Welcome to The Layout #60. The substack about design that makes life a little easier with fun insights and key resources for you to use. 60 issues in, that’s a lot
Building blocks
Understanding the building blocks around us excites our creative minds irrespective of psychologically who we are. We might say we are not creative and this is not for me. It is fundamental to the human experience to understand the elements that make up the things around us. This curious nature allows us to innovate and create new things all over the globe. It is a curious and appreciative gesture of the environment around us that excites our creative minds to create and thrive. It seems simple or something small as the cell but understanding can lead to advances in science, technology, etc. Appreciate the building blocks around you. It might lead you to places unknown or unexpected
Time flies.
Time flies. It flies and it flies. We might delay in doing one thing or another but it goes away in a minute. We may say learning this skill might take a while but time will pass regardless so why don’t we do it anyway? Everyone is guilty of this(including me). A suggestion I have is to dedicate 90 mins a day to something we want to get done. This could be a project or learning a skill etc. To make this effective, a time audit must be performed which shouldn't take more than 15 mins of how much time we spend and on what. Knowing this gives us perspective on what to cut and what to keep. Stay aware friends
Resources
Omnivore: an open-source and read-it-later app. RSS subscriptions are included Click here to check it out
FontInterceptor: This website retrieves all the fonts from any website. Click here to check it out
Website Of The Week.
https://matrix.vc: Simple Layout. a colour illustration that is simple, subtle, and complex. Its content is pretty much straight to the point.
Calm morning
you know I got the plug.
Have a wonderful week and keep creating. Please subscribe and share with your friends if you found this helpful. Thank you and God Bless.