On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Humble Bundles: A Question About a Specific Graphic Design Bundle

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:06:48 GMT

Looking for informed opinions on any or all of the books in this bundle:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/visual-design-branding-mastery-quarto-books

I've bought a 3D design tools bundle from Humble already, and am considering this as well. In addition to my question about the specific books, I'm considering that this may be one of the few legitimate ways for a Canadian to support the ACLU right now.

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Indigenous Type

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:02:00 GMT

I got wind of this via the League of Movable Type newsletter this morning, so it seems a good idea to share this with all of you reading this account. Because Indigenous type resources are part of the Comeback process as outlined by - among others - John Ralston Saul...

https://www.typotheque.com/blog/cherokee-osage-and-the-indigenous-north-american-type-collection

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Trek Fan Mapping, Continued: Five Projects Now

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 02:22:45 GMT

Works in progress, all, uploaded to DeviantArt a night or two ago:

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Dominion-War-Base-Map-28-March-2025-1176423191

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Coreward-From-the-Izar-Zakdorn-Line-28-Mar-2025-1176427032

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Taurus-Reach-And-Beyond-28-Mar-2025-A-1176436890

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Edge-of-Midnight-Disputed-Zone-28-Mar-2025-A-1176439292

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/RomulanZoneBaseMap-28Mar2025-A-1176456387

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Trying to Find a Font Match

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:59:30 GMT

I'm trying to find a font that's a good match to Breakaway because I'm looking at these Japanese words in kanji and kana...

宇宙
Uchū

アウタースペース
Autāsupēsu

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Jacket Shopping 2024

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:32:14 GMT

Trying to shop for a 4XL winter jacket for myself without travelling too far out of my neighbourhood. My current jacket is about 10 years old, and the design works for my brain. Trouble is that retailers have their own ideas about what I should be able to buy these days.
No buttons in front, zippered pockets...these are features to my brain, not design errors.

Looking for recommendations, not financial support.

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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress XX

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:54:20 GMT

All the Triangle systems from FASATrek are matched up to host stars. There's a couple of neutron stars or singularities or what have you left to decide "altitudes" on the Z-axis for, but that's it for the most part. Maybe I end up adding in things from some of the video games?

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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress XV

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:27:48 GMT

Update!

Fenris and Soroya and R'o and Deerlam and Mantiev (among others) are driving me batty!

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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress X

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:01:24 GMT

Here's what I have as of this morning:

Again: The Edge of Midnight, if you're interested in what inspired this.

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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress VI

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 01:23:22 GMT

May as well show it off here. It's a week old, and still...

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Maps: Edge of Midnight Base Map Progress IV

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:01:35 GMT

So this is where I was as of last night:

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/EoM-DisputedZone-7Nov2023-A-993252400

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Mapmaking: Starbase 20?

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:48:20 GMT

So I was looking at maps of the FASA-Trek roleplaying game as well as Memory Beta entries today while I job-searched. Had a thought about where Starbase 20 might be in a map that tries to fit FASA's Triangle region into a largely-Mandel-compliant design...

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-26-at-7-21-31-PM-990589585

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Astronomy Question: Memory and Star Catalogue Numbers

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:58:38 GMT

Which would you say is going to be easier to remember for a layperson? An SAO catalogue number or "BD ##º #####"?

I'm betting on the SAO number over the Bonner Durchmusterung.

Yes, this is for the Edge of Midnight base map project.

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In memory of Raymond Moriyama

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:05:53 GMT

I was privileged to see him speak at an event in 2012.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157631621214663

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Note to stormdog re: picture frames

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 02:06:34 GMT

I haven't forgotten that project we discussed a few days ago, and am actively looking for resources/tutorials to build one with.

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Maps: Edge of Midnight Base Map Progress

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:14:42 GMT

Okay, so I've been having fun reading this serialised Star Trek-linked fan-fiction dressed up as a history book called Edge of Midnight by John Concagh AKA "Seamus Devenish". So much so that I've started working on a "base map" to show his version of the affected regions of the Federation-Klingon border.

If you're interested in keeping an eye on my progress and you're not already on the relevant Discord or Facebook pages, I've got a thread running over at the Affinity forums, since Affinity Designer is what I'm using for this project.

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Film/TV: Prop Creation

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:09:26 GMT

No matter who designed a printed prop for any given TV show or movie made in California over the past century, it seems that one company managed to corner the market for printing them out:

If there are similar operations in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal...? I don't know who they are yet. I expect to find out.

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Portfolio Day

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:24:03 GMT

So I uploaded some stuff yesterday.

https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/110697734610007482

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Design: Brushes

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:18:29 GMT

Good evening, everyone.

Digital artists: you've all found yourselves gravitating to specific brushes in whatever programs you use, haven't you.

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Amplifying Calls for Help III: Timothy Earls

Mon, 29 May 2023 12:49:18 GMT

You've seen this guy's work on the TV and cinema screens across the decades, from at least Babylon 5 to Firefly/Serenity to Avengers: Endgame...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-timothy-martin-earls

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Highway Signage, Revisited Anew

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:47:48 GMT

So I subscribe to this mailing list called the Weekly Typographic, organized by the League of Movable Type. This week's instalment led me to an essay on highway signage as put together in the United States (and adapted to some extent in Canada as well):

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd/?mc_cid=6948264b0b&mc_eid=b51f2e7655

Yes, friends and acquaintances, there is a style guide for these things, and it runs currently to over 900 pages in hardcopy format.

All those road trips my parents took me on over the years of grade school and high school...they had an effect on my choice of hobbies. License plates, highway signs...this is a part of why I got involved with Spacing Media, of course, as well as developing interests in graphic design along with comic books and science fiction in TV and film. I think I've discussed this before. Many of you reading this remember that. It seems a good idea to cover that ground anew for some of the people just starting to visit regularly.

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Testing Another Avatar

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 04:08:52 GMT

Yeah, that one doesn't look great.

I look like a smug know-it-all. I don't remember what I was thinking when I took that one, but I clearly wasn't paying proper attention to either doing the photography or posing for it. So regular usage of that image file is not going to happen.

See you tomorrow.

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I need a different "default" avatar here

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 02:25:40 GMT

Content Warning: Pandemic safety stuff.
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Digital Sketch Challenge Sketch 3 - Bat

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 03:12:18 GMT

Of course, I'm going to draw that guy for this prompt. I did co-write a travel guide about his hometown back in 2000.

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Inktober as Inspiration, Not as Practice

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:03:23 GMT

I needed to review these links:

https://inktober.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Parker#Inktober

So, I can't claim to be participating fully, as I'm working digitally rather than with actual pens, fountain, cartridge, marker, ball-point and so on. I can and do claim this year's daily prompts as an inspiration to resume regular practice for self-improvement.

I'm going to have to amend my postings on Twitter and Facebook accordingly. Later today.

Meanwhile:

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WIP: Air Route Map - Canada - 14 Sept 2022

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:30:33 GMT

This is still a work in progress. I am not happy with legibiity of the place names, not yet. I've switched most of the labelling over to Helvetica for now, pending a decision on what to switch the labels to.

If you know of any communities and connections that I should add to this map, please tell me!

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