the moth
i sent this to students recently. "Very rarely - in my experience - does your best ideas come from you just sitting down and writing - it is born from constraint(s). Like some of these seemingly weird tasks we have
trojan heretic
jaron lanier’s website is terrible / so exquisitely / terrible / it violates almost every design principle in existence / in brutal fashion / lanier seems screaming savage at war with ui elegance and ux empathy / and yet
YNNU
Heaviest (and by far the coolest) university logo I have ever seen. It's like some sort of post-apocalyptic symbol. And probably not far off. Result of a relocation and merger between three Chinese universities after the anti-Japanese War broke out
vellum
One day I will run some odd stock / material through the printer and it will jam it good. But today is not that day. My preferred method is to set the printer up with whatever weird material you want
machine god
In the parable ‘The Madman’ Frederich Nietzsche suggested that, “god is dead” , “we have killed him” and then asks, “must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of [the murder]”. Phil Aitken says we didn’t have it
on doubt
sometimes i wonder / what i am actually doing here / like how did i get this position / this role / this right / this responsibility / hey check me out / all propped up here / the / supposed sage on stage / If that's what this is / all embodied
it means little
That letter A has been designed then cut by laser into a steel hydrant booster box. And degraded by time. That letter is one of many that form languages. Constructed to record / express our experience. Typography endows that language
assange
This is the image - in full - that I used in the circuit breaker poster and it is also sitting behind the 'darkside' triangle / moon. I shot this on Ann Street in Brisbane. I can see Julian Assange
more time
People suffer deeply when time is divided up / into rigid segments / mathematical management / focussed on efficiency / and productivity / and this relentless chase for constant growth and hey really it is / just a
darkside
It is just a really small section of an image running through the inside a three simple shapes (one you can barely see) and printed onto canvas paper. And there was something about the result and the process I went