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Print Magazine—Stewart Smith’s quiet critiques

Print Magazine has uploaded their brief profile of me here: Unmooring—Stewart Smith’s quiet critiques. Penned by writer and musician Justin Sullivan, the article first appeared in Print Magazine’s Identity Issue (Volume 65.5, October 2011, page 85). This special issue of Print was guest designed and coedited by the superb Dutch design studio Metahaven who also contributed several articles on the theme of Identity. —Stewart

AIGA Design Envy

I’ve just wrapped up my week as a guest curator on AIGA’s Design Envy blog. It’s been a fun week. Here’s a list of of the posts with links:

1. Paper.js: Juerg Lehni and Jonathan Puckey
2. Charlotte Taylor’s Spring / Summer 2012 Lookbook Film: HarrimanSteel
3. The Cat Scan: Jonny
4. Portal—No Escape: Dan Trachtenberg
5. Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies: Gallant Lab
—Stewart

Chatttr—come chat and draw

For a few months now we’ve been kicking around a hobby project called Chatttr—located at http://chatttr.com. It’s a free-for-all chat room that allows users to create and share simple line drawings. But that’s just the surface of Chatttr. From the foundation upward we built Chatttr as an experiment in anti-social networking. What happens if there are no accounts? No login? What if multiple people can have the same username? Or change their username between each post? What if there’s no permanent archive? More after the jump…