How I came to meet Howard Schultz and why he's good for America.
Dead homeless people in the alley. Pot smoking in the bathrooms. Unsolicited crushes from the mentally ill who roamed the
On Laser GaGa and beautiful mathematics.
I often credit my aesthetic sensibilities to growing up in the beautiful Rockies, but maybe they’re due instead to
On design, disability, and the Rocky Mountains.
One of my favorite design books is Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin. It’s a book that explores the
How Steve Jobs got me through grad school.
Will is an engineer. I am a designer. When we first got married, I was a Mac, he was a
On urban semiotics and self image.
In This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide To Semiotics, author Sean Hall outlines key semiotic concepts
Time as construct. Time, architected.
The thing I love most about experimental film is the way it allows for architecting time. I spent a year
On being a genius.
Last year, Matthew Carter. This year, Shwetak Patel, a fellow Husky and computer science and engineering professor. Makes me so
On Good Taste.
I’m speaking at Betascape this coming weekend on visual literacy. While I think everyone can be taught visual literacy
On loving Frederick, a love letter.
Frederick Law Olmsted, photo via answers.com
On July 23, 2011, I recited these design stories at the Boston Globe
On loving Frederick, part eight.
Oslo, Mies, and the Golden Hour. Leakin Park at Gwynn’s Falls, Baltimore. Photo by Callie Neylan, August 2011.
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