Designer Things

Visual segregation isn’t something most people think about consciously, but here’s the thing—it’s operating in your brain right now as you read this.

I used to think pharmaceutical logos were just blue crosses and latin words nobody could pronounce. Turns out, there’s this whole architectural language

I used to think Neo Romanticism was just another art history footnote, something dusty professors argued about in academic journals. But then I started

The thing about softcore grunge is that nobody can quite agree on what it actually is. I spent three months last year scrolling through Pinterest boards

I used to think art movements were born in galleries, but the Stuckists literally started theirs in a pub. In 1999, Charles Thomson and Billy Childish

I used to think black-and-white photography was just what you did when you couldn’t afford color film. Turns out, monochrome’

I used to think clowncore was just about oversized polka dots and red noses. Turns out, the aesthetics of clowncore—this weird, maximalist visual language that’

The first business licenses weren’t licenses at all—they were guild marks carved into wood. I’ve spent way too many hours in municipal archives

I used to think visual consistency was just about picking a color palette and calling it a day. Turns out, the way we treat elements across a design system—buttons

I spent three hours in a museum basement once, staring at photographs of Tiwanaku stonework, and I kept thinking about a sculptor I’