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Off-Center

Centered things are invisible. I write about the rest.

You never notice the thing that lines up. You notice the one that's slightly off, and then you can't stop noticing it. That's most of what happens here: something a little out of alignment, taken apart to see what's underneath.

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The Shoes Were Wrong

I have never taken a design class. What I had was a photograph of a shoe in SLAM and a pirated copy of Photoshop, because a basketball video game got the sneakers wrong. Twenty five years later, that is still the whole method.

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Featured Post

The Shoes Were Wrong

I have never taken a design class. What I had was a photograph of a shoe in SLAM and a pirated copy of Photoshop, because a basketball video game got the sneakers wrong. Twenty five years later, that is still the whole method.