Danielle BaskinInterview
Art director, bike helmet painter (Inkwell Helmets)
Adapted from Danielle Baskin's interview on Uses This, published 21 January 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My computer is a 21.5" iMac, which lives in my studio on a cramped, paint-covered desk.
Its portable companion, the iPhone 5S, is like a laptop to me, and lives a busy life in an OtterBox.
Both devices communicate with my all-powerful, but not all-in-one, HP LaserJet Pro 200, which excels at both mundane and elaborate tasks - like printing shipping labels really fast or printing UV-protected color images on vinyl.
My paints are Golden Open Acrylics, which are an amazing simulation of oil paint.
Super fine lines appeal to me both aesthetically (I like thin fonts too, like Helvetica Ultra-Light) and functionally (better for details and looks precise without precision), so I typically use drawing tools like .2 mm Micron pens and extra-fine tip DecoColor paint pens.
Something I'm looking forward to getting soon is a 3Doodler, which is a pen that lets you draw in three-dimensions.
Communication
Send emails at 8:17 AM with Boomerang (now you know, 8:17 AM Danielle is a cyborg).
Productivity
Browser
My browser of choice is Chrome.
Notes
I organize all my Internet findings on Evernote.
Coding & Development
Code some things in Sublime Text 2.
Design
Media
Other
I also have a Citi Bike membership, which is my one-way trip bike, bike-to-train bike, rainy day bike, lend-a-friend-a-bike bike, and backup bike.
I read blogs and comics through Feedspot, which is like the new Google Reader.
Artsy is a good tool for discovering artists.
Google Cultural Institute is an incredible site for looking at magnified artwork.
Spinlister is a great way to rent a bike while traveling, though I don't really leave New York that often.
Run my company website through Shopify.