American Mavericks Website Up

10.9.2011 — A new website I designed for the San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks festival just went live.

9.23.2011 — The new literary magazine, Fiddleblack (dedicated to "antipastoralism, ecocentrism and existentialism") published a short story I wrote.

580 Split Just Released

6.11.2011 — My first foray into book design just was released—the 2011 edition of Mills College literary journal, 580 Split.

4.15.2011 — A sketch of Joan Didion.

1.21.2011 — After months of work writing a Wordpress theme from scratch, then scrapping it and rewriting it, the Creosote Journal website is up and running.

Man Reading

12.26.2010 — Man reading. Ink and watercolor from Christmas Day, 2010.

10.22.2010 — In the design of BART stations, particularly MacArthur and others that place riders on platforms abutting eight lanes of howling freeway traffic, the Brutalism in effect isn't only the kind with a capital b.

9.22.2010 — Final notes from my recent trip to Central Europe.

8.29.2010 — More notes from my recent trip to Central Europe. Prague is amazing, but the touristed zones are hard to enjoy due to being heavily overrun. I feel like the real Prague is sort of hidden, would take some further digging to get to.

8.21.2010 — Notes from my recent trip to Central Europe. Berlin is amazing: in a state of beautiful decay and vigorous reinvention.

Prague: Pictures

8.10.2010 — Took some pictures while in Prague. Left my battery charger at home so no pictures of Berlin. I’m editing my travel diaries and will post excerpts from them soon. Two weeks in Europe gave me a lot to think about.

6.3.2010 — So I have been thinking: what is a kind of ornamentation that is compatible with clean, modern design? Ornamentation is not purely decorative: it has some very important functions. It guides the eye, it highlights certain elements while downplaying others. It communicates certain aesthetic ideas, feelings, and sensibilities.