Shop Lights and Synthetic Creativity
A few gems from my recent digging in the archives
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Beginnings, Introductions, “It is a start”
Sharing a bit of my design-oriented creative non-fiction...
Drafts by A Thousand Cuts
Writing and analysis with scissors and glue, maybe teaching too?
Spare Tires, Paused Thoughts
The whole experience got me thinking about backups
Fellowing
Parallel work becomes unexpected community
Things That Keep Stories
Exploring the value of recording and remembering
Pizza, Arranging Nothing, and a Nighttime Dance
Three colliding vignettes of recent experience
Futures Sorts of Things
A podcast episode and a book cover walk into a bar...
Constructing the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 3)
Tools are not neutral. And, cake tastes better with frosting.
Determining the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 2)
People, hierarchies, contributions, and a designer-authored magazine
Figuring the Emigre Magazine Index (Part 1)
Setting out to design the thing I could not find.
Dismantling Productivity with Labels Made of Stars
What if we concerned ourselves with creativity, or even generativity, instead of productivity?
academic
Designers Who Write: When Layout Starts to Become Literature
Lately, things seem to be revolving around book projects...
experiences
Reason Took a Holiday (and then came back)
As I reached the halfway point of a library book, a note slipped out from between the pages.
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Untangling the Personal Project
Visualizing daily movements and making stuff just because we want to
academic
Driveway Woes, Too Much Literature, and Moving Along
In my mind, yes, defensive writing (and research) intersects with car alarm malfunctions
academic
A Designer Tries to Generate Fiction
Bits from my recent talk on using AI to fictionalize the voices of historical graphic design debates.
Newsletter
Scissors, Glue, and Research too
My recent conference presentation on my practice-led research, complete with technology failures and the long, winding road of inquiry.
Newsletter
Seeing the Forest and a few New Trees
Curiosity in action and ideas that might have nothing to do with anything
Newsletter
Juggling Act: Finding Time for Writing
Identifying moments for daily writing and creating stuff can be a real thing. Really.
design
Sound, Always On and Present
Observing non-visual playlists, remix, and rain
design
Scattered Scraps and Paper Paths
Collage and writing meet unapologetic alliterations
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She’s Deadline Un/Oriented
Project updates, first day of class bumbles, and a Stephen King quote.
peer review
Unexpected Intrigue and Peer Review
When an imperfect process leads to genuine enthusiasm