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I'm Oz, a designer of things
Explore the signals from my noisy mind
Oz is a designer of things, based in Montreal. Portfolio at ozgur.design.
Latest note, The Two Stripes at Molineux, on why soccer money always flows to the top.
Reading Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. Playing Hogwarts Legacy. Streaming The Gentlemen. Watching Seth Meyers.
Song of the month, L'appuntamento by Ornella Vanoni.
Recently launched Gridget Bardot, Motus Axis, and Marie Curious.
I write about the overlooked, the contradictory, and the quietly absurd.
In 1959 an East German army club painted over the third stripe on its Adidas boots rather than admit the socialist state made worse footwear. Sixty-seven years later, UEFA pays its top-ranked club thirty-six times what it pays its bottom one, by statute. A look at what concentrates the game.
Nine in ten writers want to be paid when their books train a model. One in eight already uses one. The last American slide rule was made in 1976 and handed to a museum, and the engineers who swore by it bought calculators anyway. Refusal and adoption have always shared a desk.
A complaint arrived through the contact form of blogroll.blog about the wrong flag on a listed blog. The flag was drawn by a standard, the standard follows the United Nations, and the United Nations inherited a fight from 1971. There is no neutral country list. The dropdown has already chosen.
I build minimal tools and run small experiments.
A Mac menu-bar app that draws guides and layout grids over your whole screen, for checking alignment in any app. Free, macOS 14+.
Rotate, pan and zoom a cube, a sphere or a figure like in a 3D app. When you let go, it says what you did, as in Rotate -125° X-Axis.
Marie asks, you pick. Two elements, one question. Which is heavier, denser or hotter to melt? A Commodore 64 style chemistry game.
I make spoofs of pop culture, catch life being itself, mix palettes by feel, and cross mediums freely.
