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Author: Kjell Reigstad Stories

Author: Kjell Reigstad Stories

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    Hundreds of Tiny Arrows

    I recently hand-drew hundreds of tiny arrows for a Longreads illustration. It took about four hours, with a few breaks to check Slack and refill my chai. I knew I could have drawn a few arrows and duplicated them in Photoshop. I would’ve added some brush strokes to differentiate them from each other, and it…

    Hundreds of Tiny Arrows
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    The “Smashing Things Together” Approach to Editorial Illustration

    In my role on the Editorial team, I end up touching a lot of different parts of Automattic. I work on learning resources, company blogs, highlighting great users, longform publishing, and brand work, with the occasional theme and conference design thrown in. This sort of variety is absolutely amazing, and one of my favorite things about working…