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Articles and Press
Prototypes, write-ups, and things we're paying attention to. Some of it ships, some of it's just a note to our future selves. This is where it lives before it goes anywhere else.
News & Media
Lucky
Marissa Stapley has been a client for years. This month the Apple TV adaptation of her novel became the number one show in a dozen countries.
A Year in Pokémon
We work in clusters. Real estate, medical, law, finance. Then one referral leads somewhere completely unexpected.
Out-Specify, Don’t Outspend
$54.48 a lead, 58 registrations, and a product priced in eight figures. Seventy-one days of paid search to ultra-high-net-worth buyers.
Published in The AI Anthology
Asked to review a chapter on why good AI systems stall inside healthcare. The review ran in the book, on page 516.
Earned, Not Built
Rebranding an established business is harder than starting from scratch. The equity is real, the risk is asymmetric, and the people who matter most are never in the room.
Design & Code
The Scene Is the Ad
From cigarette smoke to Barbie pink, a century of cinema and the long, complicated relationship between the screen and the brand.
The Bento Grid
From Japanese lunch boxes to Apple keynotes to the modern web. The origins, evolution, and enduring appeal of one of design’s most satisfying layout patterns.
World Times
A tiny menu bar clock built in an afternoon. One glance tells you the time, the weather, and whether the person you want to message is awake.
Dark Mode Is Not an Inversion
Most brand palettes are chosen against white paper. Put them on a dark screen and half of them disappear.
The Artist’s Website Problem
A painting needs a wall, a room, and a distance to stand back to. A website has none of those. The good artist sites accept this.
Everything Looks the Same Now
Generative tools return the average of what they were trained on. For a brand, the average is the one thing you cannot afford to be.
