Designer Things

I used to think feminist posters were just angry slogans on cardboard. Turns out, the visual language of feminist movements—from suffragette banners to

I used to think protest signs were just cardboard and anger. Then I spent three months in 2019 photographing demonstrations across seven cities, and I

I used to think plant-based brands all looked the same—green leaves, sans-serif fonts, that predictable earthy palette. Turns out, the visual identity

Dark Academia isn’t just about looking moody in a library—it’s about feeling something complicated about knowledge itself. I used to think

I used to think magic realism was just a literary trick—something Gabriel García Márquez invented to make Latin American novels feel exotic to Western readers.

The f/64 Group didn’t invent sharp focus, but they sure made it mean something. I used to think photography was supposed to be painterly—soft edges

I used to think psychedelic art was just a relic of the 1960s—something that belonged exclusively to Grateful Dead posters and Haight-Ashbury storefronts.

I used to think photography was about capturing what’s really there. Then I spent three weeks in a Berlin gallery staring at Nan Goldin’

I used to think tattoos were just about aesthetics, until I watched a Maori elder trace the grooves on his chin and explain that each line was a chapter

I used to think paper cutting was just something grandmothers did with safety scissors and construction paper. Then I saw my first Ojibwe birch bark biting—a