Hello, Creative Amigos. Here's issue #27 of Studio Notes—quick bits delivered to you each Friday.

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Last month on the Women Designers You Should Know podcast, host Amber Asay talks to Amy & Jen Hood about the legendary Susan Kare. Susan's pioneering design work at Apple for the original Macintosh has always been such a massive inspiration to me. A big bonus is getting the Hoodzpah origin story as well, who continue to crank out amazing branding and type work.

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One of my top favorite movies is Interstellar. "Emotional sci-fi" is a genre I tend to gravitate to (pun intended). If you're also a fan, you might dig this faithful recreation of the watch that appeared in the movie on the wrist of main character Murph. With the word ‘Eureka’ printed in Morse code in lacquer on the seconds hand. It'd be neat if they intentionally made the seconds hand jump around randomly to make you think Cooper was trying to communicate you from the future.

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Crossover is a fun app from Robb Knight that lets you answer, "Where else have I seen that actor?" Pick two TV shows and it'll show you the actors that crossover both. There's even a version for medical shows, specifically. 

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This explanation of why we have ocean tides from Neil deGrasse Tyson kind of blew my mind. The tides don't actually come in or go out, but rather the Earth rotates into a fixed "bulge" between it and the moon.

What are you working on?

After finishing the Cartridge update, I'm now back chipping away at Scorekard. I dug up some old art and gave it new life to take a few of the letters for a spin. The knot, for those wondering, if the mighty Bowline Knot (pronounced boh-lynn). It's a classic sailing knot good for creating a super-strong loop.

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