For Katty · The Public Library of Chez Luc

Hi, I’m Luke.

I help people achieve their goals through Design, Code, Motion Design, Retouching and Productivity training.

I’m who you call when time is of the essence and you don’t know where to start. With amazing research skills and the ability to learn quickly I find and execute a solution before the deadline.

Throughout my career I’ve held many titles: Art Director, Production Designer, Web Designer and my latest, Productivity Designer.

It’s hard to explain exactly what I do, so I created this site showcasing a range of projects, old and new, dating back to 2004.

I adapted the Dewey Decimal System to categorize my personal and professional work. In the menu on the left you can browse the card catalog or navigate through the other taxonomies.

The information section includes some bits about me, favorite movies, books, quotes and other “keeps.”

Melvil Dewey’s Original paper about the Dewey Decimal System.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, feedback or need help with a goal you have in mind!

Call Number
000. LC-1

Title
About me

Author
Luke Carter

About
Description of how I made The Public Library of Chez Luc, this site.

See also
000. LC-2 Life and Career Overview

air/shots article on airbnb.design

Call Number
000. LC-2

Title
Life and Career Overview

Author
Luke Carter

About
A general overview of background, career and recent work at Airbnb.

*The video does not include examples of newest productivity & scripting work.

See also
000. LC-1 About me

Walkthrough video.

Call Number
323.0. LC-1

Title
Airmojix Font Prep and Export

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Professional

While at
Airbnb

Type
Automation

Tags
Fonts, AppleScript

About
The font that Airbnb uses for web and native apps gets updated with indicator icons that are mastered by the Production Design team. Once the icon is ready it is the team's responsibility to add the new icon(s) to the font. This is a very manual process, and requires attention to detail.

I created an AppleScript that automated the import and export of a desired number of icons into each weight of the font. The last step in the process is to archive the current font files and place new zips in their respective delivery folders.

P.S. This was one of the first automation projects I did with AppleScript. The method used to click and type are crude, but it worked! I have since learned faster methods including pasting text from the clipboard and executing shell commands behind the scenes to click on XY coordinates.

Call Number
323.0. LC-4

Title
Batch Downloading

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Professional

While at
Airbnb

Type
Automation

Tags
AppleScript, Airbnb Plus

About
For Airbnb's new Plus product, all listing photos were color corrected according to the Plus photo style guidelines. Airbnb created a media tool to manage all of the photography. To update a photo, it was downloaded, retouched and then replaced.

There was no way to download all of the images from a listing - the download button had to be clicked manually for each photo. Some listings contained up to 80 photos.

The AppleScript I developed takes a set of listing IDs from a spreadsheet and downloads all of the images into folders on the desktop. This can be done while the retoucher is at lunch or in a meeting. When they returned the desired number of listings would be batch downloaded to their desktop.

Call Number
323.22. LC-1

Title
Moving Inline Styles

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Personal

Type
Automation

Tags
AppleScript, Css

About
When I'm styling a web page, I find it a bit annoying to go back and forth between the html page and the css file. I like to write css code using inline styles so I can see the changes refresh when I save.

When I'm done, I use this AppleScript to move the inline styles to the main.css document where they should be.

Call Number
323.22. LC-2

Title
Updating a site

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Personal

Client
Carol Melo

Type
Automation

Tags
AppleScript,

About
I created a workflow that would automatically reinsert image names into an HTML file for someone who did not know how to code html.

Call Number
323.22. LC-3

Title
Creating a New AppleScript

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Personal

Type
Automation

Tags
AppleScript

About
A simple AppleScript to make a new AppleScript

Making Of Documentary

Call Number
620.6. LC-1

Title
Luke Carter for COS

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Professional

Client
COS

Type
Motion, Photography, Art Direction, Retouching, Design

Tags
Videos, Documentaries, Animation

About
I've always wanted to work for COS, so I made an HTML email from scratch and documented the process. This was a very fun project. It's a long shot, but it was worth doing for the fun of it. I made a package to send to the London office and wrote a note inside of Melvil Dewey's original paper on the Dewey Decimal System. I sewed a special pouch and sent it off their head office.

See also
121.1. LC-20 luke-for-cos.com