About Craig Mod — Bio and contact information
Join some ~30,000 other subscribers. Roden: photography × literature × tech × film (monthly) Ridgeline: walking × Japan (weekly) Always one-click to unsubscribe. Since 2019 I've run a "membership program" which now powers almost all of the work I do. It's called SPECIAL PROJECTS and you can read more about it here, and subscribe here. I've written for WIRED, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Eater, The Japan Times, Papersky Magazine, New Scientist, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, CNN.com, Codex: A Journal of Typography, A List Apart, and other magazines, newspapers, and websites. I'm the author or co-author (and designer/co-designer) of the following books: I've created other experimental, single-copy books like: I have two main newsletters with about 30,000 subscribers: But also regularly write "pop-up" newsletters; you can see my newsletter history here: /newsletters. On the topic of newsletters I've written: I've been an advisor for Medium Co
Subscribe to my newsletters Join some ~50,000 other subscribers. Roden: photography × literature × tech × film (monthly) Ridgeline: walking × Japan (weekly) Always one-click to unsubscribe. Me and Rich Roll † Sadly, as of May 2026, I have to add this note: If you send me an email / DM and it has even a whiff of having been written by an LLM, it will be immediately deleted. Particulars AI and Writing Ahh, 2026 — what a year. One where you need to caveat everything. Here is where I stand on the use of AI, and how AI tools intersect with my writing: The implicit contract between…
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