Aidan Quinlan is a designer who also teaches “A Handmade Web.”

The year is 2250. The colony on the Moon is divided into debaucherous fascists and an underclass of mutants born without genitals. Follow Frank and Gerry, two mutant bros. By day, they’re forced to salvage through the remains of a porn-filled shuttle that crashed on the Moon’s dark side. By night, they plot their revenge.

Becca Abbe is a designer based in New York whose practice Cdxs, LLC focuses on typesetting, branding, programming, print, and digital.

It’s hard to describe Bill Wurtz despite the abundance of material available on his website. Some days, i’m crazy and it’s raining. On others, the history of the entire world, i guess can be told in under 20 minutes.

Digital Materiality in the Age of Design Systems Parsons Communication Design Symposium In an increasingly homogenized interaction design landscape, how can we continue to craft unique digital experiences? As designers, how do we retain agency and ownership over a process which has become progressively atomized? The past several years have seen the rise of design systems and frameworks along with toolchains and build processes which have dramatically expanded the complexities of designing and developing for screen. Design and engineering roles have splintered and specialized, with large teams becoming the norm for producing digital artifacts at any scale. The net result has been a profusion ...

Emma Rae Norton is interested in the computer mouse and coding slowly by hand.

Flight Simulator is an ode to airplane mode. It celebrates the best part of air travel: peaceful solitude. Choose a destination, enable airplane mode, and enjoy.

More than ever, creative people find their attention pulled in many directions by digital and networked technologies. Staying up-to-date and responsive to so many forms of online communication often feels mandatory in order to keep working. But, it can be both exhausting and dispiriting to build a creative practice while “extremely online.” With this compilation of essays produced in collaboration with Are.na, the platform for connecting ideas, we asked artists to share their approaches to using the internet more mindfully and creatively.

Korede Aderele is a software engineer, writer, and student.

Larissa Pham is a writer and artist. She writes and animates poems through her project Poem Club.

Marie Otsuka is a designer working around tools and methods for making. She designed and developed the solar powered version of the Low-Tech Magazine website.