Dennis is a designer with 10 years of experience in building design teams and products used by millions of people (Uber, Facebook, Dave, KW). Available for design advising and product validation services.

Dennis Cortés - Designer & Music Producer

https://salvun.com/products/event-horizon-artisan-set

https://protozoa.studio/products/event-horizon-artisan-sets

A clear, purple, and yellow modded Gameboy Advance in a direct sunbeam

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

https://figma.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317020734613/WN__WcB7nR7QPuQil39w_ZYMw#/registration

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1334458427431236428/central-icon-system

Photo of a big, white and yellow glass sculpture suspended from the ceiling of an atrium at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI. It is Gilded Champagne Gardens Chandelier by Dale Chihuly

Text: Reading is my passion Drawing: A person with a phone in their hands and a book in their lap. A person with a book in their hands, distracted by the passing of a fly. A person napping with a book on their face.

Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.

Project Tapestry

Lilac Neo70 keyboard with GMK Symbiote keycaps. On top is a vinyl beetle toy by Christopher Lee

Build better with Web Awesome, the open source library of web components from Font Awesome. Upgrade to Pro and ship websites faster!

Web Awesome

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/web-awesome

Intro text from my website set in Ohno’s new geometric sans typeface: “Hi! I’m Noah Jacobus, icon sommelier & design guy.”

Raw aluminum Kei v2 keyboard with GMK Mecha Kaiju keycaps. Underneath is a magical pattern deskpad

Screenshot from a Figma Community email, showing that interest in Chunk 3 has skyrocketed this past week. 1658 views, 756 copies, 62 saves

Aqua blue Cycle7 keyboard with GMK Analog Dreams keycaps

A long wooden dock into a lake, framed by trees at the entrance. There’s a black dog out there on it.

David Lynch with a megaphone: “Okay, let’s try that again, but this time good.”

CHUNK is a set of 600 consistent & commonly-needed glyphs, all tailored to look nice and sharp at 16px.  Let me know any feedback or requests for future additions 🙂  New in v3 (1/11/2024)  Chunk now comes in 3 fresh flavors: Filled, Hollow, and Duo!All 300 glyphs from v2, many redrawn for consist...

Chunk Icons | Figma Community

Cherry blossoms with bright blue sky behind

A stack of 4 Font Awesome playing cards: king of hearts, ace of hearts, 10 of hearts, and a red-patterned card back.

Two new keyboards on my desk:

- Navy Neo70 with GMK Metropolis keycaps
- Green & white Mode Sonnet with GMK Botanical keycaps and a white oak accent

Big grid of overlapping, outlined Chunk icons on a cream background. Overlaid on top is a big, yellow “2K”

Hexagonal, frosty polycarbonate coaster inlaid with a triangular brass motif. It’s standing up on its edge over a lit surface.

Evening light bouncing off a neighbor's window on some white house siding, making a little sunny patch on some climbing plants

Grid of chunky, outlined icons on a dark background. Down the middle are a bunch of sequential years, with 2024 in bright yellow right in the center.

Close up, wide angle photo of a slightly sparkly, light purple Neo70 keyboard chassis. It hasn’t been built yet, and you can see the magnetic PCB connectors underneath.

How to design sound that elevates software and won't drive you crazy

The Sound of Software | !Boring Software

https://www.notboring.software/words/the-sound-of-software

Some stark light coming into my office, highlighting the standing desk. There’s a monitor with a MacOS 9-inspired background, keyboard, mouse, lamp, mice arm, and various tchotchkes.

Sunny and snowy photo of the maple sugar shack at Blandford Nature Center in Grand Rapids, MI. Shot on a Fujifilm X-T5

A black boxer/lab with sleepy brown eyes looking up from her grassy bed

“Font Awesome: Make the Font Be With You” in Star Wars style 😎

Got a real camera and I’m gonna learn how to use it 📸

Eating eggs in my new @cv shirt feels appropriate 🍳

Welp, I was laid off from my role at Northstar due to budget cuts 💔

If you have design needs for freelance or full time roles please let me know! 

Shares, leads, and kind words are very much appreciated 😊

My website: https://cortes.us

Released a set of 4 low-profile artisans matching the Event Horizon or Supermassive finish. Pre-order is open to anyone (not just raffle winners)!

EU: https://salvun.com/products/event-horizon-artisan-set
US & UK: https://protozoa.studio/products/event-horizon-artisan-sets

My office gets some real special light at the end of the day

The fam and I will be in NYC for a few days in January. What are the best things to do with a 5-year-old in wintertime Manhattan?

I and @jory will be speaking next week with the fine folks from Figma all about how we developed our Font Awesome talk for Config 2023.

Sign up and ask us some questions!

https://figma.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317020734613/WN__WcB7nR7QPuQil39w_ZYMw#/registration

The @figma.design  plugin for the central icon system is live 🙌🏽

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1334458427431236428/central-icon-system

Welcome to the intermittent reading club 🫠

Storyboarding a little promo video to show off Chunk at Config this year 👀

I’m a simple man. The Iconfactory launches something, I back it.

It’s Friday — go ahead and break containment.

Been zhuzhing this up for the past few weeks, and it went live earlier today! And then funded in less than 2 hours! 😱 Even if you’re not a web dev person, check it out for the video alone.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/web-awesome

I hate NDAs. Designers have to be silent for most of their tenure at a company. When they leave, they have to sneak their work out for their portfolio or they’ll have nothing to show employers. 

We get hired based on what we make, but we can’t talk about or show what we make.

Yes I’m mid-website redesign right now, but I may have to start over just so I can use Ohno Polymath 🥵

Welp, my old job released a new website and removed my big blog post about icon design fundamentals 😅 Time to update and host it myself!

It’s been an amazing week for Chunk! Thanks to everyone who has tried it out and spread the word 🥰

After much teasing, Chunk Icons 3 is out in the wild!

http://chunkicons.com

Snowed in, so here are a couple new keyboard builds ❄️⌨️

I’m amazed and humbled to see that the new version of Chunk has already been downloaded over 2,000 times! 🥹 I would love to see what y’all are making with these little buds.

http://chunkicons.com

Recently upgraded my desk drink game to these Launch Pad coasters, designed by keeb master @maxvoltar

What I would actually get if I had Vision Pro money to throw around

I listened to @jabronus and broke containment

Might put Flowershop on this bad boy 🌸🌺🌼

New essay on sound design in software.

https://www.notboring.software/words/the-sound-of-software

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