Brendan Appe
@happyappe.bsky.social
Updated my personal site. Grateful that this space no longer needs to function as a job-seeking portfolio. Back to being a place for exploring without optimizing for... anything.
Illustration is my 25 year plan: becoming an older, slightly curmudgeonly designer. Hopefully still useful?
Illustration is my 25 year plan: becoming an older, slightly curmudgeonly designer. Hopefully still useful?
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Updated my personal site. Grateful that this space no longer needs to function as a job-seeking portfolio. Back to being a place for exploring without optimizing for... anything.
Illustration is my 25 year plan: becoming an older, slightly curmudgeonly designer. Hopefully still useful?
Illustration is my 25 year plan: becoming an older, slightly curmudgeonly designer. Hopefully still useful?
Taste is a loaded term because it smuggles class, power, and moral judgment into what appears to be a neutral preference. It then presents that judgment as universal, when it's not.
I think the idea that taste is an essential skill and a necessary input into good design is often elitist and quietly anti-humanist. One of my hopes for 2026 is that we begin to reposition this… | Bre...
I think the idea that taste is an essential skill and a necessary input into good design is often elitist and quietly anti-humanist. One of my hopes for 2026 is that we begin to reposition this belief...
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January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Taste is a loaded term because it smuggles class, power, and moral judgment into what appears to be a neutral preference. It then presents that judgment as universal, when it's not.