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Arun Venkatesan
I'm a product designer, engineer, photographer, and writer. Currently, I'm the founding product designer at Miter. Formerly, I was co-founder and product designer at Carrot Fertility. I'm an alumnus of Columbia University and the South Park Commons. On weekends, I write this blog and newsletter, travel with my wife and kids, run and bike and take photographs.
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A little introduction to Osaka and the surprisingly charming neighborhood that was our homebase while there.
A week down the California coast in an electric van that made us stop every couple hundred miles — and the places we found because of it.
The 747 shaped how I understood distance, family, and wonder. As it disappears from the skies, I'm trying to figure out what to hand my son instead.
A photographic journey through the design principles of a whimsical wonderland.
I admired Om Malik and his writing for my entire adult life, then had the fortune of knowing him. A remembrance of a friend, mentor, critic, and guide.
I look at the Japanese symbols that carry meaning entirely on their own.
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
Today I'm introducing a new project called Daily Designer with daily quotes from designers I admire.
Everyone may be dunking on the Ferrari Luce, but I'm not sure it would have ended any other way.
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