Spotted this issue of Emigre magazine (Issue 29 · 1994, guest designed by The Designers Republic) in the background of an episode of Black Mirror (S7 E4). This warped my 13-year-old brain when it came out. Had to dig my copy out of storage. So good.

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Klee vibes

Zibaldone, Autochthon · 2022

happy tuesday.

Coffee and a soft-boiled egg. Murakami and fresh snow.

Plotter drawing from the archives. #axidraw #plotter

It's a two pots of coffee kind of day.

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Diving into animation plotting #drawing #plotter #motion

Fredkin's paradox, Zibaldone [detail]

Hundreds of Celia Pym’s stunning darned socks are currently on show at NOW Gallery in SE10. www.instagram.com/celiapym celiapym.com

Who is doing cool things with plotters on here? Trying to find my people. Plotted colored pencil · 2021 #plotterart #axidraw

When I interview undergraduate candidates for the design program I teach in, I ask if they play(ed) with Legos. Whether they did or not doesn't matter, but if they say yes and launch into an enthusiastic monologue describing their process and what they love about Legos, it does.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. — C.F. Kettering

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. ― Emerson 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴, 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘐 · 𝘐𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,...

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano Cartesian, Rings Genesis · 2021

Ceasura, Rings Genesis · 2021

Halcyon, Rings Genesis

Just finished Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. ★★★☆☆ What's a better Murakami book to start with?

Observations from Flatland, 2023

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Vermiform · Zibaldone #generativeart #art

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Tetrad · Zibaldone #generative #abstractart #geometricabstract #mathart

Oenomel · Zibaldone #generativeart #abstract #art

Componenti Rings Genesis · Series II 2021 #generativeart #abstractart

Zibaldone · Tyranny of small decisions [detail] #generativeart #art

“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"Designers who design like machines will be replaced by machines." — Katherine & Michael McCoy, Designers-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art · 1989 [ Confecta ]

Zibaldone · Ozymandias

Zibaldone · Mamihlapinatapai

Zibaldone · Künstlerroman

Zibaldone · Asterism

Zibaldone · Cosmic latte

From the archives.

From the archives.

Study from the archives.

This Celestial Seasonings ad from the 70s goes hard.

"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." Alan W. Watts

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