Playground

Recently found lockbooks.net. It's basically an indie bookstore for niche visual inspiration. Everything from computer manual covers to matchbook covers and beyond. First order just landed. Can't wait to dive into these.

Building a small app called "Hoard" where you can browse Magic: The Gathering cards by artist, and find all the cards an artist has painted for the game. MTG got me into design and illustration, so I love the idea of a small app that puts artists first, where we can all browse their work! Still polishing but should be live soon!

I've been obsessing over what typography to use in my portfolio, and it's easy to forget how easy it is now to build micro-tools with AI on top of your codebase where you can test stuff like this. And you can do the same with just about everything: typography, colours, 3D shapes, animations, you name it!

I love spending time with AI tools, creating skills, automating the way I track my day-to-day, using all the MCPs you can think of, and finding niche ways to track my life. Obsidian, second brains, etc.

But I always end up coming back to paper, to bullet journaling or to good old sketching. I'm finding that when I'm properly stuck, the fix is never more time at the desk. It's leaving and drawing. Ideas tend to show up somewhere other than the screen.

Also, hello there! 🙂