Michael Olson

walgreens, don’t pretend to be cool. this is embarrassing.

elegant or over-engineered way to handle horizontal navs on mobile? I think it's neat, but it might not make it to production for a few reasons. #uxsky #designsky

It’s incredible that Clair Obscur was made by French people; it seems intent on confirming all cartoon stereotypes about French people.

rebuilding portfolio website, day 1: nothing fancy, I just need to do the bare minimum, make it look good, and be done in two weeks day 93: I have implemented a bad version of figma’s comment system

I finally turned off the “Michael, you’re on a roll on LinkedIn!” emails that I seemed to get every day despite never opening LinkedIn, and it’s the most noticeable improvement in my quality of life in roughly 3 years.

Here's one of the very few just-for-fun illustrations I've actually finished. Heavily inspired by Arnie Jorgensen's work in Banner Saga, which is inspired in part by the art of Eyvind Earle. Dated March 9, 2020 😰

10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated: I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.

I added a day counter to my portfolio site starting when it launched, so everyone knows I was 3 years dumber when I made it. (I did this to avoid working on a new version)

Yokai before and after domestication smh

If you’re like me and built your whole life around being sort of good at drawing when you were a child, I think you should watch Look Back. (Or if you just appreciate great animation and have a Prime account)

As my first official act on bsky, here's a list of all the fine folks I could find here who've been guests on the good good design podcast dive.club by @ridd-design.bsky.social. Hope to see more soon!

Hi internet friends! It was tough, but I made the incredibly noble and righteous and brave decision to delete my other account (with a really, really big following!) and come here.