Unrequired Reading, 33

It's been a hobby heavy August creating lots of artwork and photographing new things going on locally. The sun has actually reared it's head too, I'm just back from a wedding which had the perfect weather.

• It's Nice That chats with Mr Bingo as part of Nicer Tuesdays
  The first link this week is not for the easily offended, Mr Bingo is a great comedy artist. I have lots of his work and it makes me smile every time. It's a new level of cheeky and edgy, this talk dives into his motivations and process.

• A bunch of Illustrator Scripts to do all sorts of complex tasks
  Whenever I think I have a reasonable understanding of Adobe Illustrator I very much am humbled. I was looking to join a bunch of overlapping paths together and the join tool would take me all day. I saw a reference to one of these scripts and saw Join Reasonably which did exactly the job I needed it to, join all reasonably close paths in a document. This is a must have if you work with vectors.

• 10 Truths on building design orgs at scale
  Rachel Kobetz provides training on Maven and publishes a blog called defining experience, this post about 10 truths couldn't be more accurate. If you're an emerging design leader pay attention to these and prepare for them to be true as you scale.

• James Clear on Creativity
  I've tried to read Atomic Habits a few times but for whatever reason it doesn't stick. However this article from James Clear on creativity had me hooked. Creativity is one of those things that is assumed either a divine issued skill or not part of their being. It is a muscle you build by doing creative things and think of this as a way to build your exercise guide.