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Updated Jun 16, 2025

Jamming on

Building creative community and exploring space as social scaffolding with the Ruiz-Knotts

Building creative community and exploring space as social scaffolding with the Ruiz-Knotts

Building creative community and exploring space as social scaffolding with the Ruiz-Knotts

A pixel font universe for programming and prose. Two styles, two variable axes, sundry art programs, and a web application for making squishy variable fonts

A pixel font universe for programming and prose. Two styles, two variable axes, sundry art programs, and a web application for making squishy variable fonts

A pixel font universe for programming and prose. Two styles, two variable axes, sundry art programs, and a web application for making squishy variable fonts

Punch-o-tron

You gotta digitize data before you can visualize it : /

Punch-o-tron

You gotta digitize data before you can visualize it : /

Punch-o-tron

You gotta digitize data before you can visualize it : /

This yet Unnamed Place

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This yet Unnamed Place

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This yet Unnamed Place

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Generative Art

Programming visual art. Adventures in p5.js, mostly. Occasionally plotting on an AxiDraw SE/A3.

Generative Art

Programming visual art. Adventures in p5.js, mostly. Occasionally plotting on an AxiDraw SE/A3.

Generative Art

Programming visual art. Adventures in p5.js, mostly. Occasionally plotting on an AxiDraw SE/A3.

Cultivating a community of people exploring code as a creative medium.

Cultivating a community of people exploring code as a creative medium.

Cultivating a community of people exploring code as a creative medium.

Old "work" projects

Design System Starter Kit

A library of minimally styled Figma components to kickstart or supplement design system projects

Design System Starter Kit

A library of minimally styled Figma components to kickstart or supplement design system projects

Design System Starter Kit

A library of minimally styled Figma components to kickstart or supplement design system projects

Figma Scripting Playground

A fun place to help designers learn JavaScript, explore the Figma API, and start making their own tools

Figma Scripting Playground

A fun place to help designers learn JavaScript, explore the Figma API, and start making their own tools

Figma Scripting Playground

A fun place to help designers learn JavaScript, explore the Figma API, and start making their own tools

Wrapped or shelved

Easie

A little tool for creating cubic bezier easing functions for generative art

Easie

A little tool for creating cubic bezier easing functions for generative art

Easie

A little tool for creating cubic bezier easing functions for generative art

Mazes for Programmers

Working my way through a book on coding twisty little passages. ASCII Mazes as substrate for concrete poetry

Mazes for Programmers

Working my way through a book on coding twisty little passages. ASCII Mazes as substrate for concrete poetry

Mazes for Programmers

Working my way through a book on coding twisty little passages. ASCII Mazes as substrate for concrete poetry

Reading

The Black Locomotive

Rian Hughes

The Black Locomotive

Rian Hughes

The Black Locomotive

Rian Hughes

The Black Locomotive

Rian Hughes

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

Recently faves

Invisible Cities (Reread)

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities (Reread)

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities (Reread)

Italo Calvino

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

XX

Rian Hughes

XX

Rian Hughes

XX

Rian Hughes

XX

Rian Hughes

Maeda @ Media

John Maeda

Maeda @ Media

John Maeda

Maeda @ Media

John Maeda

Maeda @ Media

John Maeda

Formative Nonfiction

Finite and Infinite Games

James P. Carse

Finite and Infinite Games

James P. Carse

Finite and Infinite Games

James P. Carse

Finite and Infinite Games

James P. Carse

Island

Aldous Huxley

Island

Aldous Huxley

Island

Aldous Huxley

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich

Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich

Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstner

Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstner

Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstner

Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstner

Paused

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Current Mood

Any sufficiently thoughtful technology is indistinguishable from magic

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