Songs about rain.(Originally a footnote for another essay that turned into its own essay)Jan 17Jan 17
I Blame the Sun: The Making of a Book About Japanese Design HistoryMy book Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975¹ was recently published by Set Margins’ in the Netherlands. It is a book that has been…Jan 14Jan 14
Coloring Inside the Lines. Coloring Outside the Lines.Basics for the impending graphic design graduateJul 8, 2020Jul 8, 2020
The Small OlympicsJapan has a pervasive and problematic history based on design by consensus and speculative labor for the design of past Olympic Games as…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
Radical EmpathyA transcription of a welcome speech to the VCFA MFA in Graphic Design Fall 2019 Residency.Oct 15, 2019Oct 15, 2019
Visual Strategies for the ApocalypseI just put out another new book with contributions from designers, type designers, artists, design educators, and design writers Matthew…Mar 27, 2019Mar 27, 2019
The ThingI wrote a new booklet called The Thing, which came out this week. It is 88 pages long and the cover glows in the dark.Mar 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019
The Syntax of Seeming DestructionGraffiti is complicated. Real graffiti even more so.May 22, 2018May 22, 2018
A Death in the Family (or The End of Print)This is what happened:Jan 5, 2018A response icon3Jan 5, 2018A response icon3
MentorsWhile working on this, my colleague Dave Peacock and I put together our speeches welcoming our faculty, staff, and students to VCFA’s…Dec 24, 2017Dec 24, 2017
