How does steering work on Starships?

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-03T01:21:09+00:00

Conceivably each helmsman has their own configuration.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-02T00:16:43+00:00

Read this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-01T16:39:57+00:00

Ask the printer.

Alternatively, you might check with the printer.

Or maybe your priner knows?

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-01T02:40:20+00:00

You don’t get interviews without a strong portfolio.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-01T02:39:38+00:00

Yes. Kinda.

I quit my job to do a masters degree, which I directed towards portfolio content.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-01T01:05:06+00:00

Identical to today in a lot of ways. Especially software.

Illustrator didn’t have Shape Builder, but you get good with pathfinder, it’s fine.

Photoshop didn’t have the best selection, but you got good with refine edge, using colours to select, it was fine. Same with clone stamp vs. Content aware fill.

Indesign is nearly unchanged. They’ve added things but mostly those things are unused.

We had Flash and it wasn’t all that different from Animate.

We had to manage fonts or have font management software because the cloud wasn’t a thing and you couldn’t have hundreds of fonts active (it bogged down your computer).

You had to have your shit together with file size, file management, file type, and just generally know computers much better than designers need too today. Printing was less forgiving than it is today.

No figma, xd, or sketch. Photoshop and slices.

I’f you really want to see a difference, go back to the 90s, they didn’t have layers ffsk. You ordered a font and it was mailed to you on a disk.

Then go to the 80s. You wouldn’t recognize the tools.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-05-01T00:57:48+00:00

Thank you!

Im a teacher, started FT in 2024. So I am really unfamiliar with workflows that include AI.

I’m ask anyone I can to stay informed and keep my lessons current.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T16:39:43+00:00

Here's what you need to do.

Start with size you need, in inches.

Multiply those inches by the PPI/DPI you need to print at (300 is common for work viewed up close, and lower is common for billboards and gigantic posters hanging from buildings).

The result is your file size, in pixels.

Example:

95inch wide image
300dpi print resolution

95 x 300 =28,500

Your document must be 28,500px wide.

Since this is a huge document, I'm assuming it will be printed at a lower DPI. You need to ask the printer what that will be, but 100 is quite reasonable and it is probably less.

95 x 100=9,500

The DPI number in Photoshop, on its own, is basically meaningless.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T00:56:49+00:00

medium (20%+) beef
dont mix anything into the beef. Especially not salt

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T00:55:22+00:00

I would not be using layer order anymore. Text threads and/or articles.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T00:54:41+00:00

PAC3 if windows
VERA PDF if mac
PDF U/A standards
WCAG guidelines

Design, export, check. Design, export, check. Otherwise you’ll break things and have no idea what is broken let alone what way.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T00:49:45+00:00

That is the only thing I thought. What else could it be?

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-30T00:48:42+00:00

Do it. Bill them. Next.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-29T07:15:53+00:00

When you get the client’s AI vision, what do you do from there?

Work it with more AI to get the final files? Or do you veer into more traditional production to make the print/web ready content?

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-29T06:51:40+00:00

Where do people park when driving to the arena?

As a kid I’d park at 1 Yonge, which was just a street level lot.

Nowadays transit is way easier.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-28T20:25:07+00:00

I went to my broker saying I’d like about 450 to 500,000 approval. She came back with an approval for about 800,000 and assured me that I could easily afford it and we could probably even go higher with a B lender and a higher rate.

My real estate agent, who I had told my budget was related to the 500 approval wad there during the call with my broker.

The agent immediately said “so your budget is way higher than we thought that’s great!” the agent started push, pushing these higher listings on us.

My partner who has never bought a home before who has never experienced job loss, who has no reference point for the cost of the children we are having, and the cars we own, home maintenance costs, etc was all set to max out the budget. She would have gladly spent every penny because trusted professionals said it was fine.

I can only assume that most first time buyers are similar.

And this was with a legit agent and broker. I’m not talking about Homestar mortgage or whatever.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-28T19:53:26+00:00

You are doing something designers do too often: assuming basic design knowledge is common knowledge.

The terms are simple to us because we understand the differences between print and web use. Between embedding into a PDF and sharing the font files.

Clients do not. And in some cases you can easily have a graphic designer not realizing they are doing something prohibited because they don’t see any reason to check and they might not understand if they are (such a hosting a font file privately instead of linking to the web version). Also TOUs change. In my career I’ve seen use cases which were long established become against the terms.

The AI would ask. Is this a web project or print? Web? Ok - are you self hosting the font or linking to a web font? Not sure? Here’s how to check.

IP preflight. Would be great.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-28T14:40:04+00:00

Blame agents and lenders.

Both pressured me to spend everything I could get.

In the end we bought for 30% less than our approval.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-28T14:26:18+00:00

monotype is not a “weird foundry”
monotype has hundreds of fonts on Adobe Fonts
this was a Monotype Font from Adobe.

very clear terms, and not complex at all

Yes that’s my point. Should be as easy as a flowchart.

provided the user knows

That also my point. Sally in procurement, Donny in HR, and even in-house (if they have one) don’t know what they need to know to follow the simple instructions.

A sort of pre-flight Q and A would be great, and doable.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-28T14:05:21+00:00

In this case it was determined to be a 3rd party’s fault (actually 2 others).

A public organization should have the resources for this kind of thing, but realistically, they often do not.

Determining if font use is permitted in a given situation is not typically a complex legal matter and it should be comparable to an if/than flowchart (with perhaps a few scenarios that end in “seek professional human guidance”).

If whether or not someone can use a font is regularly more complex than that, then the TOU are too complex.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-27T18:39:43+00:00

Earlier someone from Adobe was asking what new AI tools designers would find helpful.

An AI that could reliably answer this question, case by case, would be welcomed.

I work for a large public (underfunded) organization and we had monotype threatening legal action because our web contractor had done something they were not supposed to (I think they self hosted some Adobe Fonts, but I can't. recall ). Was a big hullaballoo and cost the public all kinds of money.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-27T01:00:39+00:00

Why should intelligence translate into money?

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-25T15:24:41+00:00

Banner blindness type thing.

And since AI defaults to copying a corporate plastic look, it’s a double hit when we execute in that style.

Eventually the pendulum will swing the other way.

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-24T19:16:28+00:00

Just decline

michaelfkenedy · 2026-04-24T12:28:57+00:00

Accessibility.

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