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Honoring memory, provenance and safeguarding design history and building relationships from structural blindness since 1999. Evidence-based, covenantal work in exile. Resisting distortion. TIME Invention of the Year

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Aug 10

⚠️Crisis Communications: Design Educators in Exile, the Forgotten Architects of Civic Stability

The Infantilisation of Design Educators & how we can Recover Societal Levers for Civic Stability
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Design Educators in Exile: The Forgotten Architects of Civic Stability

⚠️ Crisis Communications: The Infantilisation of Design Educators and how we can Recover Societal Levers for Civic Stability

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 23

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 22

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 21

pink grapefruit by karen kasper

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 21

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 20

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 19

A Royal Proclamation on the Full Nature of Order,

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 18

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 17

🎓Doctor of Arts, Design & Applied Sciences

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 17

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is who provides aesthetic protection to design managers who get paid in photoshop seats instead of cash.

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 16

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sasaki Foundation Design Grants — community design + architecture (Boston).

Prince Claus Fund Seed Award — supports cultural/artistic practice internationally.

ArtPrize Artist Seed Grants — smaller but good for design-oriented creative work.

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 15

SOSV — active deep-tech fund; fits if design overlaps hardware/experimental tech.

OpenVC — directory of seed investors; good for targeting design-friendly VCs.

Blackbird Ventures (AU/NZ) — seed + early stage; design-adjacent startups.

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 15

Slow Ventures — $60M seed fund for creators (digital, design-driven, creator-economy).

Seedtable Raise — list of active product design investors worldwide.

Pear VC — early-stage, pre-seed/seed, open to strong design/UX projects.

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 15

These are the seed funds that protect real designers like me from enemies of cultural work who conduct political hospitalizations and when they can't conduct political hospitalizations they try to invert the narrative to a criminal one.

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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 14

Footnote: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This is not “all rights reserved.” It permits non-commercial sharing with attribution but prohibits derivative works and commercial use.

Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity) @wtcarchive.bsky.social · Sep 14

Statement on the Curators of Amnesia and the Intended Effect on the Attacks on the World Trade Center,