gram-design

  • 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…

  • 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…