Setting Whitehead: Workhorse Editions No. 001
Designing a reading edition of Whitehead’s The Aims of Education, with Caslon typography, margin notes, and a reusable browser-to-PDF print system.
Writing
16 posts
Branding in the Age of Agentic Design
Why branding is the design discipline best positioned for the agentic era, and what that looks like in the workspace we are building at Workhorse.
Sound-Reactive Studies, No. 01: a browser instrument
A web-native specimen sheet that prints itself in CMYK ink whenever a key is held. The first piece in an ongoing series of sound visualization studies that began with my 2011 thesis Hi Fi Lo Fi Wi Fi…
How thehonestape.com is built
Designing and building my portfolio: project navigation, a conversational terminal, shared content, and a workflow for revising the site in code.
Sacred Grove
Designing an iOS app for reading scripture and wisdom literature, comparing translations, and listening to related audio. Work in progress.
Late Night TV
Late Night TV was meant to recreate the feeling of falling asleep watching television with your eyes open. We never built the frame that would make it work. These are the short AnimateDiff loops we ma…
Vibe Coding is Design
An essay on the changing relationship between design and development.
Artificial Intelligence, Automatons, and Brazen Heads
Brazen Head by Abraham Garcia, Self-portrait. Imagine standing in a medieval laboratory, face-to-face, with a gleaming brass head. Its eyes flicker with otherworldly intelligence as it speaks, reveali…
My First Experiment with Stable Diffusion
Changing the ethnicity of a stock photo's subject using text prompts - tinkering as research in 2022
Four Books that Inspired Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'
David Graeber and Herman Hesse influenced the director's new film - exploring civilization, patriarchy, and egalitarian societies
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Branding and the Truth
Examining how brands can embody truth and authenticity in their design and messaging.
The Future is Now
Thoughts on technology, capitalism, and design as the world transforms during the 2020 pandemic.
Working Remotely
Tools and systems for successful remote design collaboration, written during the 2020 pandemic shift. Covers Slack, Zoom, Krisp.ai, Dropbox, Paper, and Figma workflows.
State Your Purpose!
Reflections on graduate school application statements and sharing growth as designers. A collection of MICA GDMFA alumni statements.
