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10/03/2023

Typographic scale is at the basics of every website we design. It’s an invaluable tool that helps us create websites that look good and functions great across all screen sizes – and with the tools we have made, we can do it fast.

Typographic scale is a method for creating balanced and readable font sizes. With a solid foundation in typography, you are well on the way to create cohesive and accessible experience of your website. The scale can also be used to create margin and spaces, that corresponds to the typography for a balanced and eye pleasing design.

Typographical scale uses a lot of math, and it can be difficult to implement and test when done manually, but luckily computers and code are great at math. With CSS variables and a few math functions, you can create a system that controls the core functions of your design. Best off all, this is done without breakpoint.

With just three simple variables you can change the scale for all your typography and the margins and white space on your site. With this tool, you can very quickly test how various types work with different scales and how the overall layout reacts to the changes.

The three variables are, type scale, minimum font size and maximum font size. Once those are set, all sizes and margins are calculated.

Try it yourself. In the CSS column change the values of --type-scale, --type-root and --type-root-max. The text sizes are 1/10 size, so 16px = 1.6rem is equal to 1.6 for the variable and so forth. Then change the width of the live preview area to see how the size change with the width of the view port.

Responsive typographic scale for calculating responsive font sizes and margins without the use of breakpoints, with just three simple variables....

08/03/2023

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06/03/2023

I'm happy to present our new website. New cases has been added to the portfolio and older ones have been updated, and we have also added a whole new offering. Visit the new website, and let's get in touch and make some great work together.

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02/03/2023

When making illustrations, I usually go through many stages and images before I end up with the one that I believes works best. This one ended up on the cutting room floor, not because it was bad but it didn't had the right fit for the article. Though it didn't make it all the way to publication, I still think it's worth sharing.

The image is a composite of several images made with Midjourney, that was then manipulated in PhotoShop. Just a few month ago I would have worked with mostly stockphotos to make the collages but now I find that with AI, I can get the components I want much faster and more much precise.

12/12/2022

You can get some truly remarkable results with AI image generators, but I still haven’t found at viable business case apart from having your own image generator service. Stock photography agents doesn’t accept AI generated content, but they are themselves working on providing it as a service. Some media are using it for articles and in some cases as cover art for books and other publications. I think it might replace some illustrations, but I suspect that those publications would have used stock images and not commissioned artwork anyway. The generators will get better, and properly very fast, but I don’t think they will replace illustrators. The results can be stunning, but they usually lack personality and there’s a tendency to get a more uniform result. Image generator could be used as a supplementary tool in the creative process, such as visual brainstorming, mood boards or for effects in photography and photoshop work.

What do you think? Is there a viable business case in the creation part of image generators or can it only be found in providing it as a service or as a expense cutting solution?

17/09/2022

Invest your pension fond in a cool Ghost Skull t-shirt! Out now only on Mono Units.

Ghost Skull t-shirt in regular black or heather. 100% combed and ring-spun cotton, pre-shrunk and ready to wear.

18/05/2022

Konferencen WODCON XXIII åbnede i mandags og afvikles ind til på fredag d. 20. maj. På baggrund af konferencens visuelle identitet, har jeg designet websitet samt udviklet og implementeret Wordpress temaet. Sammen med Crone & Co har jeg løbende opdateret og vedligeholdt websitet siden det blev lanceret i 2020. I 2022 har jeg desuden designet og opsat mobil-app’en for konferencen. Tusind tak til Crone & Co for et fantastisk samarbejde, og held og lykke med afviklingen af konferencen.

Du kan se WODCON XXIII website ved at følge linket:

Copenhagen 16 - 20 MAY 2022

11/05/2022

Sidste år begyndte jeg arbejdet med at designe Planbørnefondens nye website og i dag er jeg rigtig glad for at kunne præsentere resultatet. Min del af arbejdet har været udvikling af UX og UI, der har resulteret i et modul baseret designsystem til understøttelse af implementeringen i det endelige website, daglig vedligeholdelse samt til videreudvikling af nyt indhold.

Det har været et sjovt og spændende samarbejde med et dejligt team fra Planbørnefonden – specielt tusind tak til Dorthe Petersen, Nanna Ørsted, Marianne Kaae og Christian Rønsberg, det har være en stor fornøjelse.

PlanBørnefonden er en del af Plan International, som arbejder i mere end 70 lande for at sikre børn og unges rettigheder og ligestilling for piger.​

11/05/2022

I sidste uge var jeg sammen med Crone & Co i Glasgow for at afvikle konferencen EMS2022, for EMS Europe. I 2016 udviklede jeg konferencens identitet, website og en lang række tryksager og jeg har i de efterfølgende år versioneret og videreudviklet på konceptet. Konferencen er en årlig begivenhed der kun har været afbrudt af Covid-19 pandemien. Derfor var i år ekstra speciel da det var første gang siden 2019, at den blev afholdt igen. Det var samtid også første gang hvor jeg selv deltog på selve konferencen – primært med vedligeholdelse og opdatering af indhold til konference-app’en. Det er altid spændende at se det design man har arbejdet på i flere måneder, endelig blive realiseret og taget i brug. Det blev til 5 hektiske og sjove dage, ikke mindst på grund af det fantastiske samarbejde med Camilla Müller, Lisa Damgaard Lindberg, Nanna Gerths og Dominika Olejnak fra Crone & Co. Det var fedt at se hvor professionelt og kyndigt de styrede slagets gang.

På mit website kan du læse mere om mit arbejde med EMS Europe, hvor der også er links til websitet - https://monovoce.com/works/ems-europe/

De tre første (og bedste) billeder i opslaget er taget af Ben Fitzhugh, resten er mine egne.

31/10/2020

I made this book cover design and illustration all the way back in 2007 and I'm still really happy with the results.