Hello! Welcome to another issue of Inspired By, a monthly(-ish?) newsletter from your friend Jan-Paul Koudstaal. .

🏙️ Highrises

This project reveals fascinating details and stories of American skyscrapers, including many that are underappreciated. Currently at 111 images from 12 cities, I expected to see many buildings from NYC, but those are not (yet) part of the collection. (via Bram)

Highrises - HYTHA.CG

Highrises are the iconic elements of American cities. Reaching radical new heights in technological advancement, skyscrapers fused Classical, Renaissance, and Gothic motifs onto steel and defined a new architectural language with Art Deco and International.

📕 Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words

A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence. Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.

Adding this to my long list of books to read. (via Ruben)

You download it for free (!) or read it online:

Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive

Discover the new digital book Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence, and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.

🏋️‍♀️ Fit Font

This issue’s header font is FIT, designed by David Jonathan Ross. FIT is a hyper-stylized series of caps designed with one thing in mind: filling up space with maximum impact. Reminded me of drawing letters when you’re bored in class (or during a meeting…)

Fit | David Jonathan Ross

Fit makes text fit

📊 Georgia Lupi

Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this talk (from 2017) Giorgia shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives. (via Cansu)

Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data | TED Talk

Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives.

🗼 Luis Mendo

Luis Mendo is a Spanish illustrator that lives in Tokyo. Watch this short film to get to know him and see him work from his tiny studio.

✌🏻 Framer Tips

Tried out Framer a little bit and I love the simplicity of designing a website in a Figma-like UI, with pages, states, animation and one-click publishing. And it even has a CMS built in for easy blogging — but I couldn’t find a prev/next link to add to a blogpost.

I’ll play around with it some more and this resource with bite-sized videos will come in handy.

Framer Tips

Bite-sized videos covering Framer Sites features and updates.

🤩 Gela

I thought the Framer Tips logo looked nice, so I looked up the font Benjamin used: it is Gela by Polytype.

Polytype is Lewis MacDonald’s independent type foundry based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering high-quality original retail typefaces and custom type services since 2016.

😏 A Mid Century

A valid question (via Chris)

A Mid Century – Eaton Print Shop

Artwork printed on museum-grade paper with pigmented archival inks and a matte finish. • 175 gsm fine art paper• 9x11in, 11x14in, or 16x20in• Matte finish• For indoor use  Note: Due to the production process of these posters, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance +/- 1/16in. All sales are final, but

🤓 Kinference

If you follow me somewhere you’ve probable seen me post this, but if not: here’s a thing I wrote about my experience at Kinference, a small, friendly web conference in Brooklyn.

Kinference ’23 — Part 1 of 2. Back in 2012, 2013 and 2014 I had the… | by Jan-Paul Koudstaal | Apr, 2023 | Medium

Back in 2012, 2013 and 2014 I had the privilege to attend Brooklyn Beta, a small conference with friendly people working on the web. It…

That’s it! Thanks for reading and until next time! 👋🏻