
Hello, my name is Rob Dewey. Strategist, educator, and musician
Why Arthur Schopenhauer thought music was the greatest of all artforms, via @bigthink buff.ly/3npyWek
November 5, 2021
September 17, 2021
A biography of the pixel: "The underlying idea – a repackaging of infinity – is subtle and beautiful." buff.ly/2W8F5Sv
August 25, 2021

Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds. buff.ly/2VH8Ucw pic.twitter.com/XxM9DfUqPr
August 10, 2021
Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing. buff.ly/3jZP3Ps
July 8, 2021
Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers buff.ly/3wge5MV
July 2, 2021
"The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
June 12, 2021
Over 100 adult animated series are currently in various stages of development and production. buff.ly/3wZ0pqq
June 9, 2021

The Microwave Economy buff.ly/2NVj9pI pic.twitter.com/h9EA0nlIpB
May 29, 2021
May 19, 2021

April 19, 2021

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation, via @lithub buff.ly/39Q92KL pic.twitter.com/PcFSBgrIJm
April 14, 2021

Speech to birdsong conversion. buff.ly/3m5ZrEx pic.twitter.com/QnpluZS0OK
April 1, 2021
March 29, 2021
Computers and creativity: To foster optimal human innovation, digital creative tools need to be interoperable, mold… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
March 25, 2021
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea buff.ly/2Oi9rxM
March 4, 2021
Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides #hci buff.ly/3trpOYF
February 5, 2021
GM changes brand logo to highlight EV future #yikes buff.ly/3or9g0g
January 8, 2021
December 10, 2020
“Complexity is like energy. It cannot be created or destroyed, only moved somewhere else.” #ux fs.blog/2020/10/why-li…
December 8, 2020

The lost PBS animations of Herb Lubalin. #PBS #typography lubalin100.com/day-18 pic.twitter.com/o3xJ50slvG
October 31, 2020

A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation buff.ly/2SRwQ8c pic.twitter.com/Y9tKWau8kw
October 13, 2020
“It may be that we are already surrounded by AIs but have no idea that they exist. Their beingness is invisible to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
October 9, 2020

Happy Birthday, PBS. Please Save Us. buff.ly/2EG76rQ pic.twitter.com/z8eOCgQp2K
September 28, 2020
Writing for snobs. buff.ly/2RtohzR
September 15, 2020

“Visual experimentation can create meaning.” buff.ly/2Zz5aZu pic.twitter.com/Ndr55Muljf
September 13, 2020
Open Source Everything buff.ly/330UljB
September 4, 2020

August 10, 2020

How tech companies understand “clarity” reveals what they assume about users. #ux buff.ly/2ZzaEUk pic.twitter.com/JlGqkEYHE9
July 20, 2020
Is the sublime a hopelessly old-fashioned Euro-Romantic ideal? buff.ly/3h07WgH
July 17, 2020
COVID-19 and The Attention Economy buff.ly/3gp1Cip
July 3, 2020
What’s New in macOS - Human Interface Guidelines buff.ly/2YZ27IP
June 23, 2020
June 18, 2020

May 14, 2020

A short history of color theory. buff.ly/3dGEEBZ pic.twitter.com/KexSacjkEz
May 14, 2020
“Electronic music—a synthesis of technological, scientific, and aesthetic discourses—was the ultimate Cold War inno… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
May 1, 2020
“As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
April 24, 2020
Letterform Archive has opened its well-structured online archive of nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 images to everyo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
April 14, 2020

The End of the Experience Economy? buff.ly/39oZfs2 pic.twitter.com/86T8Z2XPF9
April 13, 2020

The Next Frontier in Storytelling Universes and the Never-Ending Desire for More buff.ly/2J6ngJC pic.twitter.com/3la5NIEYoW
March 23, 2020
Surprise: Six out of ten senior European marketers experienced a higher level of creativity after their business mo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
March 11, 2020
Tone fields larger than stars. @disquiet buff.ly/2TmDxzW
March 3, 2020
Google Fonts Analytics #typography buff.ly/2GfqWKe
February 19, 2020
The case for digital public infrastructure, harnessing past successes in public broadcasting to build community-ori… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
February 6, 2020
"The printing press made individual books more uniform and more numerous, but it also put the idea of universal tru… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
January 29, 2020
10 team exercises to enhance divergent thinking and generate more/better ideas, via @IDEOU: buff.ly/2QXyBRf
January 23, 2020
The paradox at the heart of A/B testing: "It's useful in some scenarios, but many times the costs outweigh the bene… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
January 22, 2020
The role that #Flash and the #creative ambitions of designers played in expanding the open web. buff.ly/2RsuGdR
January 22, 2020
Rob connects insight, ideas and performance to create understanding and deep engagement. He was named a Fellow of the American Center for Design in 1995 and serves on the adjunct faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Specialties: creative research, creative strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, experience strategy, communications planning, content development, team management, process development