🌐 Blogging

• 🌐True/False Travel

  An experimental travel guide leverages LLMs to create a playful, structured, and surprising exploration of fictionalized destinations, blending accuracy with creative fabrication.

• ✍️Blog Resurrection

  Using LLMs to pull thousands of old blog posts back from a grave of mangled database text and rotten links

• 📜Convert or Leave

  Go behind the scenes fact-checking The History Channel's 'Convert or Leave' podcast and explore the stark historical choices faced by communities.

• 🗳️Freedom Summer, 1964

  Freedom Summer, 1964, a pivotal turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Get insights from fact-checking a History Channel podcast episode.

• 🗺️Portfolio | History Here 3.0

  In an exciting update to the History HERE app, I've contributed to the launch of version 3.0, which includes seven new historical tours.

• 🛒Portfolio | Envoy

  As the lead designer for Envoy, I have been focused on creating innovative and practical designs for our users.

• 🗺️Articles | History Here

  Exploring the vast narrative of American history, as detailed in the development of the History Here app, which allows users to uncover over 6,000 historical points of interest across the nation.

• 🎨Portfolio | CPS

  A showcase of my minimalist design for a prestigious group of art dealers, highlighting simplicity and elegance in online presentation.

• 📚Portfolio | Andy-Crouch.com

  A visual journey into the work of a nationally-known author, speaker, and editor, focusing on their impactful contributions.

• 🥤Portfolio | Red Bull

  Animated elements showcased for the Red Bull sales team's national gathering, enhancing engagement and presentation quality.

• 📖Portfolio | Coffee Table

  I've been working on special offer ads for my friends at Coffee Table.

• 📖Citation Needed

  Reflecting on the quirks and community-driven nature of Wikipedia's content and editing processes.

• 🎭Portfolio | StageGrade on Broadway

  A creative design template for engaging Broadway enthusiasts—perfect for a weekly StageGrade flyer aimed at ticket buyers.

• 🏠Portfolio | Real Estate

  Here's a glimpse of my latest project, a fully-realized logo and branding for a startup real estate services company. "Our vision was to create a unique identity that speaks to modern homebuyers and sellers."

• 🎨Portfolio | christytennant.com

  I recently created a vibrant WordPress banner and logotype for my friend Christy Tennant's website, showcasing her creative spirit.

• 🎨Portfolio | hrcfalumni.org

  I shared my experience redesigning the HRCF Alumni website to support Harvard campus fellowships.

• 🎬Subtleties

  Reflecting on the complexities of subtitles and their role in film enjoyment and cultural exploration.

• 🎭Portfolio | StageGrade Logo

  I had the pleasure of designing the logo for the relaunch of StageGrade, an innovative publishing startup focused on theater reviews. The graphic element creatively incorporates StageGrade's unique bar graph representations of critical reviews, while the scalloped corners subtly nod to vintage theater tickets.

• 💾Lander, by Nick Gentry

  Check out this striking piece by UK artist Nick Gentry, showcasing mixed media using floppy disks.

• 🧩Portfolio | natebarksdale.com

  A reflection on the design process of my previous website version, inspired by my word search business card and utilizing the Moveable Type platform.

• 🧶A better stocking striper

  Dispatches from the whimsical world of vintage patents.

• 🌍Sites

  Exploring the intersection of culture, art, and commentary across various mediums.

• 🎶Splendid songs for (next to) nothing

  Discover incredible music deals this week, including Emmylou Harris's album and free world music samplers.

• 🌍日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro), video by SOUR and friends

  Celebrate Friday with a unique blend of crowdsourced creativity and J-pop by SOUR, featuring fans from around the world.

• 🎧File sharing

  Where music meets community in a cozy setting.

• 🎨My Money, My Currency, by Hanna von Goeler

  A look at Hanna von Goeler's artistic exploration of currency through painting and humorous imagery.

• 🌐The Web before the Web was the Web

  Exploring the parallels between urban life and online communities, this excerpt draws intriguing comparisons between the vibrancy of New York City and the Internet.

• 🐱AsLOLn

  Combining LOLCat humor with Narnian whimsy in a delightful mashup.

• 🐱LOLCat-tharsis

  In a thought-provoking exploration of internet culture, a Psychology Today editor draws an intriguing parallel between LOLcats and the clever dogs in New Yorker cartoons.

• 🌀The stream-of-consciousness discipline

  An exploration of how modern technology influences writing, contrasting the unfiltered flow of Kerouac's prose with the editing capabilities of contemporary word processors.

• 🏺Blogs as ‘Cabinets of Wonder’

  Are blogs basically just Renaissance collections of curiosity?

• 🌎They vote by night

  Exploring how voter patterns and population density visually intersect through creative mapping techniques.

• 💔Geography of longing

  Here's an alternative to the state-by-state maps we're being bombarded with in these latter electoral days

• 🤝Shepherding an online community

  A thoughtful exploration of the necessity for moderation in online communities.

• 🥤Carbonation nation

  An exploration of regional names for soft drinks across the U.S.

• 🖥️Portfolio | culture-making.com

  As curator and co-creator of the Culture Making website, I developed the initial site architecture and layout in collaboration with Andy Crouch and Yee Design.

• 🎶Mix CD | Here Is a Good One

  A captivating mix of hip-hop, indie pop, and eclectic sound clips, inspired by an old advertising card for a roll-top oak desk.

• 🎶Mix CD | reRQ

  Reflecting on the art of mix-making and its connection to magazine creation.