For the past two years, I worked for an independent press specializing in architecture, graphic design, and visual culture, which means I got to work with a lovely array of books and indulge, on a daily basis, the side of me that's been interested in graphic design since my...

While checking my morning emails and going about my usual business a few days ago, I received a frightening alert: my Gmail account was reaching near capacity. With 6974 MB of messages, attachments, and auto-saved chats, I was apparently at 95% of Gmail's supposedly "unlimited and growing" storage limit. The...