Artist + writer. Co-founder @DesignObserver.
Providence, RI
Joined July 2007
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As we celebrate our twentieth anniversary in 2023, we're looking back to look ahead: giving twenty awards in as many categories, a new fellowship, and more. #DOTwenty twenty.designobserver.com
For twenty years, Design Observer has brought you news, criticism, and visual culture from around the globe. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce a fellowship and awards program, The Design Observer Twenty. #DOTwenty #LearnMore twenty.designobserver.com/
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The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
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Not all Xs are born equal.
Pouchée ornamented types
Bonnewell antique wood letter
Futura Black
Caslon Italian
#TwitterX
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We partnered with our friends @Mastercard to co-host a series of intimate conversations about the current state of everything: collaboration, craft, cultural transformation, + technological innovation, all impacting the ways we live and work.
#Listen 🎧
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On the margins, where art lives, humans will continue to carve and paint and hear voices and daydream, pulling out of unique lives unique work. nytimes.com/2023/03/26/opini…
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For twenty years, Design Observer has brought you news, criticism, and visual culture from around the globe. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce a fellowship and awards program, The Design Observer Twenty. #DOTwenty #LearnMore twenty.designobserver.com/
The first step would be to put more of an emphasis on hands-on classes such as art, music, sewing, woodworking, cooking, theater, auto mechanics and welding. nytimes.com/2023/01/09/opini…
More than an optical exercise, reading is a process that involves mind and eyes together, a process of abstraction ... discovering around us regularities, differences, recurrences, singularities, substitutions, redundancies. theparisreview.org/blog/2023…
Amid countless stories of AI "scraping" the internet to undermine original work, there is this. One work inspires another. That is how the public domain feeds creativity. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/public…
“At one point, someone appeared to have made a typeface, or a font, out of my handwriting. … Something about this new typeface made me feel as if the person who had created it was trying to program a piece of my soul.” nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opini…
A pathology all its own
Thanks to @jessicahelfand for reminding me of this scene in The Reckless Moment when art school is blamed for daughter going off the rails! #artschool #maxophuls
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