a working manifesto on creating, an archive and directory of the work we create and how they are connected

a print shop, designing and printing zines and fliers and posters, exploring the theory of print and printing towards a future of abundance

A field guide on fish, in which we are guided by the fish

Cyanotype of a technological object

A friend once told me that when there are two dots and a line, people usually associate the diagram as an illustration of a friendship. Later, when I asked him for more information or a source, he said he made it up, but the idea stuck.

It is interesting how two dots and a line can look like a friendship. I really love simple, minimal design, they have an elegance where the building blocks are visible. You see the dots and lines and you can see exactly how it was composed.

Here I've created 10 scenarios between two dots and some lines.

My first full-time job after college was working with spreadsheets. I was a sourcing analyst, where my job was to maintain spreadsheets with a parts list, like for the electronic parts of a washing machine or something. My daily task would be to send the parts list to a list of different distributors, and they would send back the spreadsheets with their prices filled out for each part: 3 cents for a resistor, 10 cents for a capacitor, etc. Then, I would compile all the prices onto one large spreadsheet and then submit that to my project manager for them to make purchases. It was honestly a terrible job, but there was something there.

When I was deep in a spreadsheet, something seemed to have clicked. It was like seeing the bricks to a building. The simple elegance of a spreadsheet, data arranged into a table, made working on it feel like tinkering with the base elements of some technological compound. Of course, our usual interactions with spreadsheets are usually no fun. They either function as a successor to the accounting books they were built off of, or they pop up as finance tools or school assignments.

But what happens if we imagine the the tabular form as a creative canvas? What happens when we give life to each cell?

Our tangled mess makes for a good nest

A collection of designed templates for work and goals.

I found this editorial ad for the Olympus OM-1, a camera I'm quite fond of...more on that in the future, and tried remixing it in a few colors. Then I applied a few different overlays, crops, and distortions to both see how it looks, and as a way to learn more about Illustrator. It's interesting how a formal, utilitarian ad design becomes something a bit more intriguing with time, and some simple transformations. Free from their original purpose, a new life begins.

The Pop-Up Print Kit is a D.I.Y. Mobile Exhibition consisting of a printable set of designed pages with art and media from the community—inspired by zines, origami, and printmaking—that can be exhibited in any space, such as a favorite coffeeshop, a community space, a friend's apartment, etc.