Some pretty big improvements to the basic hitRECord record card design are in the midst of being developed. Super excited for these!

• Simplified drawer


• Much better use of horizontal space


• More useful header with reduced portrait


• Works elegantly with and without descriptions


• Longer titles


• And, most importantly, BIGGER videos and images!

Posted for the people who were wondering about improvements to the drawer.

This is still in development and will take awhile to deploy, but here's a list of coming features, changes, and improvements.

• removed "re:" button – this was confusing and rarely used (remarks will be written in the conversation itself)


• icons records (for text, audio, video recs) show up and are linked


• full resource and result list (not just top six)


• now in list form with rec type icon rather than thumbnail (this will help speed the whole site up) and let you see at a glance the full resources and results without clicking through (though you can still click through to see the full thumbnail listing as before)


• ability to flag records that may not be original or are suspected of copyright infringement or other TOS violations for moderators to review


• list of albums and collaborations that the record appears in


• list of the author's tags (linked!) plus the ability for the community to add tags (the author can always remove community tags s/he doesn't approve of)

As I said, these are very big changes, particularly to the back-end coding, so don't exactly deprive yourself of oxygen while you wait. But I thought I'd share the design development work since people have been asking for a lot of these features and we've been listening!

One more teaser preview of the coming development work.

• The remark field is moved out of the drawer and to the top of the conversation window


• ability to subscribe (!) to threads [and then get notification badges of new messages on the Conversation page


• sorting toggles for comments


• ability to only view remarks (filter out results and recommendations) to just read the pure conversation.

Again, no breath-holding... but this stuff is indeed coming!

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A new font I've been working on. You can download the semi-beta-ish version here.

A little thing I made today for no reason.

Friday Night at The Made Shop

Finishing up the 3rd and pre-final draft of the hitRECord RECollection anthology book with a little bit of help from my friends (Mr. Lebowski & Rye).

Final press file due in Iceland on Monday. It’s gonna be good. Very good.

Checking final hard proofs all the way from Iceland and specifying final cover fabric and foil stamping colors for hitRECord's RECollection Volume 1 packaging!

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I apologize for not getting this up earlier — apparently whatever bug on the site that was affecting videos on Friday and Saturday also wouldn't let me upload large ZIP files. But the bug is fixed and I got this up.

Sorry to everyone who already started working and had to rebuild all this stuff yourselves :(

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After four rounds of cover foil stamping mock-up proofs from the printers I think we've finally settled on all the right materials, finishes, and colors. It's gonna be sexy.

Just wanted to see this in black and white with a bit of texture...

Exciting news everyone! As hitRECord continues to expand so does The Made Shop.  And my roll as hitRECord's Creative Director is growing and taking on The Made Shop with it!

Come meet the staff.  Kim, whom I'm sure some of you know is our Manager and nothing would ever get done without her. 

And I want to introduce Adam our new new Project Designer and a serious drummer! He is doing a lot of front end coding for hitREcord, making it all look pretty with new features and what not.  Plus he will be acting as a Resident Curator as well, so look out for him, his hitRECord name is acb.

This is not only great for The Made Shop but it is also really going to be a huge improvement for hitRECord! Updates to the site and overall design are going to be happening a lot more frequently now and I had to share!

Thanks.

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I thought this might make a really great chorus to a song, or else a tiny story.

(I picture it repeated with long gaps between lines, so the meaning changes each time more is added to the phrase — starting negative, moving to ambivalent, getting nearly nihilistic, but then ending with the hint of redemption. (e.g. "I'm tired." I'm tired of being tired." I'm tired of being tired of being tired." "I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being."))