Top 10 of 2018
My favorite media of 2018.
Culture Is Not Always Popular: 15 years of (reading) Design Observer
On reading Design Observer for fifteen years and working on a new book
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100 episodes of Scratching the Surface, Sway, and a conversation with my good friend Rory King
Every questions I've asked on Scratching the Surface Rory and I have been asking each other for ten years.
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Celebrity designers, context collapse, and rethinking how we teach design history
Design as an Attitude
The design critic Alice Rawthorne's new book attempts to create a roadmap for the future of design.
Social Media Sabbatical
Taking a break from social media to reclaim my attention.
Introducing twenty-six design!
I'm launching a design studio!
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The New To-Do List: why I’m back to pen and paper
Finding comfort in writing my to-dos out by hand.
The visual worldbuilding of Annihilation
Alex Garland's new film, based on Jeff Vandermeer's novel, is a masterclass in visual worldbuilding.
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Long Live the Web!
Why I still just love HTML and CSS
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