Designer Things

The snapshot aesthetic—that perfectly imperfect, caught-off-guard look—has become the default visual language of casual photography, and honestly, I’

I’ve spent way too many hours staring at Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and honestly, it wasn’

I used to think freedom papers were just bureaucratic receipts, like old tax forms or property deeds—boring, uniform, forgettable. Turns out the documents

I used to think property deeds were just boring rectangles of paper with fancy script. Turns out, the visual language of land ownership has been evolving

I used to think royalcore was just another Instagram filter—velvet ribbons, gold leaf, those impossibly ornate rooms nobody actually lives in.

I used to think cyberpunk was just neon lights and rain. Turns out, the aesthetics of cyberpunk in visual media run deeper than that surface-level Instagram

I used to think normcore was just an excuse for lazy dressing. Then I spent three months trailing fashion students in Antwerp, watching them meticulously

Typography weight isn’t just about making things bold. I used to think that designers just randomly picked different font weights because they liked

I used to think anticipatory design was just another Silicon Valley buzzword—something product managers threw around in meetings to sound clever.

I used to think retro-futurism was just chrome and fins. Then I spent three months cataloging mid-century design archives in a basement in Pasadena, and here’