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🔓 True is Better Than New • Doubleshot
I’ve always been a big believer in actively cultivating the individual perspective as a part of good design rationale, and it’s even more on my mind now.

True is Better Than New: David Reinfurt, A *Co–* Program for Graphic Design
How individual perspective is the real driver of design as a practice.


📚 (Don’t?) Read This: Bring Out Your Design Dead
No matter what’s happening, the design community cyclically experiences its own emotional, intellectual, or technological “death.”

📚 Read This: Fictional Computers and Their Themes
A good reminder that less about the current technological moment is as new as we sometimes think.

📚 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.

📚 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.


📺 Watch This: The Techsploder Podcast
I recently got to sit down with my old friend and tech-world colleague Jason Howell on his new show “Techsploder.”
