Hello. Bonjour. Merhaba. Hello.
I'm Oz, a designer of things...
This is my signal space for a noisy mind
I write about the overlooked, the contradictory, and the quietly absurd.
A 2023 US Surgeon General advisory put chronic loneliness alongside smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. The architecture that used to hold strangers together did not collapse. It was redesigned out of the floor plan.
May 1 was a fire and a maypole long before it was a slogan. The eight-hour workday demand asked for three blocks of time. Two got walls around them. The third quietly slipped through the calendar and ended up somewhere else.
Moby Dick gets retitled as 'How One Man's Obsession with a Whale Destroyed His Crew'. The grammar is older than the algorithm, lifted from grocery-aisle paperbacks decades before the recommendation feed showed up. The feed only taught us, slowly, that the templates work.
I build minimal tools and run small experiments.
Minimalist Astro themes for portfolios, blogs, and small brands. Restrained typography, accessible by default, $29 per site.
Fanzine for FC St. Pauli, focused on club history, Kiez culture, and the people who keep the base together.
A plain-language digital security guide for parents and grandparents. Five essential habits, explained clearly, in six languages.
I make spoofs of pop culture, catch life being itself, mix palettes by feel, and cross mediums freely.
