The road to clarity.

“The Road to Clarity” reminds me of the assignment from The Cheese Monkeys where the students of Introduction to Graphic Design have to hitchhike on a snowy day—it’s a flash marketing, personal branding/image management, and hand-lettering exercise with life-and-death overtones. And if you don’t appreciate the article, you’ll probably never understand the scope of my ambition (or fathom the true depths of my depression at its unintended thwarting). It’s a 4500-word parallel to my professional profile: aesthetics, psychology, history, geometry, the primacy of text, glyphs as polygons, words as constructions, the value of slow and imperceptible processes, the unheralded influence of Helmut Krone, design as social activism, quixotic frustration with bureaucracy, battles against halation, and the open road.