Parakeet

When we set out to found Parakeet, we were certain that we wanted nothing more than to hone our craft together in perpetuity. The early days were full of experimentation and inquiry as we sought to balance our strengths and develop a unified perspective...

Today is the 128th Icon of the Day! To celebrate such a nice, classic icon number, we’re celebrating with this really fun disco ball from the 285 glyphs we created for Patreon. It’s so abstracted from the actual object, yet still recognizable!
To focus on our brand new blog, we’re pausing Icon of the Day at this time. 128 seemed like a good number to rest on....

Luka and I have been talking about what the best way would be to show people more about Parakeet. Is it video? Is it audio? Could a podcast be viable when our work is so visual? What about long-form writing? What if we had a blog?
A self-hosted blog allows us the best presentation possible, without concerning ourselves with the restrictions of other platforms. While we won’t rule out any of those other things, this feels like a good fit for the topics we want to discuss....

A little while ago, we crafted a full set of chess glyphs for Deep Green on iOS. Each one was meticulously drawn from its 3D model in the app, with special care to clearly indicate their relative hierarchy in the lineup.