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The most recent sci-fi story is up on our sci-fi mini-site.

From: https://scifi.fastforwardlabs.com/


I got inline footnotes working in Gatsby.js for the new sci-fi story. The DOM manipulation was not the prettiest but it works.

From: https://scifi.fastforwardlabs.com/ff08/havurtat via https://gist.github.com/GrantCuster/702d544161362b4a840a2ae818e0cbb8


I'm using the calendar-o-matic notebook I made to look at the process from our last report and prototype cycle.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/ff08-post-mortem


I made a project calendar timeline controlled through plain text. Based off Mike Bostock's Tree-o-Matic.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/project-timeline-calendar-o-matic

Inspiration

The hill chart for project tracking in Basecamp. I like this a lot. I think the hill aspect itself might be unnecessarily literal, but I really like the idea of clearly communicating the risk and uncertainty in the early stages.

From: https://m.signalvnoise.com/new-in-basecamp-see-where-projects-really-stand-with-the-hill-chart-ca5a6c47e987

Inspiration

Black Bolt art by Christian Ward.

From: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Bolt-Vol-Hard-Time/dp/1302907328

Inspiration

School layouts optimized for traffic flow by Joel Simon.

From: http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html


FF08


Laying out a report.


Figuring out the cover.


It's figure drawing week.


I think this is going to work.


Not quite the intended effect, but getting close.


Bring in the canvas.

Inspiration

By Kate Compton. This gets at some of the issues I've been trying to figure out with the picture hanging arrangement generator.

From: https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1012788721379303424

Inspiration

Cool project and the design is super well scoped and executed.

From: https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten


Going for that Atari box art look.


Everything is going great.


More color coding experiments.


A lot of colors.