Currently
- Teaching Design at Concordia University in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke.
- Dog dad.
- Slowly developing my research project on publication practices and social movements (of which this blog is a part).
- Working on the art direction and graphic design of a museum exhibition project with Stella at the MEM.
- Weekly Chen style Tai Chi and Baji Quan practice. If you're in Montréal come join us!
Reading
- 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.
- Paul Soulellis' excellent Substack as he works towards his new book Queer Typographies.
- Through Witnessing: Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design edited by Nida Abdullah, Chris Lee, Xinyi Li.
- Just finished Kathy Ferguson's Letterpress Revolution. Feeling deeply kindred.
Elsewhere
- My "former" graphic design studio LOKI (circa 2014–2023)
- My book Design Against Design.
- Kenneth Fitzgerald gave a sweet little shoutout to my book here.
- One of the final design projects from the studio, Karen Tam's monograph Sheen–Wah–Zree has just been published by Plein sud éditions.
- Design Montréal launched an Inclusive Design toolkit that includes an interview with me. You can find it here.
- Honoured to have some work and ideas featured in Aggie Toppins' Thinking through Graphic Design History.
- "Care where no one does" panel discussion with Freek Lomme at the Vancouver Art Book Fair
Soon
- School will start again! Ahhh....
- Heading to the University of Houston School of Art as part of their annual Speaker Series
last update 11.08.25