The Haul Earth Ledger | From Consumer Culture to Maker Culture — Co-authored by Pedro Gil Farias | Project page: Haul.earth We want something when we don’t have it; We don’t take care of it when we have it; We only miss it when it’s gone. These three principles explain both our urge for over-consumption, our careless, mostly unilateral, relationship to the…

I’ve been trying to write this debrief of my experience at Quicksand Design Studio for a good five or six months. It’s been a grueling process to both reflect and recall while actively seeking new employment and to “reinvent” myself. However it has undeniably helped me gain clarity on my…

Design sprints are a lot like particle accelerators. You get a handful of interesting profiles in a room, throw in some trends or insights from your research, and hope to get your mind blown. Or at least that is the intent. …

Since last Monday, seven days ago, I’ve been trying to become a functioning Delhi resident. This has made this week an especially eventful one during which everything that I’ve seen, I’ve experienced simultaneously as a tourist and as an aspiring resident. …

The other day I was invited by a friend and colleague of mine, Fernando Olmedo, to run a design research workshop in his class. …

Known for its kitsch aesthetic of elongated, distressed lettering, the typeface Papyrus never quite seemed to find a place in the hearts and minds of the design intelligentsia. …

Making sense of images posted on social media is something we, as human media consumers, may sometimes take for granted. But if there’s one thing the recent hype around deep learning has shown, it is just how challenging of a skill this is for machines to pick up. Nonetheless considerable…

Here we are, in a snowy forest at the heart of the action. Around us is a confusing amalgam of ballet and an explosion-heavy wack-a-mole game is under way. In it, the protagonists twirl and hurl at winter-camouflaged enemies. …

This book is a collection of essays that loosely drift from artist to artist, process to process, to see how each of them deals with the notion of (re)appropriation either of their work or through their work or loss of their work. Each text was a beautiful occasion to discover new artists, suggested by teachers, families, friends who knew about my project. Above all each text has come to greatly influence my own process as a producer of stuff, maker of things and imaginaries.