~4 years ago, we had a sliver of free time at Paravel, and wanted to experiment with creating an immersive-website-book-thingy for Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia complete with a vibey page design, illustrations, animations, and even audio.| trentwalton.com
To celebrate the release of the new Beasts of England typeface, Acorn, I made some quick typographic exploration designs based on the key areas from Super Metroid! I’m pretty hyped on how the set turned out.| Trent Walton
New music will be released via Echo Wolf! I’m aiming to release a steady stream of tracks every month or two.| Trent Walton
What if we expanded design thinking to encompass the entire product development process? Design systems have done wonders for helping organizations build digital products. With a design system in place, visual consistency is easier to maintain, components become reusable, and redundant work is reduced. With the right buy-in, design systems can do magical things for team collaboration. When contributors with different specializations (design, engineer, etc.) start looking at the same thing, pe...| Trent Walton
I’m excited to be releasing a few new tracks over the coming weeks/months. Hyperlight is going to be the peppy/optimistic album starter. Channeling 8-bit NES Rad Racer vibes, I wanted to go for a carefree-cruise-around-town feel. Enjoy, and thanks for the support! Listen/Buy on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Hyperlight single artworkHyperlight design outtake (but I still really like this one)I’m having a blast hacking together 3D models and experimenting with texture, li...| Trent Walton
Back in August I decided I wanted to make an instrumental synthwave album. As trying as the Summer was for many of us, I did my best to take advantage of all time w/ my 8 & 10-year-old boys. We hiked, swam, watched borderline-appropriate movies, and generally had a blast. At the house we were leasing, my office was right by the long circle driveway. I could hear them outside all day being awesome: racing bikes, climbing trees, busting rocks, sword fighting, etc. Their radness set the vibe for...| Trent Walton
I randomly started making music back in December. At the time, the only place I posted anything was Instagram stories. As short beeps evolved to songs, I built audio.trentwalton.com. Fast forward to April. When I had 12 songs I was pleased with, I decided to package them up for distribution/streaming. Let this post serve as a mini-release party for Monarch! Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen/Buy on Bandcamp No, there’s no vinyl edition, but designers gotta comp their dreams :)Wh...| Trent Walton
I’m proud of myself because this is merely a post about new fonts rather than a post about a blog redesign. The perfectly-dialed-in textures and vibe from Phil Coffman’s recent redesign nearly pushed me over the edge, though. Anyways, I did what any sensible designer would do after letting the blog sit for too long: buy fonts! I’ve had Grilli Type’s GT America on my font shopping list for a while. You’re reading GT America Standard Light + Light Italic now, and GT America Mono Regul...| Trent Walton
I’ve blogged about this before but wanted to post again now that the 4-season series has wrapped. A consistent detail throughout Mr. Robot was that the title cards seemed to capture the essence of the episode instantly. The (freeze) framing of a powerful image + music + the splash of red type across the screen always got me excited for what was in store. Potential spoilers below, but here’s a video with all four seasons worth of title card intro screens:| Trent Walton
I adore the high-contrast type, aged color pallette, and sci-fi concept painting here in the artwork for The Strokes’ new song, “At the Door.” Art direction and design by Tina Ibañez & painting by John HarrisI couldn’t help but track down the title font. I believe it’s Blackbarry NF by Nick Curtis. Then I saw the throwback-Hanna-Barbera-vibed video, which hits even harder. The titles here are set in Angelus Medieval (see also DXAngelus Mediaval).| Trent Walton
The more I build for the web, the more the term ‘device-agnostic’ endears itself to me.| trentwalton.com