Figma Film Illustrations

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Figma is a design application similar to Sketch, except better. It's versatile especially in team contexts, offering easy standardization & organization of components within a project's design system. And it spits out CSS. It's not good CSS but it's a place to start. As a front-of-the-front-end web person, I've come to appreciate this feature greatly. Most of my work in Figma relates to prototyping/UI/UX. Today I deviated to make these illustrations:

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You may notice some uneven lines, imparting a "handmade" feel. I appreciate the rough, illustrative quality which surfaces. I feel like it's balancing a lofi preference against a hifi medium.

Shooting on film I'll sometimes note the coordinates of individual frames as I may wish to precisely revisit the location at a later date, or at least retain location data. Now I associate my GPS with the act of photographing analogously.