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Make it plug, make it work, make it nice

$ · April 4, 2022

On the one hand, tools don’t matter. On the other, there is USB-C. In text, I try to seek the wonder in elegance. So I will say some nice things about USB-C...

The Sacred Ritual of the International Home & Housewares Show

$ · March 31, 2022

Do you like design? (You probably do, since you are reading this.) Are you a victim of the horrors of late capitalism? Do you pay attention to trends in...

Overcompensatory image capture

March 30, 2022

It is time for photography text. I have been taking pictures since 1994. I have posted a bunch of recent work here. I have owned cameras from pretty much...

"They don't need my help"

$ · March 28, 2022

Like every millennial in a big city, I was into craft beer for a while. Who knew that there was a class of beer that looked like tar, tasted like chocolate,...

A non-comprehensive overview of soy sauce

March 25, 2022

There’s a certain sort of face that people make that conveys, approximately, are you utterly kidding me, crossed with of course you do, crossed with this...

An unconventional jawn

$ · March 23, 2022

The only two mailing lists I subscribe to are Dirk’s Friday Fresh Fish Flash, an important business text about a local seafood shop; and Blackbird Spyplane,...

Stahl patina

March 21, 2022

A few years ago, I visited the Stahl House in Los Angeles. You’ve probably seen it before: it’s the Case Study MCM masterpiece perched at the top of a cliff...

The state of text

March 19, 2022

Every so often I will write about the state of text. This won’t count towards the every-other-free-text thing that we have going on here. It’s just some text...

Bowl stack

$ · March 17, 2022

The secret to amazing cooking is staying organized, and the secret to staying organized is the useless term mise en place, which is French for “organize...

Open questions I still have about coffee, even though I am ravenously obsessed with it and spend lots of time trying to learn about it

March 14, 2022

Why would you turn your AeroPress upside down? What is the difference, flavor wise, between Hario, Chemex, and Kalita Wave? What is the difference, flavor &...

Market feral

$ · March 11, 2022

I mean, you’re going to eat street food. You don’t go all the way there, wherever there is, so you can eat cheffy stuff all the time. That is a renunciation...

How to airport

March 9, 2022

Since my career began in 2006, I have been to a total of 85 airports in 25 countries across 258 segments. I have seen enough. I am allowed to teach you how...

Bul-Gama Bonanza

$ · March 8, 2022

Chicago is about 3 million people, and the suburbs are about 8 million people. So there must be something good in the suburbs, right? There, grudgingly, is....

Italicus Flip

March 4, 2022

A flip is a genre of cocktail where you throw a whole egg in with everything, shake it bare to mix & form a merengue, and then shake with ice to cool the...

On the marginal generosity of Google Slides

$ · March 3, 2022

A few years ago, my pal Jon Bell made Design Explosions, where he did some enormous deep dives into the way that specific apps work. Here is one on mapping....

The marginal generosity of Google Slides

$ · March 1, 2022

A few years ago, my pal Jon Bell made Design Explosions, where he did some enormous deep dives into the way that specific apps work. Here is one on mapping....

This is text. Text intentions

February 28, 2022

I will discuss text now. I won’t discuss text often, but if you are going to discuss text on text, it should definitely be at the beginning of text. There is...