check out a tiny sampling of my...
Graphics and illustrations.
Street, road, and 'stroad' illustrations
In 2018, Strong Towns commissioned a set of illustrations depicting the differences between streets, roads, and 'stroads' — the dangerous and ineffective combination of the first two that remains common across the continent. (You've probably got a fair amount of these in your city.)

Stroads are the futon of transportation; they're lousy as both streets and roads. Streets are places — centers of economic and human activity. Roads are links between places. You just can't do both things at once (no matter what your friendly local traffic engineer tells ya).
Stroads are bad for cities' bottom line (they cost far more to maintain and replace than the properties around them will yield in revenue), bad for public safety, and bad for social equity.

But just because cities are stuck with a whole bunch of 'stroads' right now doesn't mean they have to keep them that way forever.

And they definitely should think twice before building any new ones. (Actually, it's fine if they think about it a whole mess of times, so long as they just don't do it!)
Now you know a little something more about transportation, even though that's not really what you came here for. Neat!




When I publish a new podcast episode, I like to create a quick graphic to help draw attention on social media.
Here is but a smattering.
And from the days of my former podcast, Go Cultivate!:
I've also designed some websites.
Here are two that my previous company, Verdunity, is using right now.

(Go on, you can click 'em.)
(Update: You can't click this first one anymore. They changed the site quite a bit. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ )
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