Tools of the Trade: My hammer and nails

Every designer and developer has a go-to set of tools and software that they use to get the job done. I thought it would be fun to share some of my staples, and maybe hear about some of yours. Maybe you can find something new! 

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Tools

Ipad Pro & Apple Pencil

For sketching on the go, lettering, pattern making, and digital painting

Wacom Cintiq

For photo editing, illustrating and digital painting

Samsung NX3000 Mirrorless camera

Lightweight daily camera

Canon 5D

Copic Markers

Illustration, cardmaking

Prismacolor

Colored pencils, markers and charcoal

Brother HL2700 Laser printer

EpsonWF7610

Alienware x51

my daily workstation with expanded memory and upgraded graphics

Lenovo ideapad u530

My work laptop. I went with this because it has a dedicated graphics card and runs the Adobe suite very well.

Software

Adobe CS

For designing, digital painting, vector illustrations, photo editing, web development, video editing and publishing

Procreate for Ipad

For sketching and digital painting

Fontself

This Illustrator and Photoshop plugin lets you easily drag and drop vectors to create fonts (even color fonts) and even give them open type features, or create webfonts.

Fontbase

A lightweight but powerful font organizer. With over 5000 fonts, this is key.

For my own hosting and web services

Domains

Miscellaneous

For my time tracking, I use Timepanther.com

For invoicing I use Paypal

For project management I use Asana and Trello.

Have any favorites you want to share? What are some of your favorite tools?