Opening one’s mouth on the internet sure hits different in 2026, huh!

Regardless I felt it was time to submit something to you, in what may be the final few months before the internet becomes pure noise. Here is the first (trusting my follow-through) in a series of posts documenting recent work that has been neglected by this public record.

Let’s begin by showing you some fun compositions I’ve made for These Ways as part of our ongoing identity work.

At These Ways our whole thing is balancing between Strategy and Design, two disciplines that require a continuously opening and closing, a process that breathes. Our visual foundation stems from this tension between control and chaos, method and improvisation. Playful colors set within strict frameworks.

Many of the subject matters we often discuss (AI development & crash, creative strategy and UX research as examples) are so far removed from nature that visual metaphors become ever-abstracting simulacrums of the actual subject matter. Thus we could easily arrive in the landscape of anemic powerpoints full of illustrations that simply try too hard or become walls of text.

Instead, I divided function and form into an abstract, often animated and interestingly textured background, superimposed with sparse and information-forward line drawings to convey important principles. A wide and ever-evolving collection of colorful properties gives us an ability for narrow and repeatable visuals when we need, while a fresh change of clothes is only a click away.

Normally these pieces would each stand on their own, being repeated and turned around through its container medium (a presentation, website, etc), but I present them to you here in a big crazy pile instead.

PS. My work titled First Light, mentioned only in passing publicly but remaining top-of-mind, continues. Ask me again in twenty years.

Thanks for watching babe!

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