Designer Things

I used to think design was supposed to make things easier. That was before I stumbled into a gallery in Rotterdam—2019, I think, maybe early 2020—where

Typography doesn’t just sit on the page—it yells at you, whispers, or sometimes just kind of… exists there, depending on what decade you’

I used to think the red cross meant the same thing everywhere. Turns out, the visual language of healthcare is way more complicated than a single universally

I used to think cottagecore was just about Instagram filters and flower crowns. Turns out, the aesthetic runs deeper than that—like, significantly deeper.

I used to think expressionism was just about tortured artists painting screaming faces. Turns out, the movement that exploded across Germany in the early

I used to stare at the letter ‘g’ in my high school biology textbook and wonder why it looked like it was trying to escape the page.

I used to think magazine layouts just sort of happened—like someone woke up one day and decided Times New Roman was boring. Turns out, the entire history

The safety pin through the cheek wasn’t just rebellion—it was typography. I used to think punk’s visual language was chaos for chaos’

I used to think ancient metalwork was basically just hammering stuff until it looked pretty. Then I spent an afternoon in a museum basement in Lima, staring

I used to think meal kit boxes were just about food. Then I started noticing the typography—the way HelloFresh uses that rounded sans-serif that feels