This kind of hyper realism is creatively bankrupt. Imagine having such technical ability and then using it to create an uninspiring facsimile of a photo of a hot woman. It's the artistic equivalent of having Baryshnikov work in data entry.

It was clearly an "I've been going through some things" year

We are currently seeing an active and drastic decline in the quality and usability of UIs on almost every platform. There's a limit to how user friendly you can make a product before it starts to circle back around towards inaccessibility (talking to you, Acrobat).

While I'm on the subject of old posters... a periodic reminder that I've been maintaining an open-source spreadsheet of design archives, ephemera, etc. since 2019! Lots of fun stuff like this in there and always looking for more recs to add <3 bit.ly/casualarchivist

Facebook Marketplace is, once again, unmatched

No words. 🕊️

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

Policing is fundamentally anti-academic and seeing them storm campus buildings and assault and arrest students is to witness such a distinct brand of American violence. I am so proud of this country's students.

I have listened to this 100000 times it's so good

Controversial opinion: I think you do owe some people some things

When your audience is *everyone*, it's effectively *no one*

It's giving "FileName_final_V6_ACTUALLY-FINAL4.jpg"

There is nothing quite so End Times coded as the people in power tweeting about pressing, fixable issues like "WON'T SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING, PLEASE?!?!"

Gonna start calling self care "creating value for the shareholders"

Chicago birthed House music!! navypier.org/events/chicago…

A nice thing about not being mayor anymore is I don't care who hears me tell this clown to STFU.

Probably like 50% of being a graphic designer is just being furious about something