Resources

Hyperlink Potpourri

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements

This old book is a periodic table of known mechanical movements, first published in 1868. The book has been scanned onto the web, with many of the gears animated into looping gifs so you can see precisely how their ingenious mechanisms work and what movements they create.

American Science & Surplus

Science kits, educational toys, school supplies, arts and crafts items, hobby tools, scales, lab glass, housewares, electronics. All the good stuff.

Cool Tools

Tools. Cool ones.

are.na

“Spend less time “liking” and more time thinking. Are.na frees your mind from distraction and lets you organize your internet more mindfully.”

Ian’s Shoelace Site

Yes, a site all about lacing and tying shoes. I use Ian’s own knot, aptly named "The Ian Knot."

Jessica Hische’s Resources

Jessica Hische is a lettering artist and author. Her resources page is fantastic (and the inspiration for this one).

The Prepared.

“Every week The Prepared sends you research, analysis, and news from across the engineered, manufactured, and built world.”

Present & Correct

“Office sundries for the modern workspace. New & vintage stationery available online & from our London store.”

Mcmaster-Carr

An industrial supplier with a HUGE selection (US Only).

Nero’s Notes

UK-based stationer. Romantics for traditional, analogue writing supplies.

SmallPDF

Everything you'll ever need for working with PDFs.

thistothat.com

A dirt simple glue guide: Choose the two materials you'd like to glue together and voilà‼ Your answer for the perfect glue to adhere to them together.

Tools & Techniques

Bongo Ties

Super-duper rubber bands with a wooden toggle thing. A million and one uses.

The Pomodoro Technique®

A simple time management system that helps me a lot, maybe it will help you too?

Required Viewing

An ongoing list of filmmakers, YouTube Channels, and other online films that I think are exceptional:

Alec Soth, The Art Assignment, Beau Miles, Essential Craftsman, Everything is a Remix, Harry Dwyer, Technology Connections, Ten Bullets, Van Neistat Vimeo & YouTube

Authors, Books, & Bookstores

Cal Newport

Author of the hit 2016 book Deep Work (about the merits of mono-tasking and deep concentration in a world of constant distraction) and his newest release: A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

by Leanne Shapton

Michael Pollan

Author of five New York Times bestsellers: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013), Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010); In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008); The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) and The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001)

Mouse Book Club

A collection of tiny, portable books.

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

An encyclopedia of over two hundred design patterns to create spaces that are comfortable, humane, inviting, and treat inhabitants intelligently. An essential read. Authors: Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel. Oxford University Press 1977, 1171 pages

Tyler on Goodreads

I keep my Goodreads account pretty up-to-date with what I'm reading.

Wink Books

Fabulous books that “belong on paper.“

Photographic Equipment & Chemistry

ADOX

Producers of films, photo papers, and chemistry, including many classic formulas from defunct brands like Agfa.

Bostick & Sullivan

Supplier of materials and chemicals for alternative processes,

FILM Ferrania

FILM Ferrania is restarting production for analogue film in both still photo and motion picture formats.

KEH

In my opinion, the internet’s best camera store, great for used gear and analogue equipment.

Photographers’ Formulary

Chemistry galore!

Sprint >> Systems of Phtography

Producers of black and white liquid chemistry.

Willem Verbeeck

Willem is an analogue photography wunderkind, his YouTube channel is as tranquil as it is informative.

Inspiration

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

THE *HUGE* archive.

Rubrication Design Examples

A gallery of typographic and graphic design examples of rubrication, a classic pattern of using red against black for emphasis.

Shorpy

Huge archive of scanned, restored, and curated historic photographs.

Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

by Michael Sorkin

Webster's 1913

“Connoisseur's reference to American English - a dictionary for writers and wordsmiths”

Online Tools - Photography & Imaging

Bulk Resize Photos

Image resizer resizes bulk batches like a champ

Squoosh

Powerful image resizing and compression tool.

Online Tools - Typography & Lettering

Copy Paste Character

“A web and iPhone application for copying the ‘hidden’ characters that come with the computer’s typefaces, to be pasted into emails, tweets, text documents, forums and whatever else you might need to spice up with an extra ♚, ฿ or, ❒.“

Typography - General

Butterick's Practical Typography

Resources for better type.

Typewolf

Possibly the greatest type resource online. Great for print and web.

Illustrators, Typographers, & Designers

Maggie Appleton

“Anthropologist, art director, illustrator, metaphor designer, and mediocre developer” - London, England

Simon Walker

Designer & Lettering artist - Austin, Texas

Applications

Better Touch Tool

A smorgasbord of tools for tweaking macOS, also adds Windows 7 style window snapping, worth every penny.

Pastebot

“If copy & paste is a part of your workflow, Pastebot is an indispensable tool to improve your productivity. Quickly recall clippings that you have copied before and apply powerful text filters to format before pasting. Queue up multiple clippings to paste in sequence.”

Pixlr & GIMP

Two free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop.

Processing

“Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.”

Chrome Remote Desktop

Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Easily the simplest way to remote into another machine.

macapps.link

The best alternative to Ninite for macOS. Just choose what apps to install and get apps automatically installed, quietly, fast and easy. Use it to setup your new computer.

Notion

An amazing note-taking, task management, information-organizing platform.

Nova

A native Mac code editor from the amazing team at Panic

nvALT (Notational Velocity)

nvALT is a minimalist note-taking app for macOS with a unique user interface.

Hazel

Automated organization for your Mac by Noodlesoft

Lightshot

Windows application for taking and annotating screenshots

Soulver

“Soulver is a notepad calculator app for Mac. It's a notepad that gives instant answers to calculations in your text. Soulver is a better way to work things out than a classic calculator,and a more lightweight tool than a spreadsheet.”

TextExpander

A more full-featured, cross platform alternative to aText, pricier, but has become my go to as I have been working in Windows more and more.

TextSniper²⁰²¹

“Instantly capture non-selectable text from YouTube videos, PDFs, images, online courses, screencasts, presentations, webpages, video tutorials, photos, etc. It's so simple and easy as taking a screenshot.”

Audio

Podcast Recommendations

Guides

Glitch Art Resources

Phillip Stearn’s collection of resources concerning Glitch Art.

styleguides.io

Website style guide resources.

Tyler’s Telephony Page

Tyler’s (yes me!) telephony resources page.

Websites

Brutalist Websites

“In its ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today’s web design.”

The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)

A curated collection of online museums.