Dipping back into the quasi-corporate world to do some freelancing… eye-opening to see how things have changed since I last worked full time in industry.

I gave a period of my intro digital arts studio to an AI discussion. Gave them a vaguely anti-AI article + a vaguely pro-AI article. Everyone read, discussed in groups, and reported back. Consensus was hugely anti- except most agreed they liked Grammarly. Maybe not surprising for a studio course.

Thanks for the magazine, @aaup.org.

Reading Psuedo-Dionysus for graphic design purposes is not something I would have predicted but I'm glad to be here all the same.

f you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

My exhibition Metadata Recomposed is at the University of South Dakota through early May. www.usd.edu/the-south-da...

Photos of the installation of my exhibit Metadata Recomposed, at the I.D. Weeks Library at the University of South Dakota through May.

Three thousand-somethingth to quote this and I'm just gonna say the Americans.

I am currently assembling materials for my first ever solo exhibition, opening at the end of this month at the University of South Dakota Library. It will be a mix of new and old work, all publishing-related. More information will be forthcoming but for now, here's a peek:

Apologies if my reports from northern Wisconsin are getting old, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social but today, passing through Vilas County, I saw a sign that read "Trump 2024 - No Wars." The irony is overwhelming.

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Always kinda blows my mind that Kwik Trip, of all evil oil and gas companies, has this genius UX design element on their pumps, a mute button for the screen blaring ads. Wisconsin can be proud of this, at the very least.

"We are asking the UW Board of Regents to stand up for students' right to learn and the faculty's right to teach, both of which are intertwined with democracy itself," writes Neil Kraus, AFT-Wisconsin VP of Higher Education.

Too cloudy in da Kenosh to see northern lights. :(

Making animated gifs with DrawBot, fun times.

Designer by day, hot saucier by night. 🌶️

The things one sees when walking one's dog along Lake Michigan. I wouldn't be enthusiastic about being out in open water in this thing, even if it wasn't currently swamped on the beach. It would probably also make a good album cover for some sad bastard inde folk band…

44 years ago - Dead Kennedys ⚡ Klaus Flouride, East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra and D.H.Peligro, September 1981, Photo by Peter Noble #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

Question for graphic, interaction, web & app #design professionals/instructors. Do you think it's relevant to teach undergrads #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript in today's world of #Figma and other popular prototyping tools? Not sure what kind of response I'll get, but I am genuinely curious.

I had the fawaffle at the MN State Fair. It was good, lots of potential, but I think demand kinda outstripped quality on the production side of things.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Graphic design so powerful

Took a ride through rural northern WI today and had flashbacks galore from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social's Wisconsin Death Trip redux from a few years ago. Essential reading: www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11...

Product Design Studio, it was such a great overview and chance to practice how ideas for products, services, and really any creative endeavor are developed and refined. Excellent balance of theory and practice.

I tell people this kind of shape-as-letter thing rarely works well. Jeer? Gun-ee-gun? Lazy stuff.

I've got a piece of work in the ISCC Color Shifts exhibition, you can check out the online portion here: iscc.org/CI25-Color-E...

I think LLMs are appealing to a certain set of people who think they're entitled to be good at something without wanting to actually put in any work mostly, it seems people who think the disciplines of the Humanites aren't "real" and so just any rube can do it. Chris Arnade, basically

1000x this

Rode into the city and back today on the Metra and no one checked my ticket either way.

Just checked some old reliable links that I use to supplement my instruction on information architecture in web design. The dot gov ones, more broadly addressing accessibility and designing for disability accommodations, are all gone. Thanks for making the internet even worse, nu-techbro overlords!

First post here, currently listening to an artist talk from Carlo Alberto Giardina on synesthesia and his mural-painting/teaching practices. www.instagram.com/carloalberto...