This morning began with HTML.
The goal was simple: finish the first public version of my website.
By noon, the homepage and the first dossier had reached a point where they no longer felt like placeholders. They felt intentional.
That should have been enough for one day.
Instead, something unexpected happened.
While documenting Digital Archives, I realized I wasn’t writing about information architecture. I was practicing it.
The examples I needed for the website didn’t exist yet, so I decided to build one around my own music catalogue.
That project became Painful Records Information Architecture v1.0.
The document began as a simple folder hierarchy. It grew into a blueprint for organizing creative work across artists, projects, releases, sound design, documentation, and long-term preservation.
More importantly, it revealed something I hadn’t fully recognized.
Information architecture has been part of my work for decades.
At the Applied Multimedia Training Centre, I learned that creative work depends on organization as much as inspiration. HTML documents, Flash projects, Photoshop assets, audio loops, and multimedia assignments all required a structure that another person could understand. Those habits never disappeared. They simply became invisible because I used them every day.
Today brought them back into focus.
I also realized that my interests are not separate pursuits competing for attention.
They are different expressions of the same instinct.
I enjoy creating systems that help creative work endure.
That sentence may become the foundation of everything that follows.
Today’s work was never really about folders.
It was about recognizing the architecture that had quietly existed beneath my work all along.
Status
The archive remains open.