Observations, essays, and running notes.
What if the push to make every public space 'readable' is actually erasing the complexity that makes cities worth living in?
Found a crosswalk in downtown Flint that deposits you on a curb with no sidewalk. Just grass and a fence.
Every design decision is also a maintenance decision. We almost never talk about it that way.
Brick weathers. Vinyl pretends nothing happened. What does that say about the values embedded in material choices?
The placement of a single bench encodes more political decisions than most people realize.
The origin story of this project: why design essays, and why now.
Noticed something walking through the airport today about how we communicate danger through letterforms.