and so today (Friday) at 1pm ET I'll be doing another livestream for Secret Club™ members. I'll hop on for an hour of live type designing. This time, I'll keep moving on our previous project font but bringing it into the new Glyphs 4 to check out some of the new features they've added. I'll be recording it and making it available to club members to view whenever they'd like.

Thanks for reading, and have a fantastic weekend!

Cheers,