What Art Does
Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality. It is a verb, not a noun. What it does is create a new experience, a different way of seeing the world.
The Shape of Design
Design is a field of connections—it creates links between things that were previously unconnected. The work is a response to an inquiry.
Meteora
The album that defined a generation. Raw emotion meets precision engineering—nu-metal at its most vulnerable and powerful.
Random Access Memories
A love letter to disco, studio craft, and the future we thought we’d get—glossy, human, and endlessly replayable.
Interdependence
Steve Jobs emailing himself a thought on admiration for our “species, living and dead.” Source.
Tulip House Coffee Roasters
Down in LA. Instagram.
Feather
Light, warm, and endlessly replayable—one of those tracks that makes the world feel a little kinder.
Oblique Strategies
Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas. A card-based method for promoting creativity, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
The Dark Side of the Moon
A prism dispersing light into a spectrum—simple, iconic, eternal. The cover that taught me album art could be fine art.
Music for Airports 1/1
The piece that invented ambient music. Designed to induce calm and space to think.
Koyaanisqatsi
Life out of balance. A wordless documentary that sees humanity through time-lapse eyes, scored by Philip Glass.
Four Quartets
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Rothko Chapel
Fourteen black paintings in an octagonal room. A place for silence and contemplation. Art as sacred space.
Ico
A boy and a girl, escaping a castle. No HUD, no tutorials—just hand-holding and trust. Games as poetry.
Rain Room
Walk through falling water without getting wet. Technology that responds to presence, creating impossible experiences.
The Secret of Life
This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.