Working Notes & Inquiries
A continuous index of critical essays, architectural studies, and monograph drafts exploring publication history and spatial hierarchy.
Mechanics of Negative Space
An inquiry into post-war Swiss book construction, examining how deliberate margins operate as structural anchors rather than passive emptiness across physical spreads.
By treating the page border as a tensile boundary, typographic scale gains architectural clarity without relying on decorative ornament or artificial contrast.
Typesetting proofs inspected at 1:1 scale on drafting tables in Zurich, documenting progressive lead leading variations across ten specimen sheets.
Recent Publications
Longform critical texts on typographic discipline, materiality, and the persistence of tangible documentation in contemporary design practice.
Digital Obsolescence
The Grid as Architecture
Color as Spatial Tension
Why ephemeral software interfaces decay faster than offset printed matter, and how archival preservation requires tactile anchor artifacts.
A historical deconstruction of twelve-column modular systems from late modernism through computational layout engines, focusing on baseline rhythm.
Analyzing tonal restraint across monochrome editorial programs, where singular pigment interventions establish immediate reader orientation and hierarchy.