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David MacIsaac

@typography.bsky.social

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Brand design professional, video game enjoyer, power tool enthusiast. https://dmacisaac.com

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hey #PortfolioDay —

I’m David, a brand designer, and I make logos, brand style guidelines, websites, UI, decks, and bespoke typefaces.

I love working with video game studios and artists of all types. And I’m currently available for new projects.

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IG: @david.macisaac

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Eᴍᴍᴇᴛᴛ Fʀɪᴇᴅʀɪᴄʜs @emmettfried.bsky.social · Aug 27

Stumbled upon this study on the evolution of Strategy Game UI over the years by Treeform. Cool to see the reduction in screen real-estate
medium.com/@treeform/st...

Strategy Game Battle UI

I was doing research on trends in the Strategy Game UI styles. And you can see a clear pattern that starts with simple left or right bar…

medium.com

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Aug 20

Whoa I thought that was such a cool illustration whilst scrolling here, come to find it’s a screenshot… wishlisted so fast

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Aug 18

Me but with building Lego

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jul 17

Figma rolling out an actual entry in the effect dropdown for Apple’s Liquid Glass is not something I expected, but it’s pretty neato

Figma @figma.com · Jul 17

Let’s touch glass

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thought I would hate him but yeah I love him too

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jul 11

Brewed a Potion of Haste

Photo of a glass with ice and Monster Zero Ultra inside and coffee is being poured over it from a Hario coffee carafe. Behind the glass is a can of Monster Zero Ultra

Photo of a glass filled with ice and with half pourover coffee mixed with Monster Zero Ultra, and the glass is flanked by the can of Monster Zero Ultra and a Hario coffee carafe

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jun 25

Death Stranding 2 is consuming me, I love it. More than the thought of getting a walking pad for under a standing desk while I work, the thought of using a walking pad while playing DS2 is now probably going to put me over the edge to buying one today lol

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · Jun 25

Found a Ridge Racer Type 4 press disc on archive.org absolutely loaded with high-res renders. This is my Holy Grail.

📀 archive.org/details/redu...

A render of Ridge Racer mascot Reiko Nagase.

A render of a car with its doors and trunk open.

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today the discord found out that the bluesky logo SVG has — probably erroneously — what they’re calling a benis

A zoomed in crop of the bluesky butterfly logomark where there’s an anchor point error causing a very tiny spike between where the lower half of the wings meet

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jun 14

Beat another Night Lord last evening, can finally access new fashion options. The real Dark Souls begins here

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just beat the big doggie(s) in Night Reign for the first time (for me) with @fartdirector.bsky.social & @notexactly.bsky.social — played as Ironeye which apparently turns Elden Ring into a third-person action shooter _and I loved it_

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · Jun 5

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!

...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.

🧵 A thread:

Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, specifically), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.

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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · Jun 3

The APWOT Trilogy Reprint campaign is NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! 📚

Help us bring back these 3 timeless publications that are as creative and playful as the people and games featured within them: ⭐️ kck.st/4kjrqhj ⭐️

Sound on! 🔉

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 22

Regards/loyalty program that gave points for booting up certain games and buying new ones. I’ve gotten at least $50 of PSN credit from it over its lifespan, you just have to use the “points” for “rewards” (best among them being $5 or $10 of credit)

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 14

Really like the look of this app (seems legitimately useful for B&W photo enthusiasts, and it’s a one-time purchase; no subscription) and its marketing site: www.nuevo.tokyo/agbr

AgBr — B&W Film Emulator — Nuevo.Tokyo™

Process your photos with real B&W film emulations and film grain, generated in real time. All in a minimal, smooth interface. Crafted in Tokyo, based on long-term R&D using real modern and expired fil...

www.nuevo.tokyo

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 13

The new sans serif font family, GT Standard, from @grillitype.bsky.social is crazy good: gt-standard.com

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 11

War has changed

(also I hate to be like this but, in this case, the better mark to use would be registered trademark ® and not copyright © — just so everyone knows, for next time)

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 10

What pharmaceuticals did you use to complete your portfolio, and then promote yourself on social media without crippling anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, imposter syndrome, heavy procrastination, the urge to escape, depression, and/or shame? Asking for a friend

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 7

I guess this leak of Figma Sites was real after all, neat

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Apr 5

This screenshot excerpt of Figma shows a supposedly leaked new ability to create a “Website”

I first saw it on LinkedIn but it could have originated on twitter. It feels real, even if things like this are easily faked.

Really interesting to me, as someone who worked on a website builder for years…

A screenshot excerpt that shows a small part of Figma’s current UI, specifically the “Create” button and its dropdown menu which shows “Design file” “FigJam board” and “Slide deck” as options. Most notably, this screenshot shows a “Website” option as something that can be created now in the dropdown, and it has an “Alpha” tag next to it, presumably because the feature is still early and is being privately tested.

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · May 2

Hello, happy Friday. I wanted to publicly note that I’ll be moving internationally from Orlando, Florida to South Korea sometime at the end of June or early July with my partner.

This is a major move for us and I’m super excited. We’ve lived for months at a time there, but this time, it’s one-way ✈️

David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Apr 30

I hadn’t cleaned up my files for at least a year, so, it’s sort of like as close as I can get to a spiritual cleanse, a ritual, to wipe away the afterimage or scarred battlefield of old projects — which can accumulate so many files chaotically during their time — and stand ready for something new

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Spectra Foundry @spectrafoundry.com · Apr 30

Process.

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David MacIsaac @typography.bsky.social · Apr 30

Folks, I’m happy to report that we are down to only 43 unsorted files in the Download folder, and the number is dropping steadily

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Jordan Rosenberg @rsnbrgjrdn.bsky.social · Apr 25

No.164 for My Famicase Exhibition 2025 at METEOR in Tokyo. The characters depicted here are fictitious and any similarity to actual persons is purely coincidental. #famicase

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