I’ve been drifting in and out of bouts of apathy and depression having lost a great friend of mine earlier this month. To get me through the mourning, I thought I’d publicly remind and rededicate myself to the ideals of and purpose of FRAKTURE when I’ve been posting less and the spirit of this brand feels like it’s waning:

I don’t write tutorials, offer design news or generally care about the local or national politics of the design world. I don’t write about the design work I’m doing for non-disclosure reasons. I am not influential nor am I outgoing. I therefore do not actively participate in the design community (fuck the AIGA). I like to think of myself as a rogue, renegade designer who’s changing the world in his own subtle way.

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Me and Ben Fiorina at Kennywood, June 1997

“There is an end
Of all things that thou seest! There is an end
Of Wrong and Death and Hell! When the long wear
Of Time and Suffering has effaced the stain
Ingrown upon the soul, and the cleansed spirit,
Long ages floating on the wandering winds
Or rolling deeps of Space, renews itself
And doth regain its dwelling, and, once more
Blent with the general order, floats anew
Upon the stream of Things, and comes at length,
After new deaths, to that dim waiting-place
Thou next shalt see, and with the justified
White souls awaits the End ; or, snatched at once,
If Fate so will, to the pure sphere itself,
Lives and is blest, and works the Eternal Work
Whose name and end is Love ! There is an end
Of Wrong and Death and Hell!

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