I've been designing brands and dissecting websites for over 25 years. What still gets me is how far a brand can drift from the business or human behind it...
Emergency eye surgery rearranges your priorities fast. Detached retina. Horseshoe tear. Ten days face down, 23 hours a day, with a gas bubble holding everything in place while my eye healed. No screens, no work, no version of normal. By day two,...
Urgency and intuition feel identical when you're in the middle of them. The difference only shows up afterward. If you've ever made a fast business decision that felt completely right in the moment and completely wrong three weeks later, this one's...
Over the past decade, roughly $1.02M in my design proposals didn't become projects. Not because the clients weren't great or I didn't want the work. In every one of those conversations, I did the same thing: I consulted honestly and recommended...
I got a mullet yesterday. Is it cool? Hard to say. Is it me? Entirely. My brother cut it. I described what I wanted and we went for it, without polling my audience, checking trend reports, or consulting the internet to see...