Ramblings & such
2024
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✿ Good design is for everyone: What Russel Wright and his tree lovers' dream (Manitoga) in Upstate NY taught me— Nov 2024 • from Seattle, WA
✿ An autumn afternoon in Brooklyn Heights: A photo capsule — Oct 2024 • from New York, NY
On AI washing: aka taking a shot every time a billboard on the drive from South SF mentions "AI" or "Big data" — Oct 2024 • from SF & San Diego, CA
✿ No time to write? Presenting the r.e.p.o.r.t. (Reading, Eating, Playing,
Obsessed with, Recommended Treat) — Aug 2024 • from Denver, Oregon, and SF
A summer afternoon in Chicago: A photo capsule — July 2024 • from Chicago, IL
✿ Tadao Ando & applying product design principles to the home — Mar 2024 • from San Francisco, CA
New year, new typeface trends: A review of retro-futurism, embracing fluid forms, and serifs' inevitable comeback? — Jan 2024 • from Seattle, WA
2023
The weight of creativity — Dec 2023 • from Austin, TX
The design thinking behind the tired chat-based Gen AI paradigm — Nov 2023 • from Phoenix, AZ
✿ Feedback is a two-way street: Getting valuable feedback on your work — July 2023 • from Seattle, WA
✿ Cooking and baking are... design? — June 2023 • from Sydney, AU and Auckland, NZ
✿ More Trees forever: An ode to Ryuichi Sakamoto — May 2023 • from Bali and Singapore
Good design is accessible: Accessibility in urban design today — Jan 2023 • from Seattle, WA
2022
The death of nuance in tech — Dec 2022 • from Houston, TX
✿ The Olympic Coast & Forks, under near constant cover of clouds and rain: A very ~ Twilight ~ photo capsule — Oct 2022 • from Seattle, WA
Ah yes now emerges the era of AI washing, I'm calling it now... — July 2022 • from San Francisco, CA
On creativity: Reflections in place of resolutions this New Years — Jan 2022 • from Seattle, WA
2021
An autumn afternoon in Seattle: A photo capsule — Nov 2021 • from Seattle, WA
✿ Human perception in adversarial ML — Sep 2021 • from Seattle, WA
Marfa, Middle of Nowhere, TX: A photo capsule — Aug 2021 • from Seattle, WA
On the bookshelf — Jan 2021 • from Chicago, IL
Pre-2020
Distributed design collaboration in a pandemic world — Dec 2020 • from San Francisco, CA
Live fast, die young yeah yeah... but what about Live slow, die whenever? — Sept 2019 • from Seattle, WA
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