☕️ Letting Go of Geometry (Again)
How type design made me see all the “fixed” logos on social media in a new, dimmer light.
Theory
Design at its intersections with sociology, philosophy, and cognition.
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📚 Read This: “How humans became microplastic” on UnHerd
Plastic promised a world in which our inventive capabilities would be unbound and infinite. It’s easy to hear an echo (or a warning voice) of those proclamations today.
Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
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📚 Read This: “Neural networks & the architectural imagination” on Recessed Spaces
A piece of architectural criticism focused on the role of generative AI in the imagination of architecture and the ways that the technology elides questions about whose work went into the image.
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✨ AI-generated Screens and Matters of Taste ✨
Figma has added the sparkle emoji to our design tools. What does it really mean?
☕️ Doubleshot • The Sparkle Emojis are Here
The phrase “make designs,” I would argue, does not describe what occurs when the button is pressed.
☕️ Doubleshot • Tension
The most interesting explorations are those that show something unexpected: a constellation of system features that creates a slight unbalance or a new focal point in the composition.
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Generative AI and the Urge to Transcend “Human Error”
In some AI discourse, “error” can be anything that’s open to multiple interpretations. In other words, error can be seen as subjectivity itself.
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The Chair as Interface
Continuing the exploration of how tangible objects present us with an interface of everyday life.
☕️ Doubleshot • Draw to Feel
Drawing to feel, and the chair as interface.
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Skeuomorphism and the Morphology of UI
What to make of aesthetics in the interface, “neu” and old.
