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It’s the 50th issue of Dense Discovery! 🎉 I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since the launch. Thanks for sticking around and being the best audience a publisher could wish for! It’s a privilege to be able to send out this little email magazine to you every week and make it a part of my livelihood. To the next fifty!
To celebrate this milestone, I’d like to give out 50 copies of Offscreen at just $5 (which just about covers shipping). To get your hands on a copy, here’s what you have to do:
Follow Dense Discovery on Twitter. Over the next 7 days, I’ll randomly tweet out 10 batches of discount codes that are valid for 5 uses each, discounting any one back issue to just $5. You’ll have to be quick, so keep your eyes on the Twitters.
– Kai
Dense Discovery is currently read by over 36,000 subscribers. Support us by (1) Sponsoring an issue, (2) Booking a classified ad, or (3) Sharing this issue with friends and colleagues.
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Goodbye Dry Stock SPONSOR
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Art-forward stock photos + footage
Stocksy United is an art-forward, royalty-free stock photography + footage agency founded on creative integrity and respect for artists. With our exceptionally high curation standards, discovering unique, beautifully authentic imagery is effortless.
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Apps & Sites
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Copy and paste on steroids: Pasta is a Mac app that adds a whole set of features to the ol’ clipboard. For instance, through its powerful search you can find clippings by content, application, type or even the window’s name.
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Crowdfunding for legal issues
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Are you a freelancer and a big client isn’t paying up? Here’s a way to take legal action without going broke: “Built by lawyers, CrowdJustice is the leading online fundraising platform specifically designed for legal action. Raise funds and support with a public or private fundraising page.”
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With Gone you simple list all your daily to-dos and then have 24 hours to complete them – or they disappear automatically.
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Koken describes itself as a “content management and web site publishing [platform] for photographers” with a “full-featured management interface that looks and feels like a desktop application”.
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Indie Mag of the Week
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MC1R is the world’s first and only redheads magazine. Dedicated to the beauty of red hair, each issue presents stories and art projects related to red-haired people.
– Latest Issue: 6
– Frequency: one issue/year
– Formats: print only
– Origin: Germany
We’re giving away five copies to randomly selected DD readers. Keep an eye on your inbox to find out if you’re among them!
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Affordable aluminium pen
“The thoughtfully designed, buy-for-life pen that won’t break the bank.” That sounds like my kind of pen. The heavy-duty aluminium Grafton Pen takes all the popular refill cartridges. It also comes in a smaller pocket version.
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Wallet & adjustable phone stand
The ICUERO wallet stand sticks to the back of your phone as a kickstand and a wallet at the same time. It holds your phone in portrait or landscape mode at an adjustable angle for comfortable handsfree viewing. The wallet seems to just fit a couple of cards and some notes. (Currently on Kickstarter)
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Overheard on Twitter
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Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn’t happen.
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Food For Thought
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This week’s must-read: Ethicist Fiona J McEvoy uses the concept of embryo pre-selection (checking which embryo offers the best chance for a healthy baby) to illustrate how giving people choice affects even those who decide to opt out. Relevant to so many areas in the tech sphere.
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I really enjoyed this essay on the role of money, work, and status. Max’ approach at the end is simple, yet powerful: “Continually learning to set boundaries for yourself based on your needs, being able to sit with the discomfort that comes from doing so, these are the edges of the path.”
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We’re all familiar with the phrase ‘less is more’, but our actions as designers of increasingly complex systems often lead to very different results. Kate Clayton reminds us how to strive for elegant simplicity.
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Aesthetically Pleasing
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Inter is a free and open source font family carefully crafted and designed for computer screens.
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I absolutely adore these Escher-esque multi-dimensional paintings by the Cinta Vidal.
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Kevin Teh designed an elegant brand for the Sydney Saké Society, based around a custom display typeface.
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Classifieds
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The Week in a GIF
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Email us the URL to your favourite GIF and we might feature it here in a future issue.
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