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digital gardens for the remarkably curious

everything you gather,beside everything you make.

save what sparks you — articles, images, quotes, fleeting thoughts. when you sit down to create, all of it is right there beside you.

start your garden
Mint green cover of Why Materials Matter by Seetal Solanki
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what app do you guys use to create context for ai? e.g. where do you share your links to articles you want to remember, thoughtful/fun images or memes, things you want to read, things you want to watch (youtube vids, tiktok’s, reels), things you want to listen to…

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A heart-shaped cloud in a blue sky between apartment buildings

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,” [Hajime] said. “It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

South of the Border, West of the Sun

apple books

A Community
is a Garden

Tools for Artists, Communities, and Institutions

PDF · 24 pages

a-community-is-a-garden.pdf

files

01 · gather

Capture anything, from anywhere

instagram, youtube, substack, google map, twitter, a thought typed at a red light. From your open tabs, your app, your notes — it all lands in Material.

02 · organize

a moodboard, a reading list, a design brief — a space for every project, trip, and obsession

organize it your way — or let AI do it for you.

wearing statement

A phone snapshot of a full-length fit — black knit cardigan over olive trousers
A grey suede belt with a hammered silver circular buckle
An all-black draped outfit with a soft leather tote, shot in a bright studio
A washed-grey wrap skirt with a long-strapped leather crossbody bag
A soft black leather shoulder tote hanging on a wooden peg against a pale wall
A pair of black buckled peep-toe heels on a white sheet

books to read

Embossed white cover of The Art of Noticing with two blue eyes

The Art of Noticing

Rob Walker

Vivid orange sunset cover of The Cloud Collector's Handbook

The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Weathered teal cover of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

A blue abstract mountain painting on the cover of a Chinese memoir

關於那座山的一切

劉宸君

Dark green cover of The Vision Machine by Paul Virilio

The Vision Machine

Paul Virilio

A blue map-patterned book cover held up on an escalator

design material

The Marginalian

A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today

A century of concrete poems and keystroke portraits, drawn from Barrie Tullett’s anthology of art made on the machine.

by Maria Popova

themarginalian.org

A grey mid-century portable typewriter with a typed page in the platen

client profile — ichigo

a japanese-inspired coffee shop with an industrial feeling — concrete and warm wood, raw steel, hand-set type on the menu.

note

A vintage sea-green sewing machine on a worn wooden base

july trip to nyc

places

the Met roof · Washington Sq at dusk · Roosevelt Island tram · the Cloisters

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A towering pastrami sandwich at Katz's Deli with a plate of pickles behind it

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yothatssobomb The bombest Pastrami Sandwich in NY! 💣🥪

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lunch day 2 →

Pace Gallery

540 W 25th

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David Zwirner

537 W 20th

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Gagosian

555 W 24th

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everything for the trip lives here

03 · make

Make with all of it beside you

Write an essay. Make a film. Design a brand. Build a product. Research a topic. Plan a trip.

Follow a question until it becomes something real.

04 · remember

Material remembers and grows with you

Search, resurface, reconnect.

remind yourself when capturing

weekly recap

This week in Material

Aug 7

Circling an idea

three notes on noticing — maybe a thread.

Newly relevant

an old capture, now part of design material.

A space forming?

four loose saves that keep showing up together.

make a space

reminders & resurfacing

Material2m ago

The article you just saved echoes The Art of Noticing in your books to read. Revisit it?

Materialnow

Tonight, like you asked — the Leather Carryall Tote you saved to buy.

use all your materials in ChatGPT and Claude

A person sitting alone on a grassy headland, looking out over a pale sea

your garden is waiting for its first seed.

start your garden