David Malki !Interview
Designer, cartoonist (Wondermark)
Adapted from David Malki !'s interview on Uses This, published 27 January 2015. 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 ↗
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In addition, I'm one of the co-editors of the Machine of Death series of short story anthologies, for which I recently designed and produced a storytelling card game spinoff, called Machine of Death: The Game of Creative Assassination.
Less interestingly, my main computer in the office is a dual monitor Mac Pro.
I've been using Intuos graphics tablets now for so long that I'm starting to lose my dexterity with a standard mouse.
Communication
Productivity
(I also email myself PDFs to my Kindle account.) Jumpcut is a clipboard extender that I'm absolutely useless without, anymore -- it automatically stores your last 30 or so clipboards, so you can copy and paste stuff asynchronously.
Browser
Notes
But I like Google Keep for short to-do lists and what I call "braindumps" -- just listing out everything I'm thinking about so I can free up mental RAM.
Coding & Development
Design
Media
I use Final Cut Pro to edit video (and podcasts and other audio-only stuff too -- it's a much easier program for me to use than dedicated audio programs).
MPEG Streamclip and Magic Bullet Grinder for converting and transcoding video files.
Storage
Other
I also do the art direction for the books published by TopatoCo, a comics publisher in Massachusetts, as well as other miscellaneous design projects, often for and/or with people involved in the world of webcomics.
I've just learned about Screenr, which creates screen recordings...
I'm also on Google Books all the time, poring through centuries' worth of public domain books and magazines.
and the KPCC app (my local public radio station) which nicely collects streaming archives of basically all the good public radio shows.