Carolyn Porter

In light of ***waves hands around*** I'll be using Twitter less. If you need to reach me, please message me via another method.

Am I up for another social platform? We'll see. You can find me at porterfolio.bsky.social

@LindaWonder @thelizmaguire do you know about this magical place?!

Oh stop where is this??

@gtypefoundry Yaaaasss. Lovely!

#typedesign #type #WIP

@TGOT_msp This one might take more time b/c it's more complex (though same process). It would also require a conversation since the converging lines appear to have some anomalies (i.e. do you want to keep those anomalies or clean them up)? Send me a DM if you'd like to talk specifics!

@TGOT_msp Any graphic designer with proficiency in Adobe Illustrator should have the skill. It would help to have someone skilled with working with type, too.

@TGOT_msp Are you talking about the blue oval "EAA" with the plane and white loop? $ guess = Somewhere between $250-$450 for faithful/careful vector reproduction + files (assuming you'd want files for future use in vector + bitmap formats).

@rhughesphd Thank you for sharing.

RIP Dwayne. Friends please I am requesting that you not simply offer condolences as I am asking if you will consider reading this in its entirety as this is a tribute to this man and it is a lesson to be learned. You just never know who is being kind to you. Dwayne left us today. I am heartbroken. He was my neighbor two apartments down from mine on the 10th floor in the building I live of 170 apartments. Every Saturday Dwayne would take his red scooter and go outside to the parking lot and work on any issues with cars regarding maintenance for anybody here who had requested help during the week. All on his time and of his free heart. No payment. Most of the people in my building do not get out and we have tons of packages delivered every day from Amazon. If Amazon does not put the packages at our door then Dwayne would gather them in shopping carts and put them outside all the doors of the apartments. It could take an hour to do this. More days of the week than not. He never called me Robert, he only called me young man. I once ran into him at a gas station half a mile away where he was sitting in his scooter talking to anybody and everybody who would walk by and the whole town knew him. This afternoon I saw packages downstairs and I was expecting a delivery myself and I thought how unusual that Dwayne who has a deep baritone voice was not heard of all day and the packages were there late this afternoon. I knocked on his door. My heart told me to call the police for a welfare check. When the police came back outside of his apartment to the hall they informed me that it appeared he died in his sleep. I am heartbroken. We all are. He worked on cars just 2 days ago. Totally unexpected. 71 years old. I cannot believe what I discovered an hour later. I called the head of our maintenance on our emergency line and I spoke to Ron and I said please contact Renee. Renee came to our apartment and addressed the residents in our community room. She is our landlord. She asked to talk to me afterwards. Some of you may remember I made a post about 5 weeks ago about the powerful storm in the Detroit area that knocked out 200,000 residents homes without power including most of Ann Arbor and nearly all of Ypsilanti. I was in the hospital having had surgery. Upon discharge as a courtesy from a friend I stayed at a hotel. It was a heat wave in the 90s and all the residents in my building were staying with friends and relatives in the few pocket areas that did have power and I was fortunate to have a hotel room where I could continue to recover with electricity. After 3 days at the hotel and the power having returned I took an Uber back to my home. Dwayne heard me and knocked on my door and said young man where have you been. I told him I had stayed at a hotel and he shared with me how he stayed at his sisters. He said, " I was worried about you cuz I haven't seen you and the rest of us got back right away. I want your number so I know how to reach you when I don't see you for days." My friends this evening Renee told me something I previously did not know. While I remained in my apartment for a couple of days recuperating upon my return to our building he went around to all the residents telling them that, "Robert has been accounted for and he is safe. " I burst into tears and Renee's office. I never knew that. I'm still losing it as I sit here telling you this story. These are the unspoken acts of kindness that we don't see and we lack an awareness of them because of someone else's humility and for some people gossip is more enticing. The truth wins though. We live in such a good world and I wish this is what we would broadcast as these are the stories that sustain us enabling us to thrive. Thank you Dwayne and rest in peace. I will never forget.

@EvaSilvertant WHAT? This is cooooool.

An ink bleed axis! So cool to see the script letters bleed ink as they are written.

Nearly 10 years ago, I met a Congressman from rural MN who drove around for hours to help a single Veteran get a pair of hearing aids so he could hear his dying wife’s voice. Never would have guessed then that #TimWalz would be in running for VP. youtu.be/kqoqiM5VGQk?si…

@aledzn satellite launch

Quick question: What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see this logotype?

@riomadeit 45 rpm adapter

What do you see in this logo?

@EvaSilvertant May be hard to decipher, but I'm swooning over that 'W' in Wild. Dang, that's beautiful.

Division (c. 2022) by Alff Rosine. One of the tamer script faces by Rosine, but it’s so wild and wonderful. A few letters that may be harder to decipher are the ‘P’ (Pianos), the ‘W’ (Wild), the alt ‘W’ (Wholly), and the ‘X’ (Xanthic). Gorgeous caps though—especially G/E/M!

@RockyRoark Two separate phone lines. Work phone = M-F 9-5, personal cell phone (which clients don't have) = evenings/weekends.

Freelancers, how do you maintain work-life boundaries when working from home?

@WesleyBancroft Top right for the mark; I'd tone back the abstract color under the type.

If you were the client, which would you choose? [For an AI finance company.]

@iox f + d

What do you see in this logo? 🤔

@aaronklemz Wishing you well, Aaron.

Last "normal" day for a while - I'm headed to Mayo Clinic tomorrow to get ready for major surgery on my neck and skull to relieve pressure on my brain stem and optic nerve. I've been experiencing dizziness and nystagmus for a couple of years and look forward to some relief. (1/3)

@EvaSilvertant The retro-vibe polka dot is super cute, to be fair. Purchase might be mandatory.

Damnit, I really shouldn’t be buying more dresses, as I have plenty. But these are so cute! I recently got one that vaguely looks like the left one, but I could really use a retro-vibe polka dress! No need for new dresses practically speaking, yet I feel such a strong need. 😆

@gtypefoundry Yaaassss. Love this.

@SenTinaSmith Yeah. I just got hit with a late fee b/c it took more than three weeks for a credit card payment to be delivered. Not the end of the world, but a bummer.

Delayed mail. Canceled deliveries. Faulty reporting. The most recent report from the Inspector General confirms what I’ve been hearing from constituents - there are serious issues with postal operations in Minnesota.