Jake HollandsInterview
Multi-disciplinary graphic designer
Adapted from Jake Hollands's interview on Uses This, published 22 September 2016. 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
As per Sean McCabe's recommendation I tend to use Micron pens, and often a cheap biro or whatever pencils are laying about.
Communication
Productivity
For project management I'll use Trello if I have others involved --- it was fantastic for beta testers on SPACEPLAN.
For independent management I'll use Agile on my phone --- it's very good for quick & simple task management.
Coding & Development
For game dev it's obviously Unity, although I've moved towards coding JS / HTML / CSS in Atom alone since I find it restricts thinking much less.
I'm getting into using git to stay organised, although I'm still experimenting with GUIs for Windows --- none of them seem too great.
Tower on Mac is lovely however.
Design
Media
I find Ableton quite intimidating so I grab my friend Logan whenever I need some polished audio done.
Other
I now work as a designer & front-end dev at Tui media, where I created my free web-game SPACEPLAN in downtime & my free time.