Designer Things

Insurance companies all kind of look the same, don’t they? I used to think this was lazy design—like someone at corporate just copy-pasted the same

I used to think typography pairing was just about picking fonts that looked nice together. Turns out, the whole thing is way more complicated—and honestly

I’ve spent way too many hours staring at magazine covers in grocery store checkout lines. Here’s the thing: the visual strategy behind iconic

I used to think irony was the end point—like we’d all just keep winking at each other until culture collapsed into a pile of self-referential memes.

The thing about modernism is that it didn’t just change how things looked—it changed how we thought about looking at things in the first place.

I used to think art was something you stood in front of, hands clasped behind your back, nodding thoughtfully like you understood the symbolism.

I used to think book covers were just about slapping a pretty image on cardboard and calling it a day. Then I spent an afternoon in a bookstore—one of

Hygge isn’t just candles and wool socks, though honestly, that’s how most of us first encounter it. I used to think Scandinavian design was

I used to think design for social innovation was just about making things look better—you know, slapping a fresh coat of paint on broken systems and calling

I used to think textile patterns were just decoration—something pretty to look at, maybe a cultural footnote. Then I spent an afternoon at a small museum