The Desk

— Sasha is designing things.

He is climbing mountains and writing essays

He publishes twice a week. To follow along behind the scenes, subscribe below.

Essays

An Invitation, a Secret Society

I’d like to invite you to join me in newsletter-dom. This will not be your average newsletter. It will be about creative process and exper

Finding Fuji

Falling into and out of love with the Fujifilm X-T1

How to Care in a Buttonless World

Mechanical controls, fake loops and digital ambiguity in the era of touch screens

The Humble Micro-interaction

When we talk of software, we fetishize big ideas. but what of the humble micro-interaction?

The Superman

Extreme sports and the tyranny of comfort

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Night Letters

Holy Days

Camels are strange beasts, and they have an alarming habit of napping to pass time in the heat of the afternoon. To a casual observer, a nap

Art, Elephants, a Houseboat Basement

The basement of the houseboat is dark, almost dingy. Like a proper dive. And like a proper dive, the bar serves only watered-down pints with

Crawlpappies

Night readers, Hi again. It’s me, Sasha. I’m covered in chocolate stains, tomato paste, and crayfish juice. My whites, most days mottled wi

Regulating UFOs, French Food, Fashion Week

Parisians, I have discovered, know what to do with their hair. It is tucked behind their ears, perfectly combed, tied into a bun, with just

Yes chef

Yes chef. Or more specifically, “Oui, chef.” This is how our group of thirty uniformed-clad students is to acknowledge orders and question

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