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Sam Furness, cultural producer, experience designer, and founder of Channel Twelve, hates the word hobby.

“‘Hobby’ implies that it’s an activity that doesn’t go anywhere. Try telling that to somebody who works a 9 to 5 soulless job, but they have an art studio in their spare bedr...


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Solar Complex
Oil on canvas
30 x 17 inches
2025

An Icarus Complex is a psychiatric classification characterized by extreme ambition, high-risk behavior, and recklessness. To be Icarian is to be excessively ambitious. Foolhardy. Possibly (probably) to some extent delusional.

Once upon a time, this was called a Solar Complex. (Which sound...


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Sam Furness, cultural producer, experience designer, and founder of Channel Twelve, hates the word hobby.

“‘Hobby’ implies that it’s an activity that doesn’t go anywhere. Try telling that to somebody who works a 9 to 5 soulless job, but they have an art studio in their spare bedr...


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As someone guiding design leaders and their teams through this rapidly changing era of AI and automation, it’s my responsibility to understand their vulnerabilities and the ways they can get ahead. To gain this insight, I spoke to friends and colleagues who are in operations, in finance, C-suite, and management consultants.

What emerged was an understanding that rig...


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“I love gossip,” says Deborah Khodanovich, MFA student at the Rhode Island School of Design and creator of her very own gossip-inspired typeface. She took Gutenberg’s first lead type font, Textura, and subverted its authoritative,


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