A personal website made by a human
Welcome to this garden I tend, with a photo journal, collected links from around the web and some other tangents. ✌️🏳️🌈🍉
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You can never have too many flowers
Some Good Places to Start
Now
Answering the question, “What are you up to right now?” Updated April 2025
The Kitchen Drawer
A bunch of lists, tidbits and miscellany strewn about this site — a sitemap for things that get lost.
How I Internet
An overview of how I approach journaling and whatnot.
Colorful
I’ve always loved colorful things. I think it might have started with The Muppets. Here’s a bunch of colorful posts.
The Chapters of Your Life
This started as a brief presentation about intent and photography that my good friend Erik turned into a short film as a birthday surprise during the pandemic.
Partial advice from my future self
I found an old selfie from 20 years ago and wrote a list of advice for him.
A few favorite things
Books, movies, video games, music and random other things all mixed together in a visual, sortable grid.
Creative Mornings Talk
This video from 2013 is long, but lays out who I am and why I think design is awesome. I was nervous as heck through the whole thing.
Treat yourself like a client
A sequel to my Creative Mornings talk from Layers Conference in 2016 where I share piecing myself back together.
Great Discontent Interview
An old conversation that fills in the blanks of my career and whatnot in an interview format. My tip of the hat to Ryan and Tina for the moment.
My old website
I refuse to throw anything away (digitally at least). Here’s my old site cobbled together with spacer gifs and tables.
Recent Links
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath
I had to look up arcane (it means mysterious or secret). This typographic retrospective feels like a significant piece in the milieu honoring the life of Ozzy Osbourne who passed this week.
The Claypole Commons
This Newsletter for a street with 25 residents has so many angles of goodness baked in... The goal to inspire connection... The "aha" to kick it off by celebrating nature... The design and production... The resulting deepening of community... Every bit of it, beyond measure. This interview with DJ is an excellent overview, but all the links are worth savoring.
Homegrown National Parks
DJ posted this of a Homegrown National Park movement as part of an interview (Instagram link), "...if every yard were like a mini national park, the planet would be much healthier." This inspires me to think how we can move plantings from pots and into the ground with a more longterm view.
State of the Workflow with John Gruber
I listen to music instead of podcasts because I can't multi-task. But every once in a while I give it a shot. This episode of Cortex with Myke Hurley is a perfect encapsulation of the podcast description: A show that explores how creative people think about their work — and how they get it done. John Gruber shares processes (and automations) that go into writing Daring Fireball and there's some really good moments and insight.
Finding the original Computer Cowboy
I've been eyeing a box with old hard drives, Zip drives and back-up CD-Rs wondering what they might hold. I am certain none of them will contain anything near as good as this nugget.
India Street Lettering, the book
As I hit publish there are 40 some hours left in this Kickstarter for a book with gorgeous photos of lettering in India by Pooja Saxena. Culled from her extensive and ever expanding online archive, the edition will include essays and stories of sign painters and craftspeople.
Custom Vinyl Records
Tom sent this over and I was like, "Whoa!!!!" This is going to make for some really excellent gifts.
I Texted the Number on the Sign
Kate Bingaman-Burt saw these lovely signs around Portland with colorful hand lettering advertising home services and a number to call. After much enjoyment of the work she decided to call the number. This is her exchange with Landon, roofing handyman and bespoke lettering artist.
A Visit With The Stamp King
Dan Sinker drops off a bankers box filled with his dad's stamp collection. My dad collected stamps, coins too. Mom collected books, paper and Fiesta ware. I am worse than both of them with near endless collections (including links)! Dan's piece gives me a little hope it's all not for naught.
