this one is for fans of: - the colour green - the bear (tv show, not the animal) - slice-of-life storytelling - text links thank you @andy + team for the writing tab. the piece wouldn't be the same without the carousels 💚 read.cv/joannelam/dial…
finally ready to share this case study (reflection? deconstructed essay? dream team love letter?) for a short doc i wrote and directed a few years ago. the project is still dear to my heart. hope it shows in the writing <3 read.cv/joannelam/apor…
"in an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them." are.na/blog/here-for-t…
solstice to solstice felt like a year unto itself... a lifetime's worth of undoings and relearnings and realizations and tryings in spite of fear. here's to more of that in the new year. may 2024 be kind to you all 🫶

"because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really."

had an entire conversation with a stranger through google translate today. there's something magical about knowing what's being said, even if awkwardly translated, then interpreting the expression through body language. humans are the best when striving to understand another :)
chicago was a balm for the soul 🥲 special thank you to @briansholis @micomonc for their generous recommendations!

dr. katalin karikó won the nobel prize in medicine today! what an incredible person. beyond well deserved. youtube.com/watch?v=514nzD…
new mixtape for your ears! it's one of my best. enjoy :) themixtapeshop.com/mixtape/not-to…
these lines from a tomas tranströmer poem (poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…) have been occupying my mind lately: so much that i loved, does it have any weight? so many dialects of green.

ARTISTS REMAKING MEDICINE is the 2nd book i've ever designed - a huge puzzle to make coherent given the different content formats within. somehow managed to pull through while also leading two client projects. very proud of the work! but soooo exhausted 😂 procedure.press