Psychedelics Design
Alexandra PlesnerFirst week of a month: a digest of psychedelics and creative culture, followed two weeks later by an in-depth interview with the researchers, designers, and thinkers shaping the field.
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Psy*Design Monthly — May 2026: The Context Is the Medicine
Editor’s Note
We have been building quietly. Over the past 6 months, while the awards and festival have been the visible work, we have also been putting something more foundational in place: an educational section on the Psychedelics...
Building the Field: gina vensel from MAPS on Community, Media, and Cultural Shift
Editor’s Note
Some people you meet and immediately understand: this is someone who holds things together. gina vensel is one of those people.
gina works at MAPS on Educational & Community Impact, where she manages community partners...
Psy*Design Monthly — May 2026: Psychedelics and Contemporary Culture
Editor’s Note
One day past Bicycle Day — the anniversary of Albert Hofmann’s first intentional LSD trip — President Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to fast-track psychedelic therapies, allocating federal funding for...
Where It All Started: Bruno Maag on Typography, Trust, and the Visual Identity of Psychedelics
Editor’s Note
Every series has a beginning. A conversation that set the tone for everything that followed. For Psychedelics Design, that conversation was with Bruno Maag with whom I had the honour working on a project whilst I was at...
Psy*Design Monthly — Apr 2026: The Great Rebrand
Editor’s Note
The first four months of 2026 have posed a design question that keeps me up at night: when an entire field decides to shed its identity and reach for institutional legibility, what gets lost in the translation — and doe...
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Designer and Creative Consultant. I build Psychedelics Design, a platform on psychedelics at the intersection of design, philosophy, creativity, consciousness, system theory, and futures.
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