Hallway filled with thousands of people trying to move like a heard of sheep.

Dusty Times

Illustration of super chill personified truck wheel strolling through the desert.

Toddler sitting on the floor playing with a Hot Wheels track in front of a set of French doors letting in the morning sunlight.

Upward angle of hotel balcony overlooking a lamp post in a parking lot creating

Brett McMillin

I don’t remember a time when I didn’t feel like I do now. I’ve always felt the need to create… something. I was always the one in the…

Chasing The Orb

Camera at a low angle capturing a toddler running towards it among rows of sunflowers. Toddler is a badass wearing a Metallica t-shirt. Mama (also badass) stands in the background watching.

Toddler pointing a point-and-shoot 35mm film camera at the camera taking this photo in the desert in Joshua Tree, CA.

In Praise of Curiosity

For those of you with Config Fomo. Just know that in addition to all the neon colors and cool tote bags, this is also part/most of it.

There’s a sense of peace here. I never really “participated” in Twitter, but I was ON Twitter. And so I felt the chaos. 

It’s nice here.

I don’t know enough about it: what makes it so difficult to make rad third party email and calendar apps for iCloud accounts. I know Apple is always a walled garden, but e-mail and calendar seem like open-enough protocols.

Not a complete picture of the work over the last 6 years, but finally got some sort of case study together for this. 

https://read.cv/brettmcm/dusty-times

Doors, wheels, or multi-disciplinary designers?

more people need to realize you can just do stuff

it's been a while since i've been on here. i've been struggling with finding a good rhythm among work/play, digital/analog... finding some soul points with painting again.

Internet down all day. Todays workstation.

Why haven’t we made a bigger deal about this most important feature that I just discovered?

Generally speaking, how willing do you think users are to migrate to an alternative version of a brand/company’s app just for better UX?

Asking for a friend.

Struggling with the idea that AI will ever be able to thoughtfully pursue accidents—the space where a lot of my most creative ideas come from. Mostly struggling because I’m pretty confident it will be able to, I just can’t understand how. 🤕

Trying to rediscover some design soul points. This experience kept ringing in my head. Maybe it has something to do with it. Either way, I decided to write it down.

Icon mark for Bloop sustainable laundry products

Issue 06 hot off the press…

https://instagram.com/dustytimesmag

What’s the “right” pricing structure for contract apparel design?

A saloon in progress

📍Joshua Tree, CA

I know this is primarily Design Sanctuary, but … any tips on clearing out mutant stalks of dandelion weeds? I’ve got about 400 more of these bad boys in the new backyard and my back is requesting another method…

Agenda web app. Dead simple meeting time cop.

Building and learning.

I wrote about my ongoing journey of embracing being a generalist

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