WEs, WEs everyWhEre  By Sara Jo Johnson  We have two large
pieces of Woodtype from my husband’s letterpress studio that
seem to turn up in different locales around our house—and change
meaning regularly. They are the letters W and E—or perhaps M and
E. Our three-year old daughter constantly rearranges them. My
husband and I sometimes even passive aggressively talk through
them; if we’re in the halcyon days, they usually sit on the
bookshelf as WE. If one of us deems the other one selfish or
annoying, they may be on the dining room table as ME. I’ve even
found the need for EW when I felt like I was alone in desiring a
clean house.  During the DesignEthos 2012 DO-ference, I felt an
oddly physical and visual connection when Chris Miller of
Illuminomics—during the first DesignEthos panel—discussed this
necessary shift in mentality for designers from ME to WE. And
yes, we’ve all seen this shift. We actually embodied it at
DesignEthos:  Gone, we hope, are the days where designers are
publishing tomes about themselv