hyalineskies

American popular culture has an insatiable taste for trendiness, with the end result being nothing more than a petty aesthetic takeaway of something that originally had true meaning. Perhaps social media is the cure for our disease, but in the end, American pluralism feels increasingly like a façade for an old populist philosophy.

After reading an interview with a typeface designer on the design of entirely functional sans-serifs, I realised that the three is of typeface design are no different than the things we should be thinking about when developing new web applications from scratch; however, there’s a usability caveat in web application design that complicates things.

A trip back to Ann Arbor and my alma mater set things straight again. The Silicon Valley exuberance left me exhausted, jaded and superficial. After the failure of hyalineskies 8 and the all-devouring power of consumer culture, I’m actually back for good this time with a redesign, a philosophy and the resurgence of an everlasting vendetta.

After a two-month hiatus — the first in hyalineskies history — I’ve moved across the United States, took a job as a designer at Facebook, and redesigned hyalineskies to its eighth version. In the process, I’ve learned a lot of things about development, city life and culture. I’ve also found responsibility that I’ve never had before.

hyalineskies is currently in its chrysalis as it evolves into the next version of this site, Nightingale. If things go down or seem a little off this week, please forgive the downtime. When things are normal again, expect some seriously awesome stuff. I hope.