I write about how design shapes what we believe, how we see ourselves, and what digital traces we leave behind.

Internet History

From Screen to Zine in Figma shortcut (2025)
Trash Metaphors on Dirt (2024)
The Inside Story of New York City’s 34-Year-Old Social Network, ECHO on MIT Technology Review (2023)
Early Web Design Helped a Generation Express Themselves Online. How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? on AIGA Eye on Design (2022)
A Pioneer of Digital Design Looks Back on a Defining Era on The New York Times (2021)
How Type Designers Are Digitizing and Preserving Cyrillic Typefaces in Serbia on AIGA Eye on Design (2021)
Interview with Stacy Horn on Little Chefs (2020)
Tales of Web 1.0 on SuperHi (2020)

Authoring Identity

The Ownership of Names in The Are.na Annual (2025)
The Right to Be Forgotten in Empty Set (2025)
Melting Legacies: The Overlooked Ties Between a Ski Lodge, Independent Publishing, and the Art of Book Design in HARDPACK (2025)
Becoming A. Banana, independently published book (2024)
How Heart-Shaped Frames Became a Symbol of Reclaimed Femininity and a Non-Binary Fashion Staple on AIGA Eye on Design (2022)
Pink Hair on What Did the 2010s Look Like? (2020)

The Truth Is Out There

Vlach Magic and Missing Phone Numbers in Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2025)
Generative AI Has Ushered In the Next Phase of Digital Spirituality on WIRED (2023)

What Politics Look Like

This Is Why Donald Trump Reminds You of an Infomercial on Fast Company (2024)
Grassroots Efforts to Save the USPS on AIGA Eye on Design (2020)
Is There a Nonpartisan Aesthetic? for SuperHi (2020)

Design Education

Whistlegraph, a New Audience for Generative Art on Dirt (2023)
Foreshadows: A Series of Slides and Captions featured in Remote/Control (2021)
What Gets Lost in the Crop? on Super-Hi (2021)
How to Build a Greener Web on SuperHi (2021)
How to Design with Web Accessibility in Mind on Super-Hi (2021)
What Do Graphic Designers Do? on SuperHi (2020)

Book Reviews

Review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design, Edited by Alison Place in Design and Culture (2025)
Review: Interfaces and Us: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject, by Zachary Kaiser in Design and Culture (2025)