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The Ownership of Names in The Are.na Annual (2025)
This is why Donald Trump reminds you of an infomercial on Fast Company (2024)
Trash Metaphors on Dirt (2024)
Generative AI Has Ushered In the Next Phase of Digital Spirituality on WIRED (2023)
Whistlegraph, A New Audience for Generative Art on Dirt (2023)
The inside story of New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO on MIT Technology Review (2023)
How Heart-Shaped Frames Became a Symbol of Reclaimed Femininity and a Non-binary Fashion Staple on AIGA Eye on Design (2022)
Early Web Design Helped a Generation Express Themselves Online. How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? on AIGA Eye on Design (2022)
A Pioneer of Digital Design Looks Back on a Defining Era on The New York Times (2021)
How Type Designers are Digitizing and Preserving Cyrillic Typefaces in Serbia on AIGA Eye on Design (2021)
Grassroots Efforts to Save the USPS on AIGA Eye on Design (2020)
Foreshadows: A series of slides and captions featured in Remote/Control (2021)
What Gets Lost in the Crop? on Super-Hi (2021)
How to Build a Greener Web on SuperHi (2021)
How to Design with Web Accessibility in Mind on Super-Hi (2021)
Is There a Nonpartisan Aesthetic? for SuperHi (2020)
Interview with Stacy Horn on Little Chefs (2020)
Tales of Web 1.0 on SuperHi (2020)
What Do Graphic Designers Do? on SuperHi (2020)
Pink Hair on What Did the 2010s Look Like? (2020)