Inconspicuous Consumption
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These days my work is focusing on objects, artifacts, design, and memories, all of which I tend to examine in excruciating detail. That’s what Inconspicuous Consumption is about. Source
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Search ArticlesThe Pleasures of Poor Product Design Original
(Photo © Katerina Kamprani — The Uncomfortable) Note: This post is not paywalled. Enjoy! — Paul As you all know, I’m a big fan of good design. But I recently learned of a project devoted to bad design, and I can’t get enough of it.
H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery
December 5th, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Hoefler) Note: This is the first part of a two-article series. Also, it is not paywalled. Enjoy! — Paul The photo above, taken about two and a half months ago, shows the entrance to Unity Temple, a Unitarian Universalist church in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. Designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright (himself a lifelong Unitarian), it opened in 1908 and is sometimes referred to as the world’s first modern building.