by Edward | Oct 27, 2025 | Culture, Deep Dive, Design, Development, Errata, Visual Arts
In our last post we discussed the Collapse and how climate and economic fluctuations drove the people into a state of emergency. We talked a bit about who responded to that state, and why it was corporations, and not governments, who ultimately found authority in the...
by Edward | Oct 4, 2025 | Culture, Design, Development, Errata, Overviews, Visual Arts
The Bygone Era is the one that feels closest to home. Distance shrank, pipes and rails multiplied, and data smoothed the work until most people forgot what it took to keep things running. Heavy industry, global supply, big civic plants, quiet control rooms on a...
by Edward | Sep 29, 2025 | Culture, Deep Dive, Design, Development, Errata, Indigenous, Visual Arts
One group that will be often talked about, but seldom seen in town, are the Dryrunners. They are a mobile people organized around Runs, which are multi-wahka caravans that move from the Great Dust Basin to the Highlands on routes that are unpredictable to outsiders.....
by Edward | May 27, 2025 | Branding, Culture, Development
When I started designing the identity for Tumeke, I didn’t open Illustrator. I didn’t start with fonts or logos. I started with alot of questions. I grew up in the United States, not in Aotearoa. I never set foot on a marae until I was 31. That never stopped me from...
