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Type designers could afford reclusion because distributors managed the reader relationship. AI hasn't disrupted that system; it's made it more efficient, at the designer's expense.
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Thoughts in Text about Fonts or Other Things i Find
5 Predictions for Design at the Edge of the AI Apocalypse
The AI story in design is not primarily a creativity story. It is a labour story about who loses work first, who controls distribution, and which institutions can no longer justify what they were charging for.
Cooked.
AI is here now, and like every tool that expands access, it has triggered a familiar kind of panic. Designers are asking whether their jobs are at risk. Whether the work will disappear. Whether something essential is being lost. These
Design Fundamentals: Identity
Of the pillars that shape contemporary design, identity may be the most difficult to interrogate. Craft can be critiqued. Commerce can be debated. Passion can be absorbed into labour politics. But identity feels different — harder to handle. It is lived
Why You Should Release That Shitty Font
Why “ready” is a market condition, not a moral one
Another Low for Liberal Design
There has been a lot of noise in the design world this week about a declaration from the United States Secretary of State to switch government correspondence from Calibri back to Times New Roman. Designers are upset. Twitter is doing
What Happens Next
Every time I try to imagine my next career move, I end up thinking about design. Not the Instagram version of it with the mockups and the variable font animation loops, but the real thing. The work, the people, the
This is a Fonts Account Now
A reflection on building, burning out, and getting back to what I love: naps.
Working Big, Staying Small
Cliff notes from swimming with the sharks
Four Things I wish someone told me
Notes from, and for, a Caribbean tech founder