An Equestrian Conflagration
Here’s a new graphic exploration ahead of the Lunar New Year tomorrow, which also happens to be my 27th birthday. Perhaps someone can let me know if there’s significance to the two dates coinciding this year but if these last few weeks are any indication, it feels like I’m in for a brilliant 365.
Heads Up! This Means Nothing.
AEM presents Tubular One, its latest feat of anachrofuturistic futile engineering. A heads-up display exploration that offers no real meaning beyond its surface level pretensions. Real, after all, is only relative.
The Eleventh Hour
I originally planned this to be a sort of last minute year-ender recap piece to cap 2025, but as is generally the case with my process, it blew far past that and ultimately blossomed into something more of an anachro-futuristic graphic abstraction. Had a lot of fun working on this one and I think it shows.
Plus the fact that I managed to sketch a technical drawing, build it in CAD and then actually sit with Cinema4D long enough to get a decent render out bodes quite well for the rest of 2026. We’re just 7 days in, and that’s already one more 3D project than I managed to complete from last year’s zero.
Lots still to explore, but for now, tell me how this one finds you.
Too Much Is Never Enough, But I Will Be
Today’s piece was spurred by some thoughts on the pursuit of progress and self-mastery, but mainly a mental note to avoid the pitfalls of an endless hunger for more. Life hardly feels better than in those moments when you’re trained on a single objective, working steadily towards that goal. Our mind starts to revel in all the great rewards that arrival will bring.
But the reality? Arrival doesn’t even exist, not truly. Reaching that target never grants the rest we imagine. In fact, the summit becomes another base, and the finish another start. The chase somehow always folds back into itself, beginning anew. Contentment is a fantasy.
What anchors us is perspective, and the recognition of all the steps already taken and the ground we’ve covered. That progress is real, even if completion is only an illusion illusion. I take comfort in the fact that even if the horizon keeps moving, I am constant and that is enough.
Crescendo
A new offering. Tell me how it finds you.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the path through and out of a design rut rarely unfolds as I expect it to. Today’s hiatus ender proved to be no different. A half-formed Houdini cover from November 2023 (quickly sketched and soon after abandoned) somehow shifted shape into this drifting jellyfish abstraction over the last twenty-four hours. And after five months of unfinished starts, I’ll take the win.
There’s more to come, but for now, meet Krato the Jellyfish.
26 For 26
Turned 26 today, so here’s a collection of twenty-six of my favourite pieces I’ve created over the years (2020-2025). With each year brings new insights so I readily welcome the inevitable growth and exploration from this next 365.
Do you have a favourite? 📹
Anatomy of a Design: How I Made This ‘Keep Driving’ Poster 🎞
This piece was one of the early breakthroughs I made in my longstanding quest to marry bitmaps and dithering with minimalist design and it also happened to birth a series I imagine I’ll revisit sometime soon. Never a boring day in the dithering realm, eh? 👁️
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