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Since 2017, The Mighty Type has been your source for the latest content in fresh creativity. Whether in writing, design, apparel, or playlists, The Type has you covered.
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THE BOPS OF 22
The Mighty Type's favorite songs of 2022. An eclectic mix of altpop, rock, and R&B featuring Rosalía, Alvvays, Tove Lo, Charli XCX, Yaya Bey, FKA Twigs, Omar Apollo, Caroline Polachek, and more. It's fresh, it's queer, it's here for next year ~
SHAPES OF THE SOUTHERN TEMPEST
It’s Short Story Sunday! More importantly, it’s finally spooky season… Today’s short fiction completes our trilogy of personal horror, with another sinister supernatural force manifesting itself from demons within.
SUN-DRENCHED SONGS FOR WINTER
Missing the heat? Feel like dancing, swimming, screaming a lyric to blue skies above? Cut through winter with these sun-soaked bops, carefully curated.
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Recent Designs
STIM + DROSS
An architectural design project for a media museum. How can architecture redefine the typically static relationships of museum engagement, so that site history and temporal experience become connected?
THE SANCTUARY
An undergraduate design thesis on subversive space in closed contexts. What does it mean to “queer” design, from the social/political to the formal/representational, and what protective roles can architecture play post-construction?
CULTURAS DEL CANTRI
An urban design proposal for speculative futures of dignity. How can urban design co-produce resilient fabrics capable of withstanding tense sociopolitical shifts in a long-term project regarding historically marginalized people?
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Hi! I’m Tanner.
The Mighty Type has grown over the years from a personal blog to an expanded website featuring a shop and my portfolio.
I grew up in the small farm town of Vernon, Texas before making the move to study architecture in upstate New York. Five years and a Bachelor of Architecture later, I relocated to Michigan and received my Master of Urban Design in 2022. I'm always writing, designing, and making; this is the best outlet to do and share what I love.
Design
With training and experience in architecture, urban design, and graphic design, I’m passionate about uncovering and expanding the potential roles design can play in forming built environments of belonging.
Research interests include social infrastructure, spatial justice, design methodology, and epistemology. I’m most inspired by the uncommon, irregular, or otherwise queer practices and approaches to design thinking.
I often draw upon my intersectional identities to translate ideas and find nuance across scales or contexts. My lived experience in both urban and rural contexts, as well as my ability to work and translate across the architectural and urban scales, informs much of my work, and I’ve found it to be one of my greatest strengths.
Each of these projects imagines the future of the design disciplines as inherently capable of enacting social justice through spatial transformation and methodological transgression. I’m always aiming to tease out potentials of design as a tangible, flexible vector. My design obsessions aim to expand the limits of process through irregular methodologies of hopeful inquiry. Threaded through each of these efforts is my design purpose.
ALL PROJECTS
Check below for an updated version of my edited design portfolio.
Tap the links below for project pages including abstracts, drawings, booklets, videos, and more.
2022
2021
2020
2019
flexform
the urban under
phytofields
2018
eter
ephemeral waters
architile
utopia
2017
home for the ex-implosion
riverside symbol
parallellospan
2016
coexistence
digital constructs I, II, III