Agalia Tan

Many “designer” influencers barely do, or show, any actual design work at all. Instead, they build credibility by performing proximity to design, like posting brand guidelines from major rebrands or reacting to industry news like a hovering art director. Online, it’s easy to look like an authority on design without making very much of it.

Build, don't babble

“What happens when making an image and becoming one align?”

That’s my problem with most “strategy lines” – they assume uniform interpretation of the abstract.

Why it’s a problem that AI-generated art assumes that data is the best/truest way to understand the world.

It’s the rent you pay to occupy space in my brain until this problem is nailed to your satisfaction. Sometimes I’ll do focused, dedicated work on the task. At other times I’ll let my brain do its subconscious thing, a looser more associative form of thinking. I’ll be thinking about it at some level on every dog walk and every bus journey. Eventuall... See more