seeing. thinking. making.
An independent publication about human-machine collaboration: the methods, decisions and conditions behind creative work with AI.
project index.
work
Released projects, publications and public experiments.
- 01
attention-worthy
A forthcoming project about what earns attention and what deserves to keep it.
- 02
InternetVCR
Download video from YouTube and the Wayback Machine.
- 03
Print Ephemera
A curated archive of print-era advertising, organised for close looking rather than rapid consumption.
- 04
Zineware
A publishing experiment that treats software as a small press: useful, editioned and made to circulate.
- 05
Insert WordArt
A browser tool for making the loud, warped type that disappeared with early desktop software.
- 06
Ways of Making
A field guide to the small moves that help creative work leave the head and enter the world.
- 07
Artificial Milieu
Notes from an environment where generated images, synthetic voices and human choices share the same weather.
tools
A prompt builder and constraint deck for directing creative work.
- 01
Product Requirements Document
Define the problem, intended user, evidence and conditions for success before a feature list takes over.
- 02
Creative Brief
Translate a defined project into visual, structural and technical decisions an AI builder can follow.
- 03
Milieu
A pre-built Obsidian vault that names, dates and files daily writing automatically.
- 04
Key Prompt Indicator
Search, read and copy 291 practical prompt templates by role and task.
- 05
Midjourney Creative Director
Turn a scene, camera decision and intended format into a structured Midjourney v7 prompt.
- 06
Oblique Strategies
Draw one of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's prompts when a working problem has resisted direct attack.
notes
Observations about tools, methods and judgement.
- 01
What is Are.na?
A plain guide to the member-supported platform for collecting and connecting ideas, and why an ad-free, algorithm-free corner of the internet matters more now that AI is everywhere else.
- 02
What is Cosmos?
A plain guide to the image app for designers and visual researchers, and why working creatives have started moving their reference collections off Pinterest and Instagram.
- 03
What is Obsidian?
A plain guide to the note-taking app that is just a folder, and why a folder of plain text outlasts every cloud-based note app.
- 04
Writing Effective Prompts
A practical guide to giving AI assistants a role, task, context and output format, then improving the result through iteration.