Words & Letters
Running a little late, but what’s time anyway. Enjoy the links. Packaging/Industrial Design Propeller’s All-Paper Package Design for Sunology’s Sleek Battery System Despite the battery weighing as much 30.5 kg, the packaging is built from paper – strong honeycomb board, paperboard corner reinforcements and paper straps – balancing the needs of transport with a considered […]
As we enter the 2nd half of the year, I’m starting to feel the pressure to get some things done. As usual, I’ve got 53 projects in motion. A few have seen the light of day; most have not. There are so many that have been abandoned, lost, grown bored of, got close and gave […]
Last week slipped away — but not without reason. I’ve been rebuilding the engine under the hood of this newsletter, and the new process is already paying off. I keep my links in Airtable (this isn’t new), but in a new table. I’ve added a slew of new fields to track and prepare these for […]
Progress is all we can ask for. I’ve been making very small steps in my automation mission. This past week, I created automated workflows using Airtable to push my saved links into other Airtables (is the plural of an airtable, airtables?). This seems like a small thing–and yes, it’s small. But, in the process, I’m […]
Still no new workflow. Still getting the links posted. It’s June. I need to have this workflow thing sorted by the end of the month. The only way to get there is by creating a deadline. Hold me accountable, gang. Typography The old typography is new again Born of analog typesetting constraints, optical sizing is […]
Five months are almost complete, which means one more to the halfway mark of 2026. This also means that I still haven’t completed my new workflow. Progress is being made, but it’s slow. The tech overlords make a lot of promises, but the AI tools are still quite slow. Oh well, we’ve still got a […]
It’s been a whirlwind. My process is still not tidy–but I’m seeing glimpses of what could be. There’s no easy. Links are still fun, though. Work Mockups Were Never the Hard Part With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always […]
Maybe by now you’ve noticed I’m a bit obsessive about collecting these links. Week after week, thousands of them, no end in sight. It started with a purpose: creative fuel for a team I was managing. That morphed into what you see here. It’s not a straight line, and honestly, it’s hard to keep going […]
My index finger on my dominant hand is out of commission. The machine doesn’t stop for a finger. Photography In Focus: Women Shaping Visual Storytelling Photographers framing life, culture, and the in-between Architecture Ten items from the Zaha Hadid archives that capture her talent and idiosyncrasies Today marks 10 years since the death of one […]
It’s been a busy few weeks. I’m getting through it. That’s what we do, right? Plug away, iterate, fail, try again, get closer, go way off course, realign, discover something, break it, start over, get to a solution that you can live with, start again, find a nugget that you love, iterate some more, and […]