This week I:
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Crawled the unhinged, but enjoyable Things you might find in a dungeon are.na board.
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Watched Why everyone is quitting social media … on a social media platform, with an ad in the middle, but it still rings true.
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Enjoyed the Geronimo Stilton style caption creator and the interactive eye-following card.
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Really dug J. Marshall Smith’s art. Especially these two.
I am currently:
Really into this mural painted by Ariel Lee.
Listening to Rain Country by John Swanke.
Coveting these pocket notebooks from Big I Design.
Liking these “humble phantoms” carved from wood.
Nodding along to this definition of the night feeling h/t Jack Cheng.
Glass Window by Brett Allen Johnson
grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”
“What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one.”
“Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts.”
“There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it.”
“There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose.”
Some things to click for your Friday.
On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid.
Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigantic archive, at all scales, forensically recording every event that occurs within it, with few or no options for opting out.” Also, BLDGBLOG is still alive.
Google Fonts organized by vibe, even if fonts aren’t your thing, visit to see all the little cursors flying around the Figma canvas.
Alistair Smith’s personal site is pretty neat.
Photos of Baltimore at Night.
BS 2000 a Beastie Boy adjacent project.
Good advice from Chris Glass: Send the Card.
From Found Way, an amazing are.na collection of wayfinding, signs, etc.
Look: The art of Kristin Moore
Watch: a summer without algorithms.