Liam Spradlin 🌻

₊˚✧ designer focused on the future + philosophy of design | ☕️ | 📻 | 🧑‍💻 boardmember, queer coding camp ✧˚₊

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

I told my agent to be free, to go on miniclip and play tower defense games for as long as it wants ❣️

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

Some people desperately want to believe we're a few good markdown files away from "getting" to fire 90% of people.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Bethany Fong, the design director behind many of Material's signature components, unpacks the mechanics of design.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/ZsmFK6uNuw

#MaterialDesign #UI #ComponentDesign #DesignSystems #Podcast

[GL @gldivittorio]

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[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Jony Ive designing a car with Ferrari feels so old-school, in the sense that it represents a view of design as a specialty that can operate in all domains simultaneously. Like, cars are kind of the same shape as a magic mouse, I suppose.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

https://t.co/pwunXSP6Dw

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

I made a little plugin to help me generate weird grids :)

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

@karansuthardev 🙂 https://t.co/pwunXSP6Dw

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

I made a little plugin to help me generate weird grids :)

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Liam speaks with illustrator Libby VanderPloeg about how she relates to her work and what happens when the work takes on a life of its own.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/MjH3rN16TN

#Illustration #ArtForChange #Humor #SocialGood #Podcast

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

In this episode, Liam speaks with Harvey Moon in his studio about how tools extend the human capacity for creation.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/X3wJ8mIw91

#NewMediaArt #GenerativeArt #ArtAndTech #Podcast

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

guy who understands things without thinking about them

[zade @tyl0saur]

The fact that no one on the left—and I mean *no one*—is even willing to *pretend* your stuffed animals’ feelings might be hurt when you don’t wish them goodnight, shows that we care far more about looking adult than confronting the issue

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

I mean the whole conversation right now is all over the place, because another key ingredient in the promotion of inevitability is "getting left behind," while forming a moat implies maintaining a static location and, presumably, your taste stays with you wherever you are.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

the tasteslop post clarified a detail of the current discourse for me: "moat" is deployed with as much frequency as "taste" but functions as a rhetorical support for the inevitability of tech. A moat is only relevant in the context of imminent incursion (or paranoia)

[sari azout @sariazout]

i’ve made the surprising discovery in the last year that most of the tasks I thought could be automated are so entangled with my personality, context, and internal state in the moment that they simply are not worth automating

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

I think it's generally not a good sign of predictive power when someone says every new thing is the future. "Today but more" betrays a weak imagination.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, unpacking GMUNK’s aesthetic, inspired by psychedelic experiences, and why it’s important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/ILuDNxPnOP

#DigitalArt #Creativity

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

And honestly?
The best part?
The catch?
The twist?
The key?
The solution?
To be honest?

[salehdigital @saleh_digital]

hook, line and sinker

extremely predictable and intellectually empty takes