I'm Justin Barber, a designer born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
I'm in the very early days of running Glenwood, my own creative studio.
Previously I was Head of Design at Applied Intuition, a Silicon Valley startup in the autonomous vehicle space.
The Prophecy and Artistic Potential of TikTok Star Bella Poarch
I refuse to download TikTok. Mostly because it feels like TikTok is always trying to download me, and that's kind of scary even though everyone says I'll love it. I probably will, which is why I can't afford the temptation of yet another endless stream of content just a tap
Tesla's Cybertruck: A Futuristic Design Sabotaged by Hypermasculinity
A few weeks before Tesla’s Cybertruck reveal in November 2019, Elon Musk teased the vehicle’s radical design on Twitter: “Cybertruck doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen bouncing around the Internet. It’s closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future.”At the time I rolled
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