Abe Hagood

Miami isn't listening to us; make them

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Miami isn't listening to us; make them

"The truth is blatantly obvious: those speaking on behalf of the vast majority of students were barely allowed to enter the room because their opinions and voices were not valued."

Meet the Columnist: Abe Hagood

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Meet the Columnist: Abe Hagood

"I am, to the frequent disgruntlement of my friends, a very opinionated person. It’s not uncommon that I’m stopped mid-rant and asked to 'shut up.'"

Americans aren’t reading anymore. Here is how you can

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Americans aren’t reading anymore. Here is how you can

"In a 2022 poll from the National Endowment for the Arts, for the first time, fewer than 50% of adults had read a book in the past year. The trend is clear: The average United States citizen no longer reads for pleasure."

Perennial

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Perennial

Unfinished experiment with an ascii shader. No gameplay at the moment, but I may add some in the future. Switch to the second scene using the up arrow

Unfinished experiment with an ASCII shader I worked on with some friends. No gameplay at the moment, but I may add some in the future.

Switch to the second scene using the up arrow

Book Cover Project

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For this project, I was tasked with creating several designs across different styles for the cover of a theoretical book with the following description:

The Space Between by Adrian Zigler

In this haunting debut novel, Adrian Zigler weaves a masterful tale of humanity’s final hours stretched across the fabric of time itself. “The Space Between” follows Dr. Sarah Chen, a quantum physicist who discovers that the universe isn’t simply ending—it’s already ended countless times before.

When Sarah’s experimental quantum observatory detects patterns of temporal decay, she realizes she’s witnessing something unprecedented: the death of time itself, rippling backward through history. As reality begins to unravel around her, she discovers she’s not the first scientist to make this observation. Across different timelines, different versions of humanity have tried—and failed—to prevent the coming temporal collapse.

With the help of Marcus Blackwood, a mysterious colleague who seems to exist in multiple timelines at once, Sarah embarks on a desperate journey through the “spaces between” moments, seeking the origin point of universal entropy. But each jump through time reveals a more terrifying truth: what if humanity’s attempts to prevent the end are actually causing it?

Zigler’s debut combines cutting-edge physics with philosophical questions about fate, free will, and the cyclical nature of existence. “The Space Between” offers a fresh perspective on the time travel genre, asking not whether we can change the past, but whether we should try to change anything at all. This mind-bending thriller will leave readers questioning their own place in the grand cosmic dance of creation and destruction.

I created nine designs in typography, illustrated, and Photoshop-focused styles and chose one from each style to iterate on further. This project required me to put into practice my skills across several programs and in design to develop covers that were visually appealing and fit the theme.

Typography Cover

Illustration Cover

Photoshop Cover

The Miami Plan could save you from AI

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The Miami Plan could save you from AI

"What makes an individual stand out in the application process is what experiences and perspectives they bring from outside their specific field. To stand out in a shrinking job market, students don’t just need a professional major; they need the liberal arts programs that make them unique."

This was an opposing column with Miami Plan: Productive or problematic?

Miami may soon eliminate more majors due to Senate Bill 1, low enrollment

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Starting in the fall of 2023, Miami University removed or consolidated 19 majors due to low enrollment. Now in 2025, more majors may soon be removed due to changes in state law and the relocation of resources toward majors with high levels of enrollment.

This was my first full reported story. Over the course of a few weeks, I interviewed seven people to try to get the full picture and broke news that faculty members told me they were not aware of before. Of course, this is part of the larger landscape of pressures and changes within higher education and continues to develop. I’m very interested in this subject and am working on several pieces surrounding it at the moment, including a follow-up to this story as the university continues to remove and consolidate majors.

Flexible Logo Campaign

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For this project, I researched a brand and created a flexible logo and associated advertisement campaign that fit with the brand’s identity.

Research

Logo

The main icon of The Verge is the V from their full text logo. It’s separated into two pieces that are reminiscent of an apostrophe and a forward slash. To me, this is representative of The Verge’s crossover between journalism and technology.

Colors

The main colors of the Verge are purple, dark gray, and white, with a seafoam accent color. They also use several other colors, namely pink, yellow-green, and orange. All of The Verge’s colors are very vibrant and “pop” off the page.

TheVerge.com

The Verge is most well-known for its website and news reporting. It covers all aspects of technology and digital media, but is most focused on “gadgets” and reviews of all the new devices that come out each year.

The Verge is very focused on modernism in journalism and not just reporting on technology, but implementing it and its novel mediums into the way it reports. For example, The Verge has recently been moving towards federating its site and has implemented small live posts that provide information quickly, similar to a tweet.

The website breaks the convention of many news organizations, which often just replicate the design of a traditional newspaper, and instead focuses on organically sorting content for the user and providing breaking news through the aforementioned live feed. The Verge is focused not only on tech but on the ways that journalism and design overlap with it.

Podcasts

The Verge has several very popular podcasts. In the design of these, you can see a clear focus on analog hardware in a 3D stylized style. This calls back to their focus on gadgets and physical technology. They also have a consistent font between the Vergecast and decoder.

The phone from the intro to the “Vergecast Hotline”

Flexible Logos

Campaign Mockups

City council has a turnover of two members after Nov. 4 election

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:15:00 +0000

City council has a turnover of two members after Nov. 4 election

The votes have been cast and the results are in – current city council members William Snavely and Jason Bracken will be joined by incumbents Amber Franklin and Alex French and new members James Vinch and Roxanne Ornelas.

This article required me to work quickly to prepare for and interview the new city council members the morning after they won the election. These were some of my first interviews and my first cold calls, so I had to learn a lot in the field. The day before I also helped with our live election day coverage.

Bell Tower is a dystopian nightmare

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Bell Tower is a dystopian nightmare

GrubHub is completely distanced from the user and does not provide any direct methods of remediating an issue. Have a problem with an order? You can’t talk to a cashier, but you can report an issue in the app; maybe a chatbot or worker in a third-world country will get back to you.

This was a foray into a comedic style of writing that I hadn’t done much of before, but which I think I did well.

Miami: You’re a liberal arts college, not a polytechnic institute

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Miami: You’re a liberal arts college, not a polytechnic institute

"The new system changes how funding for departments is calculated. Now, 40% of instructional revenue will be given to a student's primary major, a large increase from the 25% set aside previously. This means that a department will get far less funding for offering courses to students from other majors, emphasizing ones that mostly offer courses to its own students and punishing ones that participate heavily in the Miami Plan."

This was my first opinion piece for The Miami Student. It involved a lot of research into trends in higher education and the changes at the university and broadly discuses my general discontent with the way Miami University has been operated and the path I see it going down. This piece picked up a lot of traction and was shared on social media by the university’s union.

Squirreling Around

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Squirreling Around

Take over NYC as an empire of devious squirrels.

Made with a team in the course of a couple of weeks for a Jam. I worked on the music, most of the art, and much of the design, with some work on programming and other areas.

Absorbtion - Godot Wild Jam #83

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Absorbtion - Godot Wild Jam #83

Platform and absorb other blobs to gain power ups

I made this game for a game jam over the course of two weeks. It was my first time using Godot and included a lot of experimentation. I didn’t know about state machines or other more advanced game dev techniques at the time, which would have helped.