Project launch for Bold Alliance:
Trump turned his back on the health of our communities and our climate, stomped on our rights, and lied about jobs and economic impact to push through pipelines on behalf of his oil and gas executive friends. We stand with President Biden as he turns the page on Trump fossil fuel pipelines and invests in a better future that includes us all.
Otherwise you risk coming across a damn fool. And just because some words might be swirling around you often doesn’t give you a pass. Still gotta know the definition.
New essay published on Medium from my book In the Middle of Everything:
I love finding myself in the middle of a design project. The point after I’ve pushed through initial procrastination and past early phases of missteps and failures onward into the glorious middle. Before you can see the finish line. Before you’re coasting. Before it’s all about bringing it home. And if you’ve done your work in that glorious middle, what you’re bringing home is worth telling your friends (and enemies) about.
If I could pick a spot in the creative process to live in forever, it would be the middle.
I’ll be participating in an online webinar about the business of design with Spark, a group of independent graphic design business owners. They meet to enlighten each other on the business and creative issues that are relevant to design studios.
We will talk about the business practices behind his success, including how he works with other independent creative professionals and structures those relationships. We will also cover topics and challenges related to being a creative solopreneur. If you own a creative business and work on your own or with a small team, register for this event.
Virtual Meeting, New York, NY
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 @ 5pm Eastern
This is a book about doing good through design, the importance of principles, making projects happen, work/life balance, doing it yourself, and keeping it weird. This is a book about how you can make a design career look like whatever you want it to look like. And how you can use design to engage with life on every level — in your community, with the arts, technology, business, civics, politics, education, and so on. This is a book...
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…put into practice what I said to myself I would. That when all this comes to pass, which it inevitably will, I’ll do that thing that needs to be done with the people I love as well as the noisy crowds full of people I know nothing about. Maybe it’s as simple as I intend to live this year. But it’s not like I didn’t live in the last one. Again, life will be different. Suddenly a jarring new place we’ll all find ourselves in. Sitting across from someone for seemingly the first time ever without the fear of losing our health in the weeks following. Looking a person who is new in the eyes. Doesn’t matter how long I’ve known the person, it will all be new regardless. Eye to eye, beating hearts close at hand. In the presence of unpredictability and excitement, and perhaps disappointment and boredom. Either way, I intend to find out.
…being pushed to reassess. Having to go into uncharted waters knowing everyone else was having to do the exact same thing. This was all new and we were all having to do our best to figure it out. Doing our best was the order of the day and, for the most part, everyone was doing just that. We were tasked to live through this and we did our best to make it. To survive. To continue on. It was all a big deal. Maybe for once in our lives we were finally able to speak life and death collectively and it not be hyperbole. Where do we go next in all of this? Nowhere too far I hope. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on not going anywhere at all last year. Instead the present beckoned. And I tried to do my best to answer its call.
