Now

Rewriting the type scale for Meridian

Four sizes instead of nine. The argument is that a product surface does not need a scale, it needs a ceiling and a floor.

Reading Ways of Seeing again

Second time in a decade. The chapter on reproduction reads completely differently now that everything is a reproduction.

Learning to sharpen a plane blade

Badly. My grandfather did this in ninety seconds and I have spent four evenings on it.

Taking one new client this autumn

Design systems or a product surface that needs rebuilding. Two months, not two years.

Off social media since March

The writing here is the replacement. It is slower and I have said fewer things I regret.