I’ve been publishing these posts in various formats, on multiple platforms, and with different models (I won’t dare say business) for over eight years. The first post was technically on May 15th, 2016. It was a humble beginning. I promptly forgot to post again until October, 28th, 2016. I was still creating the content for my team, I just wasn’t in the habit of posting them publicly yet. From that point on, I’ve been consistent. Medium was the main platform for a long time. Medium’s ease of use and generous author payment program (that paid for my monthly fees) made it worthwhile. In the meantime, I experimented with a daily email newsletter version with 5 links a day. That was torturous and expensive. I started cross-posting to my own blog with big dreams of moving all of the content from Medium over. That hasn’t happened–yet. It may never happen. Over two years ago, LinkedIn created a newsletter option, so I added that as a more paired-down version. I’m trying to simplify, and I keep saying that the Medium version will die soon. I don’t want to pay for Medium anymore. Yes, there is some good content on the platform. Is it worth $60 a year–I’m not so sure. I’ve been leaning into the idea that creators should own our content. This is a little strange to say, being that this content is itself an aggregation of other folk’s amazing work. If you believe that curation is an act of creation, and I have to in this case, I’m running with it.
Graphic Design/Branding
Brand Guidelines
Handpicked curated brand guidelines from around the world
Web Design/UX/UI
Content Strategy vs. UX Writing
Content strategy focuses on content-related processes, while UX writing shapes user experiences through text. The two disciplines work in harmony.
Industrial Design
The Design Features of a Starbucks Cold Cup
Improving UX for baristas
Vivobarefoot unveils “scan-to-print-to-soil” compostable trainers
The product will be created in a “fully automated process – scanned on phone and automatically printed”
Art
Overlooked 2.0 transforms London’s manhole covers into works of art
Marina Willer extracts beauty from right beneath our feet
theory11 x Shepard Fairey (Obey)
The three decks share common faces with vibrant, iconic OBEY art over three decades.
Typography/History
Free Faces
a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs
ARETE Visual History of the Latin Alphabet
The central result of the project is the interactive visualization of the history of the Latin alphabet. In particular, the visualization shows the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other.
Work
Six human skills that will future-proof your design career
AI is coming for our pixels. How do we leverage our humanity to drive our destiny as designers?
Random
Minecraft x Woobles
A Creeper, an Iron Sword, a Pig, a Saddle, a Warden, and Music Discs in lovely crochet action for beginners