My blog posts about “Uncategorised”

• To-do Lists

  Is it an inescapable human behaviour to turn everything into a to-do list? It seems like we can contort anything – digital or physical – into a parking lot for things to do. Here’s a random assortment of things that are just different variations of my to-do list: 23 emails in my inbox The 34 tabs in my web browser…

• Classic Modern Trance Mix – 2 hours of essential trance tracks

  I’ve always wanted to assemble my perfect mix of emotive, deep, driving, and euphoric trance tracks spanning everything from old school classics like Cafe Del Mar to modern classics like Anjunafamily. This is it: 2 hours of pure joy. Some people consider the halcyon days of trance to be long gone. And it’s true: some of the biggest, most classic…

• The Best Songs of 2019 – DJ Mix

  2019 saw some amazing new releases and collaborations from the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Stormzy, Kesha, Avicii (RIP), Duke Dumont, Whitney Houston (from the grave!), Major Lazer and Armin van Buuren. I took some time out from my holiday schedule of G&Ts and Aperol spritzes in order to celebrate the best of 2019 in the only way I know…

• Notes on “Global Sustainability” by Mark Lefko

  Sustainability has become an increasing interest of mine at Canva. As our company grows, the impact of our decisions becomes bigger and bigger. Those decisions affect things from the way that we design to the way that we serve food. They affect not only what our customers do, but what happens inside our own building and how we support our…

• The importance of food at startups

  “Cliff, I cannot … I just cannot eat any more sausages.” That’s what Ollie – our first backend engineer – said one day, while expressing his dismay at the quite limited culinary options we’d offered thusfar at Canva. For a change, we got Turkish takeaway. I have fond memories – in a rite-of-passage kind of way – of Cliff cooking…

• The best notebook in the world

  I’ve found it. The best notebook in the world. Ok, ok … the best notebook in the world for me. (And possibly for you.) It’s even the perfect stable table when you’re drinking coffee on the couch. For something that’s essentially 100 pieces of paper stapled together, your choice of notebook simultaneously means absolutely nothing and is incredibly revealing. You…

• 33 Minutes of Love – A live DJ mix

  TL;DR I have a new 33 minute DJ mix up at: https://youtu.be/HtrFw1pS3Hg I’ve been feeling reinvigorated by music in 2019, so I’ve decided to devote a large percentage of my personal time to music and music-related things. However, perfectionism is a big problem for me when it comes to music, so to counteract this I’m going to employ some different…

• Word Bubbles

  Speech bubbles encapsulate discourse. Word bubbles … are just great fun. My latest experiment gives you the delightful ability to turn your words into a hundred floating bubbles, right in front of your eyes. I encourage you to give it a go and send me a screenshot of your favourite word bubble.

• The importance of craftsmanship

  There’s a fantastic exhibition on at the moment down at the NGV in Melbourne. It’s part retrospective, part installation, and part collaboration between MC Escher and Japanese design firm Nendo. (Definitely go see it!) Escher’s work has captivated me since I was a child. I fondly remember devouring a massive book of his complete works and doodling my own neverending…

• The Best Of 2018 – A continuous music mix

  2018 had some amazing songs released in every genre. In regular tradition (est. 2018) I’ve put together a 60 minute sonic journey across the entire year, from hip hop, to trap, house, trance and drum & bass. You can stream it from Soundcloud or download the MP3 here and enjoy 2018 in all its splendour! Tracklist Alice Ivy – Chasing…