10.20.2014 — At the beginning of this month I landed back in the U.S. after two years of living abroad, in Oaxaca, Mexico and Berlin, Germany. Bringing the adventure to a close was bittersweet. It was hard to be sure when the right moment was for it to end, but I'm so grateful I had these experiences, and I'm also glad to be back.

Hearing View Rheinau

7.4.2014 — Hearing View Rheinau documents the creation of a sound installation in Switzerland where textures from four seasons on the Rhine were meticulously captured.

4.1.2014 — Morris is putting a microscope on the kind of false logic that should raise our bullshit alarms the next time we hear it.

3.31.2014 — I've been thinking a lot about technology and its implications lately, and this morning I sketched out a simple framework for an "anthropocentric technology."

On Comic Sans and Wireframes

2.6.2014 — It took me a long time to realize that wireframing tools use that most hated of fonts: Comic Sans. I got over my initial panic, and here's why: because every font has its place.

2.6.2014 — As you might expect in a book about German resistance to the Nazis during WWII, there are terrible things depicted: torture, suicide and murder. And yet, nobody in the novel is entirely a monster, and nobody is entirely good.

9.10.2013 — The digital world needs more people in love with the creative process for its own sake: the hackers, hobbyists and tinkerers.

4.10.2013 — Design's secret sibling, its shadow self, is counterfeiting.

3.11.2013 — The disruption of the Internet is not being evenly distributed or experienced across the board. Something has to give.

San Francisco Public Press Rebranding Project

2.6.2013 — Last year I worked with the public-interest news startup the San Francisco Public Press to re-brand the project and create a new visual identity for the paper.

2.4.2013 — While I'm always craving immersion in the third kind of reading, if I don't get enough of type two, I find myself distracted by my own lack of knowledge about so many things which I know so little about.

12.17.2012 — If all you've known is the enormity of a country day, have never known the tightness of constricted, scarce space, have never spent years without walking a dirt road or seeing a naked hillside at dawn, you can't appreciate what you have.