I’m currently diverting development attention away from forc (our WIP font creation tool) and onto what has become one of the roadblocks to making outputting standard Mutant Standard releases easy, which is our lovely workhorse exporting program called orxporter. Like a lot of things in Mutant Standard, reaching for new technical heights or features (crushed… Continue reading Updating Orxporter
Category: Process
0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – new emoji
In the previous post, I talk about the aesthetic approaches that have developed in this version, and the ways I have intentionally tried to create a new cohesive vision of how to design Mutant Standard emoji. In this post, I’m going to go through the new emoji designs like I normally do with these posts!… Continue reading 0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – new emoji
0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – aesthetic
In this post, I’m going to go over the variety of realisations I’ve made in my design process that have led to the various significant improvements that were made in 0.4.0.
0.3.1 sketches and thoughts
Here’s my sketches for 0.3.1! In general, looking back, I feel like a lot of what I did here was continue the new thinking that was started in 0.3.0, but was constrained with the design system baggage of earlier versions, and I feel that a good few of these just don’t reach their potential as… Continue reading 0.3.1 sketches and thoughts
0.3.0 sketches
Endless, endless testing. 0.3.0 was partly a new emoji update, but also just trying to tie up more loose ends for the future. I wanted to be super-satisfied with various core elements of the aesthetic and design philosophy so I could move on with bigger changes and more new emoji without feeling like I… Continue reading 0.3.0 sketches
Mutant Standard 0.2.5 Sketches
Okay, here’s the next round of sketches!!!!
Mutant Standard 0.2.4 Sketches
Here are all the sketches from 0.2.4, and a very long commentary. I am now making notes as I’m making the emoji, so giving you commentary is more efficient more detailed, and less scary to post at the end of a version because I have all the content already available. Remember, sketch file names are just… Continue reading Mutant Standard 0.2.4 Sketches
0.2.3 sketches
Here are the sketches behind the emoji in 0.2.3 and some of my commentary on how they went for this version. I think from now on, I will be batching the sketch posts to every few versions. It just works out easier for me to do it this way. Remember, the dates on each sketch… Continue reading 0.2.3 sketches
Mutant Standard S1 sketches
These were all spun off really quickly in the space of a few hours and mostly derivatives of other emoji, so there isn’t much in the way of process sketches. The bottom row is where the actual finished emoji sit. (This file also has a personal think_dzuk emoji and a think_mutant emoji which were made as… Continue reading Mutant Standard S1 sketches
Mutant Standard 0.2.1 Sketches
Here comes the last of the sketches of the most recent releases~*~