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AS OF MAY 1, 2026

NOW.

What the studio is currently working on, currently reading, and where the booking calendar stands. The Derek Sivers /now-page convention — kept honest by re-dating it monthly.

STATUS · ACCEPTING

Two Q3 brand-and-build engagements remain. Discovery calls week of May 12.

// 01

CURRENT FOCUS

  • Atlantic Records — artist-page system

    Component library + headless CMS rollout

  • Undercover Prodigy — release campaign sprint

    Three drops, one visual system

  • TAGDesigns Journal

    Building the cadence to ship one essay per month

// 02

READING

  • Working in Public

    Nadia Asparouhova

    Re-read for the maintainer-cost frames.

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    Edward Tufte

    Reference shelf — open monthly.

  • How Buildings Learn

    Stewart Brand

    Pacing layers as a brief structure.

// 03

BUILDING

  • ■A studio component library that consumes /system/tokens.json end-to-end.
  • ■An internal LLM-assisted brief reviewer that flags missing definitions of done.
  • ■A weekly demo-reel script that ships every Friday during creation phases.
// 04

NOT DOING

  • ×Hourly engagements (see the journal post).
  • ×Logo-only one-offs — only as part of an identity system.
  • ×Client work that requires being on Slack between 6pm and 9am.
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