Now | 🔥 Matter vs. Spirit

Heading to Rotterdam for an exchange with WdKA!
Teaching Design at Concordia University in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke.
Which means endless administrative duties and dealing with an institution on 🔥🔥🔥
But also inspiring and rewarding interactions with my students
Developing a research-creation project on publication practices and social movements (of which this blog is a part).
Dog dad living in Mile End.
Sad, and mad, and hella anxious, but chill about it.

Hyperpolitics by Anton Jager
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Why Fish Piss Matters by Andy Brown
Post-Digital Print
Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness
Publishing as method. An excellent survey of small-scale publishing practice in "Asia".
Diversity of Aesthetics. A collection of brilliant conversations by very smart people on social movements and artistic practice.
Subterrane by my friend Valérie Bah which just won a BIG fiction award. So proud!
Graphic Design in the Dark Age by Harsh Patel.
Through Witnessing: Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design edited by Nida Abdullah, Chris Lee, Xinyi Li.
Kathy Ferguson's Letterpress Revolution which she personally sent to me 🖤. Feeling deeply kindred.
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Perhaps surprisingly, this is the book that got me thinking about publishing practices. After finishing it, I found out Anna's partner was anarchist political scientist James C. Scott. Makes sense!
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Grateful this book got me reading again.

My are.na
My "former" graphic design studio LOKI (circa 2014–2023)
My book Design Against Design.
New AK Press Logo!
Exhibition design for Stella's Par et Pour exhibition at the MEM.
Designed Karen Tam's monograph Sheen–Wah–Zree, published by Plein sud éditions.
Design Montréal's lnclusive Design toolkit by Six Cinquième and Never Was Average.
Honoured to have some work and ideas featured in Aggie Toppins' Thinking through Graphic Design History.

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