Frank Chimero

Two and a half years ago, I came away from Kinference 2023 disappointed that more of my peers weren’t as put off as I was by the current state of tech’s dominant preoccupations. My experience wasn’t much different this time, except that in the intervening years, Web3 enthusiasm has fashionably given way to AI enthusiasm. This isn’t to say all the speakers were doing PR for LLMs, and among those intermittently expressing guarded misgivings, Frank… See more →

A great read from @frank_chimero on evaluating typefaces. frankchimero.com/blog/2020/look…

The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy

Over the years, C.K.’s comedy evolved, as any comic’s will, but at their best and most well known, his jokes were about interrogating himself as a means of interrogating American culture. As C.K. shuffled uncomfortably on stages and sets, clad in rumpled T-shirts and slouchy dad jeans, he served as his own act’s useful idiot: C.K., author and character at once, played the privileged guy… See more →

The bittersweet symphony of favoriting a @frank_chimero tweet twitter.com/frank_chimero/…

Smart watches have the potential to “switch the media paradigm from an endless stream to a concentrated dispatch.” niemanlab.org/2019/01/leave-…

Hello, dear reader!

April is gone, but its links remain.

I’ve been obsessed with my current personal project lately (more on that soon), so apart from a handful of very brief movie reviews, I didn’t do much writing in April, though the web designers in the audience might want to take a look at my notes from last week’s Generate conference.

The links this go-round include some gems for Prince fans on the second anniversary of… See more →

The sun is out and @frank_chimero has a beautiful new site. Pretty good Thursday so far. frankchimero.com

Hello dear reader!

February is gone, but its links remain.

My site was pretty quiet in February, up until yesterday when I published the final post in a series about the process behind my redesign. This one is about color, and the recent revelations I’ve had about how to work with it.

This month’s links have the usual range of topics, with the highlight for me being a treasure trove of interviews and demos on… See more →

“It’s like designing a house so it’s easy to build, instead of setting up cranes typically used for skyscrapers.” frankchimero.com/writing/everyt…

A haiku tribute to @frank_chimero tweets:

pithy, delightful
I should show this to my friends
hey, where did it go twitter.com/frank_chimero/…

I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government.

I worry that this new office will be more of the same: a vanity project, one that exists primarily to put Kushner in the same room with people he admires whom he wouldn’t have had access to before, glossing government agencies in the process with a thin veneer of what appears to be capitalism but is really just nihilistic cost-cutting designed to project… See more →

You guys, @fchimero launched a new portfolio. In addition to housing stunning work, it is really, really well executed. frankchimero.com/work/

Thoughts about streaming music from @elliotjaystocks (elliotjaystocks.com/blog/music-col…) and @fchimero (frankchimero.com/blog/2012/10/s…). Added my 2¢ to the former.

A recreation of how I presume @fchimero’s flight into NYC this morning went: yfrog.com/h4obbncj

The spread for activities 8 and 9 (image 5 of 9) completely kills me.

Treat your eyes to lostworldsfairs.com, courtesy of @jasonsantamaria, @fchimero, @TrentWalton, @weightshift, and @davatron5000.