All about Ken Hawkins

From the roof of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

Six weeks ago I wrote a note about going down the stack: SheepShaver booted Mac OS 9.0.4 on Apple Silicon with a native JIT, and 9.2 was the thing I still could not do.

Over the last months, I've been reflecting on my career, how I position what it is I do and how I use this site to communicate it.

SheepShaver is a legendary Mac OS emulator (fast, compatible, beloved), but it cannot boot Mac OS 9.2.

Recently I was in a meeting with colleagues talking about how people across the organisation are using AI in their writing.

Datatype, by Frank Tisellano, is a variable font that renders inline bar charts, sparklines, and pie charts straight out of OpenType ligatures.

I've been building hobby projects for years.

At some point in most design or content reviews you find yourself trying to answer a question you can't answer cleanly: not "is it pretty?"

Check out SVGOMG-Font Every so often I need to put an SVG with text on a website: an infographic, a diagram, a data visualisation with labels.

Clarity | Audience Quality | Strategic Alignment Context The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the UN's focal point for disaster risk reduction, coordinating global policy and supporting Member States to reduce disaster risk and…