Aresluna

Writing

• Shift happens
  A book about the 150 years of keyboards and typing 2017–2023
• The hardest working font in Manhattan
  A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today. 2025
• A hacker’s guide to bending the universe
  If you’re going to conquer the world, you can’t let a broken CRT monitor stand in your way. 2016
• In the footsteps of Robert Moses
  Roadtripping across the bridges, highways, and parks of America’s most controversial urban planner 2012
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Talks

• In defense of an old pixel
  An appreciation and investigation of pixel fonts Config, 2024 30 minutes
• Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer
  A tour of early user interfaces one never hears about, from Charles Babbage’s 19th-century Difference Engine, to an ancient PC with an attached mouse and no idea what to do with it Webstock, 2017 30 minutes
• I pressed Command+B. You wouldn’t believe what happened next
  Whenever you press Command+B in Figma, what happens is a choreography of events of surprising complexity. It’s a collision of two worlds – keyboard shortcuts and typography – each one with more depth and history than we would ideally like. Config, 2020 20 minutes
• The secrets of Google Pac-Man
  A fun game show that talks about the original Pac-Man and its Google reincarnation Google I/O, 2011 1¼ hours
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Creative projects

• Four laps
  A looping video about looping videos 2021
• Alternatywy 4
  I edited, translated, and subtitled the 1980s Polish TV show. 2015
• One hundred and thirty-seven seconds
  I translated Stanisław Lem’s sci-fi story from Polish into English. 2015

Photo essays

• The best laid tracks
  On ghost stations in San Francisco 2018
• Type in your hand
  A subjective guide through fascinating places in California where you can experience typography without pixels 2015
• Artificial, pt. 3
  The geometric allure of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center 2014
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