About

My name is Lucas (totally unexpected, I know) Rees and I’m a designer, developer and maker of things from Southern Germany. I craft all sorts of visual stuff with passionate people who love what they do —like me. I feel especially comfortable creating for screens, but I’m driven to explore, learn and experiment across all kind of media. Basically, I’m simply obsessed with form and function, texture and material. If you like to know more, I’ve written about my design ethos on the blog already.

lucasdidthis.com is my tumblr-like personal blog as well as my very own design LAB. It’s a place for my research and random finds, a showcase for creativity as well as an archive of random moments in time and space somewhat relevant to me. I like to think of it as my ‘digital garden’ or my ‘stream of consciousness’, forever in flux and always growing. There’s a bit more background information available in the very first article.

In summary, it’s a very subjective and infrequent publication about technology, design, music, art and (my personal) life.

Thanks for stopping by and taking your time.
Enjoy the blog and scroll slow!

»Human beings can’t make perfect things. When I make something symmetric, something a little too perfect, I always want to break it, destroy it a little. [ ... ] I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.«

Yōhji Yamamoto

Elsewhere

A few other corners of the world wide web I inhabit:

my personal website: lucasrees.com (under reconstruction)
a german non-profit organisation looking into new technology and its impact on society and culture I’ve founded with some colleagues: Virtuelle Kultur e.V.

my ever growing record collection: discogs.com
the music I’ve recently listened to via streaming: last.fm
some mixtapes I’ve curated: Spotify

inspiration (mostly images) I gather outside this blog: are.na

Fellows

Some friends and fine people who have inspired and/or supported me during my creative career:

Steffen Rümpler (mediastart)
Michael Jakob (forcewerk)
Fabian Hönig
Rainer Wiest
Tobias Wolf (Carlo)

»I’d say slow down, find a quiet place and create time for solitude so you can hear yourself. It’s so noisy out there. And find the good ones around you –the patient, compassionate and interested– then elevate the conversation as often as you can. The things that nourish you are also the things that will nourish your work, give it purpose, depth and soul. It’s hard to say what those things may be, but life has taught me over and over that you don’t need to know if you are willing to ask.«

Frank Chimero

Colophon

The blog is running on Kirby CMS with a custom build theme (version 02023.1)
The text set in Satoshi by the Indian Type Foundry and Lora by Olga Karpushina and Alexei Vanyashin for Cyreal

»Nichi nichi kore kōjitsu«

(日々是好日)