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Credit: https://www.peculiarmanicule.com/197071-hallmark-calendar/

I tried searching for ink blot brush but there were no results that looked exactly like this. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_WBdqPv9i9/

Are there any (preferably free) plugins or techniques that allow a more blotchy style of stroke width, but also not overboard with fake textures. Thank you

Preferably geometric and have consistent line width. Thanks

Has anyone done this before? If so, how? Thank you

From a 90’s Thinkpad laptop. It doesn’t hold a charge anymore so I am thinking to solder in new cells, but I have not worked with batteries before so seeking advice. Thanks

This battery is from a 90’s IBM Thinkpad 380 laptop. It obviously does not hold a charge anymore, I have (carefully) cracked open the plastic housing and thinking to replace these cells with off the shelf parts. How should I approach this? Thanks

Found this spring rattling inside the internals, but I can’t seem to find where it’s supposed to go. Any advice would be appreciated.

I see graphic design from the 70s-80s which have this extremely uniform, united feel with typography and graphics that are bold. Even packaging as insignificant as a bottle of oil was well designed. Compare this to modern day graphic design which often just looks like someone slapped a bunch of text in microsoft powerpoint and called it a day.

More importantly, what techniques and philosophy were employed in this era that created this uniform and united feel?

For large scale advertisements, posters, etc, it would be more appealing for it to be a colour halftone pattern instead of pixels up close.

All of these are from 1980s national geographic magazines

The Hermes Baby feels much sturdier and has a smoother type action compared to the skyriter, and overall feels better quality.