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They spent a year on the logo and ten minutes on the favicon.
Instagram · 18 Aug
Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide
YouTube · 6 Aug
A premium real estate site built on architecture and storytelling
LinkedIn · 12 Aug
Every listing photo is beautiful and every one is 4 MB
Website · 22 Aug
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YouTube
@studiofieldnotes
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9 Aug,
12 days ago
@studiofieldnotes
84
14 minutes ago
X, LinkedIn, Facebook
3 accounts
37
2 hours ago
Podcast
The Build Log · RSS
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fieldnotes.studio/journal · RSS
14
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They spent a year on the logo and ten minutes on the favicon.
A rebrand for a commercial interiors contractor whose favicon was still the theme default, sitting in every browser tab.
Instagram · 18 Aug · Post · 1,240 words
92
Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide
Why the photography was the whole argument for a Singapore builder, and how the old site buried it in thumbnails.
YouTube · 6 Aug · Video · 8:24
88
A premium real estate site built on architecture and storytelling
An editorial layout for a waterfront development instead of the usual stock render grid.
LinkedIn · 12 Aug · Post · 890 words
84
Rebuilding app UI as animated vectors instead of screen recordings
A behind the scenes breakdown of a 30 second product film, and why screen capture was the wrong tool.
Instagram · 5 Aug · Short · 0:52
79
They spent a year on the logo and ten minutes on the favicon.
A rebrand for a commercial interiors contractor whose favicon was still the theme default, sitting in every browser tab.
Instagram · 18 Aug · Post · 1,240 words
88
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They spent a year on the logo and ten minutes on the favicon.
Instagram · 18 Aug
Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide
YouTube · 6 Aug
Rebuilding app UI as animated vectors instead of screen recordings
Instagram · 5 Aug
Safety critical logic isolated into pure modules, 358 tests
Podcast · 1 Aug
Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide
YouTube · 6 Aug
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Drafting from your own work only counts if you can check it. Each section of the issue carries the piece it was written from, so you are editing a draft rather than fact checking a stranger.
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Field Notes
Issue 14 · 21 Aug
Three rebuilds where the old brand was worth keeping
Morning. Three separate projects this month ended up making the same argument, which usually means it is worth writing down properly.
Short version: most rebrands throw away equity they should have kept.
Their logo returned a 404
A commercial interiors contractor with 650 buildouts behind them had a favicon that did not load. Not the website, the icon file itself. It had been deleted at some point and nobody noticed, so every browser tab showed a broken document instead of a mark.
The old logo was a swoosh with the tagline baked in, which meant it was unreadable below about 40 pixels. So the fix was not a tidy up. The letter D became a doorway, built from one unit so it holds together at 16 pixels.
Two more from the same month, both variations on the theme. 1
- A Singapore builder had an award winning house on their site at 147 pixels wide. The photography was the entire argument and the old layout buried it.
- A real estate site that leant on architecture and storytelling instead of the usual stock render grid. The restraint is what made it feel expensive.
One thing from elsewhere that stuck with me this month, on why the cheapest looking part of a brand is usually the one people see first.
That is everything for this week. If you are sitting on a rebrand, the question worth asking first is what you would lose, not what you would gain.
1 Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide. (YouTube, 16 Aug)
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Award winning house, shown online at 147 pixels wide
YouTube · 6 Aug · Video · 8:24
They spent a year on the logo and ten minutes on the favicon.
Instagram · 18 Aug · Post · 1,240 words
A premium real estate site built on architecture and storytelling
LinkedIn · 12 Aug · Post · 890 words
Three pieces from one month, on three different platforms. None of them written for a newsletter.
What people say once the blank page is gone.
The change people describe is rarely about speed. It is that sending stopped being a decision they had to make every month.
I was publishing four or five times a week and still opening a blank document every month to write the newsletter. Now the draft is waiting, made of the things I already made, and I spend the hour editing instead of staring.
Video essayist
The citations are the part I did not expect to care about. I check the source under a paragraph, see it is my own post from three weeks ago, and send.
Newsletter writer
It flagged a section it could not ground in anything I had published, rather than making something up. That was the moment I trusted it.
Podcast host
With three platforms at my disposal and a single library to manage, I found myself facing a challenge that truly felt like a productive endeavor. Initially, I would only send updates whenever they crossed my mind, which was quite sporadic. However, I've now transitioned to a routine where I send updates every month, all without feeling like it adds any extra burden to my weekly schedule.
Independent designer
Connecting the podcast feed took a minute and it backfilled the whole archive. I had forgotten half of what was in there.
Studio founder
The sourced column is the only reporting I have seen that tells me something about the writing rather than about the sending.
Content lead
I stopped keeping a running note of things to mention. It is all in the library by the time I need it.
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