Frank Chimero

Another designer in New York

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@mikesmith187 i've had clients swear off colors from previous jobs. makes sense!

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@carlyayres Worth a read! https://t.co/nI26S9AaeC

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@FictiveCameron @KristyT against all odds, i'll accept a tie.

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

If you grew up with radio, a great way to time travel is to find an artist that was popular when you were a kid, and play their third or fourth most popular song. Anyway, here’s Roam by the B-52s, brought to you from the back of a white Saturn minivan: https://t.co/bO1FQMIdUZ

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@jstrelioff We’ve got a biz dev plan and it’s called hanging out and being good

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

i genuinely think there would be fewer podcasts if we had better arts funding

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

I am once again sharing my favorite Dolly quote: “Decide who you are, and do it on purpose.” 🦋

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

Kept busy this year working with returning clients and referrals, and almost ready to show some new work. Been a loooong while. Made a little lander for now to say I'm booking autumn. Should have a full site in the next couple weeks! https://t.co/1cXV9tAioh

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@tmincey

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

Every “how to work with designers” post reads like a sea monkey care guide. Designers can be sensitive, but they aren’t fragile. Just know design has its own culture that values coherence, sensibility, and discovery through process. You can’t count everything that matters.

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@kevintwohy I dodged that pickle

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

This is the 4th time in my career that tech's attitude about design has swung btwn skepticism to romanticizing. It's all trend chasing until leadership sacrifices a metric for coherence, sensibility, or quality. If you want great designers, prove that you value what we value.

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

Designers don’t need special handling. They just need respect and curiosity from their metric-focused peers about what they want, why they want it, and how it could happen in a way that isn’t performative. Work must make space for the unmeasurable.

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

my next design talk will be a 30 second slow fade in of this image followed by 29.5 minutes of wild, thunderous applause from the crowd

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

Introducing glorpslorp, a new way to glorp that isn’t glorping at all

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

@lylo @mikesmith187 Don’t like how the stems meet the serifs on Lora. Maybe OK at small sizes. For me it’s: Source Serif (tiny caveats), Newsreader (bigger caveats), Crimson Pro (needs adjusted metrics, it’s tiny), Charter, Fraunces, Plex Serif. Might be missing some recent releases

[Frank Chimero @frank_chimero]

New design skill: being able to spot weak design work that’s punched up with charismatic animation.