Frank Chimero
is a designer and creative director based in New York
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Studio Frank ↗
My brand design practice
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Very occassional original writing
Projects
The Shape of Design ↗
Book
2012 · 144pp.
Dust
Collages
2017–2020
Aaarrrpp
Music box
2026
Writing
Beyond the Machine
AI as instrument
2025
Everything Easy is Hard Again
Learning and re-learning in tech
2018
The Web's Grain
Design by thinking inside the box model
2015
Only Openings
Tending to problems instead of solving them
2014
Designing in the Borderlands
Design at the edges of exchange
2014
What Screens Want
Choreography over composition
2013
Archive
Beyond the Machine Extras
2025.10.24
Beyond the Machine
2025.10.20
Selling Lemons
2025.09.30
Eel-evation
2025.09.29
Time is On My Side
2025.08.19
The Green Ray
2021.08.31
Hands TV
2020.08.03
Who cares?
2020.02.04
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Monkey Trap
2019.09.19
When the Work Looks Back At You
2018.06.06
The Good Room
2018.02.15
Everything Easy is Hard Again
2018.02.09
New Visual Essay: Back to the Cave
2017.04.15
SuperHi Foreword
2017.04.11
Plainness and Sweetness
2017.03.27
Tarkovsky’s Flame
2017.02.27
Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker
2016.01.06
Other Halves
2015.05.02
The Web’s Grain
2015.02.18
Rules of Engagement
2014.08.28
From the Porch to the Street
2014.08.26
Massimo and Me
2014.05.27
Only Openings
2014.05.14
Designing in the Borderlands
2014.04.03
What Screens Want
2013.11.14
The Inferno of Independence
2013.09.24
Portraits
2013.07.17
Why vs. How
2013.03.22
The Cloud Is Heavy and Design Isn’t Invisible
2013.03.13
The Humble Pencil, The Mighty Computer
2012.07.26
The Wall
2011.12.14
The Particle
2011.10.16
The Long, Hard, Stupid Way
2011.09.13
Sorting a Mass
2011.06.27
Reading Readiness
2011.05.13
Making the Bed You Sleep In
2011.01.19
What Advice Would You Give To A Graphic Design Student?
2010.08.20
There Is No Catching Up
2010.06.01
You Are Here
2010.05.20
Big Ideas
2010.03.01
Anti-Pre-Pro
2010.02.19
Whiteboard Accounting
2010.01.15
On Iteration
2010.01.10
Ten Principles
2009.02.09