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  • Tailored, Part Three

    Tailored, Part Three

    I Didn’t Frost the Glass How a privacy problem became a portrait, and why the safe answer would have been the wrong one. Two pieces ago I argued that a designer’s real job doesn’t change when the tools do — that the instrument is just the instrument, and the judgment sits somewhere the software can’t…

  • Home(s)

    Home(s)

    Ten years documenting Cluj-Napoca’s communist-era housing blocks — on film. In 2027, the work travels to Brooklyn. In 2027, a selection of images from Home(s) will be on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the Photoville Festival — one of the largest free photography festivals in the United States. It’s a long way…

  • The brief told me my audience was 95% male. That turned out to be the least interesting thing about it.

    The brief told me my audience was 95% male. That turned out to be the least interesting thing about it.

    Tailored, Part Two The Brief That Assumed a Man One dataset, two readings, and where AI actually belongs in the process. In the last piece I made a distinction between two kinds of designers: the ones who operate the software, and the ones who understand what a tool is for. I traced it across three…

  • Tailored: A Designer’s Instrument, From QuarkXPress to AI

    Tailored: A Designer’s Instrument, From QuarkXPress to AI

    Twenty years, three instruments, one job. The Backbone I started my apprenticeship as a graphic designer in front of an iMac running QuarkXPress. That wasn’t a personal choice — it was the industry standard. For more than a decade, Quark was the backbone of desktop publishing: books, magazines, brochures, and catalogs, nearly everything that went…

  • EE* Pattern

    EE* Pattern

    The EE Pattern is based on the prints inspired from traditional sewing patterns. These metal boxes were used to deposit sugar, different types of flowers and were part of the usual tupperware households in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I started developing this graphic as a low to medium privacy solution for one of…

  • Il Pumo D’Oro Wine label Contest

    Together with Mauro di Maggio from Cantine San Marzano, Jacques.de was holding a label competition. Here are our submissions for this contest. You can read more information about the contest on Jacques.de.

  • Passion for design

    Everything that we design is designing us back! — Jason Silva. Designers are questioning, exploring, creating, innovating etc etc and that is what drives them. The passion is to explore new ways of solving problems, finding new solutions to existing problem and looking for problems that need solutions. Then using the design skill you have…