It has been 10 years since my art piece "Lifting a Dreamer" became the Twitter Fail Whale, a symbol as @Twitter's service outrage during 2008-2013. It has inspired hundreds, probably thousands, of funny, clever & amusing homages and take-offs from users globally. Here are a few: – at San Francisco, CA

🇮🇹 Ciao! From Silicon Valley to Milano! 🚀 I’m delighted to be in Italy as part of the Italian Trade Agency’s U.S. delegation for @CES Unveiled Milan 2026, connecting entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and creative leaders across borders. #CESUnveiledMilan @cta

My @ATypI 2026 @Stanford closing keynote, “Designing for #Belonging: How #Color, #Typography, and Iconography Shape Culture, Community, and the Human Experience,” is now online! 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=b_06vapJ… Next up: #ATypISharjah, Oct 28–31! atypi.org/conferences-events… #type #design

🥳＆🎉 Happy #AmpersandDay! Sept 8 celebrates typography’s curly & quirky “&” — born from Latin “et” (“and”) and made to connect.

How can human #creativity + AI forge deeper connection? At our “Designing for Belonging” #Analog + #AI workshop at @Adobe #SF with @AIGASF, 50+ Bay Area creatives drew themselves as dumplings 🥟, transforming moments of non-belonging into belonging. The results were breathtaking. – at San Francisco, CA

🥟 Instead of AI slop, what if #Analog & #AI together could help us feel more connected? I recently hosted a “Designing for Belonging” workshop at @Adobe SF w/ @AIGASF to turn hand-drawn sketches into animations through @AdobeFirefly, transforming non-belonging into #belonging✨

My first post on @Substack about #AI and #Creativity: Seeds of Possibilities: How My 21-Year-Old Pomegranate Illustration Grew Into a Tropical Orchard with Generative AI: open.substack.com/pub/yiying…

Happy World Emoji Day 🥳🎉😍

🎨🥟👩🏻‍💻 Join me July 21 at @Adobe SF for “Designing for Belonging” with @AIGASF! Explore #Analog + #AI with Sharpies, @AdobeExpress & @AdobeFirefly. 📅 Tuesday, July 21 🕠 5:30–7:30 PM 📍 Adobe SF: 601 Townsend St RSVP 🔗👇 designbayarea.org/july-21-de… #Design #SF #Belong – at San Francisco, CA

🤔 What remains irreplaceably human when #design is automated & accelerated? Find out June 2 at @sfdesignweek with me, @TedsLittleDream, Evgenia Piskun & @thekatcafe_. ⏰ 8:30–10 AM PT 📍 @Adobe SF, 601 Townsend St, SF 🎟️ RSVP: sfdesignweek.org/event/creat… – at San Francisco, CA