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Now · Updated 2026-05-11

What I'm focused on right now.

This is a /now page. What I'm focused on right now, written for the present and updated when the present moves on.

Last updated May 11, 2026.

Working

A new website and a fresh round of campaigns for That Particular Breed. Hands-on across strategy, brand, and the build itself.

This site is the other half. The last two weeks rebuilt it from a placeholder into a real portfolio: a dozen new case studies, every existing one refreshed, the writing scrubbed of everything that sounded like a corporate template, and a back-of-house pass on analytics, session recording, and admin tools so I can keep editing without leaving my browser.

Making

Everything Speaks, a new every-other-week letter. Eleven sections per issue: a literary opener, what I'm working on, one rule of being a designer pulled from a growing list, a date in design history, a designer worth knowing, sites worth seeing, the studio update, a designer provocation, useful music straight from my Spotify, the Broadway Oracle, and an Elder Futhark rune. Issue Zero is up; Issue One lands at the end of the month.

Howrey Script went from a one-page case study to a full typeface microsite this week. Live type tester, full glyph grid, auto-cycling specimens, scrolling marquees. Free under the SIL Open Font License. Download it and make something.

The Broadway Oracle deck, 100 cards pairing a Broadway musical with a piece of advice drawn from the show, is now fully integrated into the site and feeds the newsletter's Oracle section.

There are usually more experiments alive on the side. The experiments index is where they land.

Listening

A live look at what's been on, pulled from Spotify under this paragraph. If a song is playing right now, you'll see it. Otherwise you'll see the last thing I heard.

Last listened to · 5 hours ago

Distance

Emily King

Looking

Actively looking for the next full-time role. Senior or principal design leadership, ideally somewhere I can both ship and shape the team. The contact page has the full list of what I'm open to.

Available for

  • Full-time design leadership roles (first priority)
  • Fractional design leadership engagements
  • Advisory work with founders building design orgs
  • Select project work where the brief is real and the stakes are interesting
  • Speaking and teaching

If any of those sound right, let's talk.