About this site

Gary Li brings together its original subject material and a separately authored editorial reading room focused on product design and prototyping.

What the reading room provides

The portfolio brings together product design, flat work and photography. The editorial notebook explores how to frame a design question, choose a useful prototype and describe the evidence behind a decision. New editorial articles have their own byline.

These guides support careful reading and clear records. They distinguish an original project or publication from a new editorial explanation, and an observed result from a hypothetical example.

Attribution

New guides are signed Editorial team. This identifies the website’s editorial contribution; it does not claim authorship by a person whose original work appears in the collection, a professional licence, or current affiliation with a historical business or institution. Original publications retain their own dates and attribution where available.

Finding a useful starting point

Use the topics page for the purpose of each guide and the blog for the reviewed reading list. Sources appear alongside the claims they support. Examples are labelled when hypothetical, and unresolved historical material is kept separate from the current reading list.