It was a great honor hosting the 2025 AIGA Design Conference in Los Angeles last week, where we explored the theme of “Design + Performance.” Thanks again to all of our attendees, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors. See you next year in Kansas City! Photos by Frank Aymami #AIGADesignConf

Back in the classroom at @svanyc.bsky.social MFA in Design for Social Innovation. Here’s today’s agenda:

THERE IS ONLY ONE STRUGGLE - a reminder from newly recognized AIGA Medalist Rick Griffith. It’s a message that is relevant all day, every day, but especially today.

Happy Selective Sympathy Day to all who celebrate

Konnichiwa from Little Tokyo

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

TFW bullies gaslight you into thinking that they are the real victims

WTF, LA 🤖 🐕?

Sunday pool day #LosAngeles

Mere minutes after enjoying my breakfast burrito in peace, I was approached by a gaggle of Scientologists with suspiciously perky smiles asking if I wanted to take a "stress test." So far, LA is serving up a 100% peak #LosAngeles.

Good morning, Kansas City.

Heard this tune in a movie lately? Here’s my cover version of “Silver Dagger,” a folk ballad made famous by Joan Baez in the 60's. It also appeared in the 2024 Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, and the 2025 gay period romance, The History of Sound. #Music #Ukulele www.youtube.com/shorts/YZUQp...

The harvest continues! The branches that the tomatoes were on broke, so I had to harvest them green, but they work great in a salsa verde.

The AIGA Podcast, which I co-host and produce with Giulia Donatello, is up for another Signal Award this year, this time in the "Artists & Designers Shaping Culture" category. Can you take a moment to vote for us at the link below? Thanks! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... #Design #Podcast

Pawpaws procured! Can’t wait to try them.

@heretakis.bsky.social on the unequal price of becoming a designer: "The children of privilege are here in growing numbers, reshaping the very landscape of design education." heretakis.medium.com/the-elephant... #Design #DesignEducation #SocialClass

Sunday Supper: Roasted cod, potatoes, chorizo and mushrooms with an herb, lemon and garlic sauce

If I ever do a secret farm to table pop-up, this would be on the menu: corn, zucchini, mushroom, chorizo and cheese fritters with remoulade and a homemade fermented habanero and peach hot sauce.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Exactly this

Who are your pressured into empathizing with? Who are you punished for empathizing with? Who benefits from such a system? And why?

🇧🇷 Ordem, Progresso, e uma cerveja bem geladinha 🍺

I got my shots for the season 💉

Color me skeptical, too, since this administration just fired a whole bunch of great designers who were working on government services. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...

What did we do? I wrote an original song after a six-year hiatus from songwriting. It’s called “A Little Bend,” and it’s about an awkward intimate encounter between two best friends. I recorded a raw, unplugged version that I’ll be posting soon. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak screenshot.

If you feel like you’ve stalled in your life, just remember that Kim Davis has had 10 years to stop being as hateful a bigot and hasn’t changed a bit. You’ve probably grown more as a person in the past 10 years. Celebrate that.

I was already a Pedro Pascal fan, but in the new Fantastic Four movie, he was FATHER

Have a ball sharing with friends #DogsOfFireIsland

On vacation on #FireIsland for the week!

Sharing some new soothing sounds. Here's my arrangement of composer Joe Hisaishi's "Path of the Wind," a tune from Studio Ghibli's classic 1988 animated film, My Neighbor Totoro. I just started learning this instrument, the HOPWELL steel tongue drum, last week amzn.to/3GVxzBZ

🍅 Tomato time! These 3 weigh ~1 pound / 500 grams ❤️

“Three Brooklyn College adjuncts in various departments were notified on June 13 that they were not reappointed — even though they had been assigned classes for the upcoming fall semester...” Full article (behind paywall)⤵️ thechiefleader.com/stories/psc-...

Me and Jax in Sag Harbor last weekend

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Raspberry season is here! Red Heritage and yellow Anne varieties: a total of 235 grams today

I’m heading to Fire Island for a week in August. I’ll be staying with friends in Cherry Grove. Any recommendations for a first-timer?

Happy for more folks to see what “scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist” means in real time. Unhappy that we have to deal with this 💩. But 💩 is fertilizer for minds and movements to grow 🌻

The Life of Chuck is an extraordinary movie. It takes you on a journey from “WTF!?” to “I contain multitudes”and “every life, a universe.”

#Taiwanese #Taigi #Hokkien phrase of the week sī-ui ūn-tōng (TRS) sī-ui ūn-tōng (POJ) 示威運動 demonstration, protest march This was during my first visit to Taiwan in 1989. Connecting with my Taiwanese roots meant street protests against fascists.

Officially lost my Del's virginity at Providence Pride last weekend. Safe to say, I'm hooked and well on my way to becoming a real Rhody. 😉🍉🍋🏳️‍🌈💦

Broadway, #Providence

🏳️‍⚧️ Hello trans flag sunset, good bye Providence Pride weekend 🏳️‍🌈

I wish I could grab every person I see in NYC under the age of 50 and tell them how much power they have to change the political narrative if they just show up to vote. They’re not the ones getting polled, and if they show up to vote, there will be a shocking outcome on Tuesday.

Happy Pride!

It’s so sad seeing people I thought were smart fall for propaganda and then start to boost it and regurgitate it themselves

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

Crimes of the Century How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law. nymag.com/intelligence...

Spoiler alert for the next season of incoming propaganda: 1. The bully is the victim 2. War is peace 3. Oppression is freedom

Happy Daddy Issues Day to all who celebrate!