Design Inspiration

Here I collect links and images that have or will prompt or inspire the design of this site.

sqrtminusone.xyz, 2023-04-17

kirk.is, 2023-04-18

berkeleygraphics.com, 2023-06-03

anaritamorais.com, 2023-04-17

simongriffee.com, 2023-04-17

Xerox 6085 with optional PCE board, showing Viewpoint 2.0 desktop and running PC Emulator. Found at www.typewritten.org/Media

A page from Dave On Design

liveabout.com, 2023-10-25

verygoodfilms.co, 2023-10-25

Rek Bell, kokorobot.ca, 2023-10-27

hellohappy.org, Chad Mazzola, 2023-11-04

www.readcereal.com, Cereal, 2023-11-04

https://bobdoto.computer/ZINES-1

Screenshot of Jon Hicks' Supernatural Detectives Field Guide, 2024-10-25

The Manuals Plus collection at the Internet Archive is a treasure trove of simple graphic design.

Sidenotes

Also see SEP 54: Sidenotes.

A screen of an article by Leo Gao showing an elegant use of sidenotes in web design.

https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html, 2023-05-01

Semantic sidenotes for the web by Koos Looijesteijn

Dorian Taylor has been a useful source of inspiration with respect to taxonomies/hierarchies.

ThoughtStreams is interesting architecturally, specifically with respect to mapping a space of many small interconnected thoughts.

Useful links:

Minimal Gallery
URL Design — Kyle Neath
The Design of Silicon Notes — Das Bityard

9:59pm on April 17, 2023 from Bristol, United Kingdom.


      filepath: /home/silas/notes/meta/design-inspiration.md
           uid: 561ca439-14cf-4c2f-b7e4-22074432cd0c
          slug: design/inspiration
         title: Design Inspiration
      category: meta
     secondary: misc
     available: 2023-04-17 21:59:03
       created: 2023-04-17 21:59:03
       updated: 2023-04-17 21:59:03
       creator: Silas Jelley
        layout: default
         words: {'self': -46, 'code': {'lines': 80, 'words': 205}, 'references': 0}
         links: {'internal': ['67cb967a-517d-4c36-b1a8-59f2f527a0e9', '91ad9fa1-a3d2-42db-a2fa-062892035aa9'], 'external': ['https://archive.org/details/manualsplus?tab=collection&query=format%3A%22item+tile%22&page=3&sort=-publicdate', 'https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2022/December/the-design-of-silicon-notes-with-cartoons', 'https://bmk.sh', 'https://bobdoto.computer/ZINES-1](img::1c5e5183', 'https://craftinginterpreters.com/scanning.html,', 'https://doriantaylor.com/', 'https://minimal.gallery', 'https://thoughtstreams.io/docs/thoughtstreams-changelog/', 'https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/semantic-sidenotes'], 'backlinks': []}
          tags: ['design']