Here’s Leah Spencer writing for Alphabettes about her fabulous work as a graphic designer for film and TV. Her job is to create all the typographic objects that you might see in a show like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but Leah says that you have to tackle these projects differently though, you have to take yourself...

I’ve been iterating on my portfolio for the last few days whilst desperately applying for a bunch of gigs and last night I finally got it into a good place. I’m not sure why it took so dang long but some problems are just stubborn and take forever to figure out. Here’s the before and after: It’s certainly not...

Guillaume Berry just launched a new site for the type foundry Marmite Defontes and by golly if it just sure ain’t the prettiest/fastest website I’ve seen today. This project is a great reminder that speed is more important than almost any other quality of a cool website. I am taking furious notes. Another detail I...

Last month I redesigned my website, so it’s about time to do it again. This one includes a bunch of interesting details to talk through but perhaps it’s better to call this a “reshuffle” more than a “redesign.” i. # I’ve replaced everything with Söhne, my typographic kudzu: I spotted these beautiful letters a few...

I’ve been really enjoying brr, a blog from a chap who works in IT at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. They write about basically everything, from hunkering down for winter... South Pole Station sits at near-exactly 90° South latitude. Down here, the sun does weird things. This leads to strange but...

Whoa, @maya. I’ve never heard of a black Book of Hours like this one before. What an absurdly beautiful thing: The lettering is inscribed in silver and gold and placed within borders ornamented with flowers, foliage and grotesques, on pages dyed a deep blueish black.

This piece by Dr Eleanor Janega on successor states and websites is so damn good it hurts. She compares the “fall” of Rome to what’s happening to the social network that’s now nothing more than a bunch of thugs in a trench coat: We are living through a tiny little change in a form of communication, but it can help...

For years I’ve tried to make the ending of whatever piece I’m writing have a little thump right at the end, a bit of drama to make the machine stop. I can’t remember where or who I stole this technique from but at some point I noticed that the best writing always ends in crescendo, rewarding the reader for getting...

I love everything about Guide Guide by Cameron McEfee—it’s a plugin for design tools that allows you to create complex grid systems real easy. On the website, Cameron writes: We’ve gone soft. Our modern design tools, great as they are, hold our hands in the direction of what is easy to build and optimize. They...

I’ve been thinking about what I want from a new gig. Lately too much of my time has been spent working alone, making things in a bubble, pitching ideas in isolation. It’s pretty lonely! How do I fix that? What I want is a co-conspirator and mentor again. Someone who kicks my ass and pushes my designs and prototypes,...

I’m teleported back in time 200 years to the warmth of Morse code and folded letters as I walk in the door—I can almost see the haberdasheries and cobblestone paths that crowd the outside world through the windows as I turn back to close it—because here I am safely in the past; beautiful suits line the walls of this...

A blog is for loving things whole-heartedly and so I must inform you that I love Parallax by Atlas Sound. It’s an album that I come back to once a year and it reminds me of cold, snowy days at uni (was there really snow? That doesn’t sound quite right...). Either way, this album reminds me of learning how to...