Never white, but never “black enough”. And still taken advantage of.

It is not enough to strive to be “good”. We must be “good for something”, to use our lives as the testing ground for the unfolding of some shared desire, dream, or objective. This “radical utility”, the feeling of being useful for something that transcends our own individual lives, is what propels us from good to great.

In a television show I was watching recently (I don’t recall which one) one of the characters said,“It’s a strange country, America. Everyone seems so lonely.”
We are a lonely people, and not only because our families are spread across the continent, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles of highways, shopping malls, and cornfields. We […]

What is the best way to think about and ultimately teach CSS? How should we, as designers, build our understanding of the structure that underlies our work?

Clients are often difficult because they feel powerless in the designer-client relationship. Teaching clients the rhyme and reason behind why I do what I do often helps them trust me, which inclines them to leave me to my work.