Companies are cutting junior designers to save money while pouring that money — and more — into AI compute costs. A living, documented record of what's actually happening.

Movement, perimenopause, and what the science actually says about your brain right now. A designer approaching 50 makes the case for lifting weights.

AI isn't one thing — it shows up differently depending on where you sit in the design process. Here's how I think about it at every level, from concept to production.

A cider, a phone, Facebook Marketplace, and a 1971 purple Karmann Ghia named Dragonfly. Forty years after seeing Pretty in Pink, I think I'm about to drive one home.

A year ago today I was laid off after six and a half years. Here's what I actually learned — about design, about work, and about what happens when a job ends and the rest of your life doesn't.

A year after a layoff, three rounds of interviews, and a phone call from John — the pivot worked. Just not the way I expected.

Individual case studies tell project stories. A collection page tells a career story. Here's why I built one — and why yours might need one too.

Six years of prepress work taught me something most designers never learn. Print isn't just a deliverable — it's a discipline, and it's disappearing.

A five-minute task, a medium-sized confident brown tabby, and one reused component later — here's how a utility closet became one of my favorite things on my portfolio site.

Where AI fits into my process, where it doesn't, and how I've kept my own voice intact while using it as a tool rather than a crutch.

A good interview, a cup of coffee, and then a blinking folder with a question mark. How a Tuesday turned into a Mac Studio M4 Max order.

It's not coincidence — it's chemistry. On BDNF, the Default Mode Network, and why stepping away from the screen is sometimes the most productive thing you can do.

Grief doesn't shrink. The world just grows around it. On loss, the brain, and finding your way back to the work.

Two years ago today, I said goodbye to my soul/heart cat, Vinz Clortho. This is for him.

Getting 25-year-old files off vintage Zip discs — a hardware adventure and the start of a time capsule series.

Some projects find you. Others you find yourself coming back to — not because you have to, but because the work mattered enough the first time that walking away from the second chapter wasn't really an option.

A logo grid wasn't telling the right story. What happened when I rebuilt from scratch. For years, my portfolio homepage was a clean grid of client logos. No context. No story. Just names — and the assumption that visitors would connect the dots between a recognizable brand and what I actually did for them.