If lost, please return
Quick update: I’ve departed the Eames Institute. Feeling a lot of feelings about it! Can’t wait to see what the EI, LMP, and Stout folks get up to, what a fantastic bunch. Will be watching those spaces. I’m taking a breather for a bit, mainly focusing on some health stuff, reconnecting, and making new connections.
Yet again, a long drought between my last post and this one. Unusual for me in the reasonably recent past, now a common occurrence. I keep asking myself “why?”, why am I not posting as much when I loved it so much before? Edit: Wow I just realized my last post was almost a year
The self has been on standby recently. My unread emails badge is something to behold, the blog is looking cobwebby, the unread books are piling up, the knee is misbehaving. Need to get proactive about this, but also want to be gentle and forgiving while the kids are so young and sleep so ephemeral. Sweet
Can’t believe I hadn’t come across Roy McMakin’s furniture before. I was scrolling through Bluesky the other day and Shannon Mattern had shared his article “Some Chests of Drawers I Have Known” on Untapped. His work, and that essay, catches in the throat.
Accidental pocket field recording at our best local pizza place.
Heads up: we’re hiring at the Eames Institute. For the Digital Experience Designer role, we’re looking for someone with a product and/or systems-oriented background that has major typographic, brand, and storytelling sensitivity. Ideally someone with a bit of code experience but a designer first and foremost, with real-world experience in both the cultural and tech
Happy trails
I came across a sparrow yesterday on the busy corner near B A’s daycare on the way to pick them up. It looked like a tiny pile of leaves on the concrete, and people kept coming *this close* to stepping on it by accident. I realized what it was in exactly the same moment as a