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Reza Abedini

Spent the afternoon reviewing graphic designers and came across Reza Abedini. I love his high contrast use of background elements mixed with typography.

Articles of inspiration

As inspiration for Cal Poly Pomona’s cybersecurity event

Thumb print with a meta data overlay, mixing analog identity and digital identity.
A photograph of a person, with meta data, Think of CCTV tracking or a venue that uses photos and video for event ticketing. A person has this massive amount of information jammed over their actual image making it nearly impossible to read but somehow usable information for surveillance technologies. Below is a 5 minute draft.

quick pen sketch of a person covered with metadata. — A pen sketch of a person covered with metadata.

JAWS

A chalkboard illustration from the JAWS exhibit @ The Academy Museum.

Reflections on a year of using ClassicPress

Last December, I migrated from WordPress to ClassicPress. Matt Mullenweg was shattering the once vibrant community with every post and interview, and at the peak it seemed his noisy irrelevant rants and gatekeeping by withholding services from people he disagreed with arrived almost daily.

ClassicPress offers an alternative for projects that don’t benefit from from full-site-editing and the block editor. ClassicPress launched in August of 2018, with the intention of continuing a lightweight content management experience predictable for content contributors, site maintainers and visitors.

Around this time I was also craving a simple platform for blogging and communicating my thoughts, free of gimmicks and feature bloat. I could just post a status update or blog post and move on with my day.

Happily my only setback was not informing my web hosting environment that I had migrated to WordPress, this led to a conflict when cPanel forced an unwanted upgrade back to WordPress. Thankfully An Honest Host, has great customer service and we worked through restoring from a recent backup and modified my install for ClassicPress preventing the problem in the future. Read the migration documentation and get ahead of any possible conflicts.