The Place Where Nothing Ever Happens

I’m not entirely sure when design started to promise little things that suddenly seemed essential. Maybe it was when it stopped being quiet. Or when it began explaining things before anyone had even asked. …
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By admin
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December 16, 2025
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6 min read

The Spiral of Nonsense

I don’t trust anyone who posts two or three times a week as a rule.That’s not consistency, it’s obedience. It’s dancing without wanting to.Serious work doesn’t follow a fixed rhythm. It doesn’t conveniently end …
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By admin
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October 20, 2025
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4 min read

Designing with Your Fists

Near where I live, there’s a poster that hasn’t moved in eight years.It’s in a closed newsstand at the end of San Jacinto Street, sealed behind glass. I guess the stand shut down and …
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By admin
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October 17, 2025
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5 min read

Figaro’s throat

Lefebvre tells us in his construction of space¹ that in order to destroy a society the conquerors razed its monuments to the ground by fire or demolition. Today, nothing needs to be destroyed, it destroys …
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By admin
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July 21, 2025
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5 min read

Shedding your skin

There is a change that is gradual. It appears as discomfort, a fever. A change that occurs slowly, without us noticing, until one day we discover we are different. A little less ourselves, a …
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By admin
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July 9, 2025
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5 min read

Figuring Worlds

Can a world be figured without first being imagined? Haraway would say no.[1] Figuring worlds doesn’t start with a pencil, nor with the dialogue between eye, mind, and hand. Nor does it begin by …
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By admin
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June 15, 2025
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5 min read

The undesirable in design

"Designing from the undesirableand painting from failure" I suggest not starting a process whose purpose is to create an object of desire.Designing becomes a continuous failure. Every symbolic act fails to represent reality. That would …
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By admin
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February 12, 2025
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2 min read

Mickey’s sacred face and St. Peter’s mouse ears

I have to admit that when I was a child I liked watching TV more than drawing. I even watched TV while I was drawing. Everything I've learnt about this has been the result …
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By admin
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November 23, 2024
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3 min read

Geography of immanence

One of the things that I think is crucial is to discover that in order to understand something in the world, it is not necessary to make the geography of what we see, but …
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By admin
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October 9, 2024
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1 min read

Muscles and nerves

The design is a fragile but useful structure in which all that is liquid settles. It is a map that has already been drawn on, filled with tensions that distort the original idea.The idea …
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By admin
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September 24, 2024
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2 min read
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