A PERSONAL WEBSITE
Welcome to this garden I tend, with a photo journal, collected links from around the web and some other tidbits. ❄️
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Season’s Greetings
Some Places to Start
Now
Answering the question, “What are you up to right now?” Updated April 2025
The Kitchen Drawer
A bunch of lists, tidbits and miscellany strewn about this site — a sitemap for things that get lost.
How I Internet
An overview of how I approach journaling and whatnot.
Colorful
I’ve always loved colorful things. I think it might have started with The Muppets. Here’s a bunch of colorful posts.
The Chapters of Your Life
This started as a brief presentation about intent and photography that my good friend Erik turned into a short film as a birthday surprise during the pandemic.
Partial advice from my future self
I found an old selfie from 20 years ago and wrote a list of advice for him.
A few favorite things
Books, movies, video games, music and random other things all mixed together in a visual, sortable grid.
Creative Mornings Talk
This video from 2013 is long, but lays out who I am and why I think design is awesome. I was nervous as heck through the whole thing.
Treat yourself like a client
A sequel to my Creative Mornings talk from Layers Conference in 2016 where I share piecing myself back together.
Great Discontent Interview
An old conversation that fills in the blanks of my career and whatnot in an interview format. My tip of the hat to Ryan and Tina for the moment.
My old website
I refuse to throw anything away (digitally at least). Here’s my old site cobbled together with spacer gifs and tables.
Recent Links
visualrambling.space
Damar explores various topics through animated and interactive visual essays. Dithering Part I is a great (and mesmerizing) place to start. / via SwissMiss
The 50 best video games of 2025 according to Polygon
Polygon shares a list that shifts between big studios, independent games and a slew of different genres. As much as I love Nintendo, I'd have left off Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, but I digress — there's more enough titles to explore. Looking forward to 2026 and hopefully playing some of these on the upcoming Steam console.
Discover.typography
I remember these font showcases from back in the day. They were fantastic ways to see type families in beautiful context. Brian Hennings brought them to life and now he's archived examples on his website. So good. / via Doug Wilson
Christmas Cards
Created to support the UK organization Crisis and their annual holiday program, Red Dot Studio brought together 54 creative folks to design a deck of playing cards with a Christmas theme. It's all so lovely. / via BrandNew
Tyco catalogs were awesome
Vedad Siljak shares some choice spreads from Tyco toy catalogs on the Casual Archivist (substack). Seeing the breadth of illustration, type and photography across these handful of pages lights up the kid and designer in me. / via SimpleBits
Chuck Jordan’s blogroll
It'd be awesome if more websites had blogrolls (and not just personal sites). I dig Chuck's because he adds a bit of context and categorization to help light the way. Apart from blushing by being mentioned, there are so many new sites to explore here!
Deviled Egg Christmas Trees
Tangent: I was strangely obsessed with my mom's Wilton Piping Tips Set growing up. It's probably because it was a colorful creative tool and also involved sweets. ANYWAY, I've never felt like I needed said tools until now.
People Look at Art or Art Looks at People
My favorite photos from museums contain folks for scale and context. Anton Repponen shares a collection of such images and they're delightful. (His name sounded familiar and now I recall enjoying his street signs project to boot.)
Lorem 2
Usually I try and write actual words for design mockups (and sometimes they end up in a final product). If I need more texture, it's easy to find basic placeholder text. But this tool by Andrew Boardman has some nice features, providing short and long lists along with a formats that make it easy to extract and fold into designs.
