My dear friend and occasional design compatriot, Deron Bauman, interviewed one of my favorite internet friends/web personalities, Tim Carmody. You should really read the interview: Deron Bauman: I think I’d like to start by talking about Liberal Arts 2.0. It’s an idea Jason Kottke proposed as a way to give context to what he does — and [...]

Jason really did it right with his redesign. It fits, very much, with the aesthetic I was going for with just enough is more. You should check out Whitney SSm zoomed in on an iPhone retina display. Just gorgeous.

I guest posted about the Future of Publishing over at the Lone Gunman, while Lloyd was wandering the globe. The series in order: There is something outside of the text. Social Publishing Books, Printing, and Self-Publishing “We have broken your business, now we want your machines.” Newspaper Odds and Ends New Authors and the Web Publishing [...]

This was originally printed over at Marks and Meaning. I’ll spare you my usual critique of the Post-Warholian aesthetic, but there is no doubt that the aesthetic has permeated our culture. The democratization of art injected into the scene pop culture and, consequently, greater, more fragmented imagery. We became a culture of repetition and allusion, a culture of [...]