I love the design process, especially the typesetting. Which led me to wonder: who were the first Native typesetters? The answer led me down a rabbit hole of research.

The truth is, an archive isn't only boxes in the desert. It’s the recipe nobody wrote down, the story your auntie tells the same way every time (for the hundredth time…), the name someone will one day be glad you kept.

The American experiment turns two hundred and fifty this week; the whole country's rolling out the bunting, the fireworks, the commemorative flatware—as if a quarter-millennium is a long time to have been somewhere. Adorable.

Yes, you can judge a book by its cover; it’s paid my bills and won us awards for years. (Nerds!) Covers have to express and say so much in milliseconds. Clear. Concise. Energized. Colorful (sometimes). But always that pull of “...hey… come over here and open me up…” So what would you do if you saw this on a table or shelf?

Here it is. Something a little different and new for me—a newsletter mixing together design, art, books, history, IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, and People of Color), along with sass and fascinations.