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While I’ve visited Chicago many times in the past 15 years, they were usually for Market Days – the LGBTQ+ street festival held every August. During those trips we rarely ventured outside of Boystown, the bars or the nightly late-night grilled cheese from Cheesie’s. So for my first trip back in 7 years, it was time...
I’ve been toying around with pinhole photography of late, and picked up a Mia Mezzaluna 6x9 camera. The banner image is a 10 minute long exposure I took of myself. It was quite fun trying not to move for that long and I entered a weird sort of zen state. I was going to do that thing where you sit in different places...
From Michael Bracewell’s novella The Smiths, in which the narrator describes first hearing ‘Hand in Glove’:And was there some stratum of attitude, somewhere in the lower register, that brought to mind the interior monologue of a drily cynical supply teacher?
For the record, the only agents I have representing my work are Booklyn; who focus on placing reasonably-sized art-on-paper at institutional collections, especially within the U.S. They've been instrumental in getting my work into a number of university collections (listed here). No art-dealer for larger works, no...
Me too, mancub, me too. Herself incubated what may possibly be plague at Bloodstock and is therefore in the Plague Cell (our daughter’s old room) once again. The internet is acting like an elephant is sitting on it. The humidity continues to be fucking terrible. But I am not ready for summer to end. I still need to...
Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason why they can’t do it; it really is what they’ve decided to produce. It does raise the question: Why isn’t more of our technology easy to...
From Presentation of the Gutenberg Prize 2026 by gutenberg-gesellschaft.de:Behind this playful gesture, however, lay a serious mission. Through “Hacking Gutenberg,” Spiekermann is seeking support for p98a.berlin, a unique workshop and living museum that combines traditional printing techniques with contemporary...
On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked. The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key nudges the generated output in a way that isn’t obvious to a person, but that can...
Carlo Bramanti is a designer and writer based in The Netherlands.We literally told you not to research:The Conspiracy to Rule the World, unknown author and dateThe following text is an excerpt from my book “Conspiratorial Design - Information Design for the Bigger Picture”, slightly adapted to work as a standalone...
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