What I read today May 28
Columbus Wants to Be Known for Public Art. Here's How It Could Do That., Columbus Monthly
How Denison joins Central Ohio peers to ensure ROI on tuition, Columbus Business First
Arent’t Denison’s financials a little of a mess right now?
What I read today May 20
Confident People Do This Before They Say a Single Word, Inc. Magazine
The room starts reading you long before you open your mouth, and those early signals shape everything that follows. Walk in taller. Show up with intention. When you finally speak, make it about them. The words you say will carry so much more weight once you do.
“What aesthetic is this?” Elizabeth Goodspeed on the push to categorise visual culture, It’s Nice That
“To ask this question at all is a sign of a relatively new cultural assumption: that every image belongs to a coherent and nameable category. An image may once have been worth a thousand words. Now it needs just one.”
Reminds me of when Roz categorized my mismatched dinner plates as “cottage” even though they’ve been mismatched for almost 20 years, before there was an aesthetic tied to that.
I recieve workslop repeatably from certain collegues. It makes me not want to work with them, I doubt their discernment and creativity, and frankly makes more work for me. This article’s survey stats reinforce that it’s not just me.
“What’s more, 34% of people who receive workslop are notifying teammates or managers of these incidents, potentially eroding trust between sender and receiver. One third of people (32%) who have received workslop report being less likely to want to work with the sender again in the future.”
When Tattoos Meant Freedom: Jacci Gresham’s art finally gets the respect it deserves, Lux
The Daily Heller: The True Story of Indiana’s DIY Senior Cords, Print Mag
There was a girl at the 4th grade performance at Bellefontaine Elementary with school spirit pants with the mascot name and school hand drawn on them. I was enchanted that senior cords, bode’s reinvention of them, celebrities wear them and now little girls in small towns have pants whose history was inspired by them.
What I read today April 21
Garden Tools, NY Review of Architecture
I’m a former community gardener and organizer and, honestly, I’m glad someone is saying this. The garden wasn’t open to the public until it became slated for development. Green space raises values on adjacent properties by ~7% in NYC.
What I read today April 14
The skylines of the future will be made of wood, Grist
interesting to see this in Grist rather than architecture-related media..
‘Corporate refugee’ breathes new life into historic manufacturer R.B Powers Co., Columbus Business First
THERE’S A BLUE RIBBON MANUFACTURER IN OHIO
Four New Public Art Sculptures Announced for Goodale Park, Columbus Underground
PLAYLISTS
I first noticed Netflix’s One Day Official Playlist on Spotify and GOT CURIOUS.
NASA has an Artemis II wake‑up playlist - there’s a tradition of music on space missions and reflects NASA’s broader effort to make Artemis missions feel tangible and human.
Spotify playlists for brands: more than just tunes, MediaCat
Introducing AUX, Spotify’s First-of-Its-Kind Music Consultancy for Brands, Spotify
Beyond the Blueprint: What P3 Projects Really Teach Design Firms, DLR Group
i just feel like this will come up again, and want to remember this article exists
What I read today April 13
What If Every City Provided Artists With Free Supplies?, hyperallergic
A Parade of Floating Artworks Honors Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands, This is Colossal
New Data Proves Small ‘Maker Businesses’ Can Revitalize Downtowns, Next City
Forget Masterpieces—Show Me Everything, Architect Mag
Trump says the U.S. cannot afford child care in wartime. History says otherwise., MSN
What I read today April 1
Pinterest brings a phone-free festival experience to Coachella, Pinterest
There are events that are phone free and my boyfriend keeps telling me the Masters tournament in Augusta too - are we hearing anything from clients with a similar message of phone free environment? like there's been a trend to do Instagram walls and i was wondering if there is a trend the other direction - like are we too chronically online that we're now designing spaces to unplug (perhaps beyond wellness)
A Generation Homesick for a World They Never Knew, The Next Big Think
What [Gen Z is] abandoning is the idea that social has to be the center of gravity for everything.
Social media didn’t just reduce our time together. It flattened the texture of how we connect. Everything got optimized- the photo, the caption, the timing of the post. And when you optimize human connection, you sand off exactly the parts that make it feel human.
If you have good taste and excellent discernment, this is your time to shine., Design Observer
Two Former USPS Facilities Now Have Massive Rooftop Gardens, Metropolis
“red maples, London plane, and tulip trees that are expected to reach heights and widths of 40 to 50 feet.” — incredibly impressive infastructure/structural engineering to hold up these large trees and all the soil required for them (coming from a
How Scotts Miracle-Gro evolves marketing as gardening goes year-round, Marketing Dive
Scotts Miracle-Gro recently secured the naming rights to the soccer stadium where the Columbus Crew play. — “Playing on real natural grass is a sweet spot for the Scotts brands.” — interesting take and makes way more sense having seen the giant grow lights at the stadium
What I read March 23
"In 2016, there was no way any of us could have charged for a link round-up.”
Frankly, in 2016 there is no way any of us could have charged money for a link round-up! I honestly still think it’s a bit of a weird thing. But now the act of recommendation/curation is a real, undeniable service. So I suppose people are happily paying up for the pleasure of not binge-reading Twitter anymore. It used to be like “please show me cool things!” Now it’s like “I will protect you from the horrors and also endless choice.”
What Happened When a MAHA Activist and a Yale Scientist Worked Together, NY Times
what i read today March 14
An Artist Renounced His Family. They Sued to Acquire His Life’s Work., NYTimes
The Majestic Artistry of the Mardi Gras Indians, NYTimes
Alas, You Will Never Look Like J.F.K. Jr. in Your Chinos, NYTImes
reading the times w my coffee this morning - but none of the world is burning stuff.
What I read today Feb 16
LinkedIn 2026 Playbook, ICYMI with Lia Haberman
College Athletic Departments Are Wooing Recruits With Content Studios, Front Office Sports
What I read today Jan 30, 2026
Schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get ‘bamboo-ready’, The Guardian
replacing mass timber as the thing to talk about?
What I read today Jan 19 2026
Trader Joe's Totes, Articles of Interest
An Interior Designer on Kendall Jenner’s Mountain House - and the Problem With Designing Something to Look Old, The Houes Diaries
We're all just content for ICE, Garbage Day
What I read today Nov 6, 2025
‘I Love It Here’: This Former Mortuary Is Taking New Residents, NYT
comment gold here: It's worth noting that commercial-to-residential conversions work best with buildings built before air-conditioning. This is because AC-allowed commercial buildings to become thicker/further from windows. Residential floorplans with super-deep units and multiple windowless rooms don't work/sell. Older buildings were built for natural light and natural ventilation.