Diego A. Quinde

I found a postcard photograph titled "Tudia de Loja, Ecuador" (c. 1935–1955, Fototecnia Stein, Quito) in the Rijksmuseum's public-domain collection. My grandparents are from Loja, so I imagined the life of this young woman and a "White Nights"-style love story set in an Andean...

I thought the next step would be better software.

I started working with a client in a very niche professional-products sector, first as a technical writer. My background with Chinese documents, test reports, photos and files that need basic electrical knowledge was what they...

In primary school, they asked us to stop writing in cursive and switch to print. They called it standardization. They said it would kill creativity. That's not exactly what happened, but cursive was something else: more expression, more of your own hand. Print was uniform, the...

Placing hundreds of quotes inside a shape by hand takes days.

So I wrote a small tool: it reads a spreadsheet, measures the width of every band in an Illustrator file, and fits each quote inside its band. Font size follows the band, nothing crosses the edges, nothing overlaps.

The...