About This Blog

This is a personal space for Simon Thibaudeau. Posts here range across food discoveries, photo experiments, home recipes, and the long-running Tuesday Morning Sweep (TMS) series, which breaks down transitions and tactics in mixed martial arts.

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This personal blog serves as a living archive of interests and experiments, from the kitchen to the camera. Recipes emerge from everyday cooking, documenting ingredient discoveries and the small victories of a home-cooked meal. The visual work ranges across photographic studies, typographic play, and the kind of graphic tinkering that happens when a designer lets curiosity lead. There is no single theme, and that is the point. The site embraces varia, the miscellaneous, the inconsequential stuff that builds a creative practice over time. Each post sits alongside others without forced coherence, creating a patchwork of process rather than a polished portfolio.

The Tuesday Morning Sweep series offers a recurring look at mixed martial arts through a tactical lens. These posts break down transitions, cage work, and the subtle shifts in stance and pressure that decide fights. The writing avoids hype and focuses on observation, treating each bout as a sequence of decisions rather than a highlight reel. This analytical approach carries over into other posts, whether the subject is a restaurant visit, a new lens, or a typographic choice. The voice stays consistent: curious, direct, and more interested in how things work than in simple verdicts.

Typography and layout are not afterthoughts here. The site itself is a canvas for the designer’s sensibility, with heavy sans-serif headings, generous spacing, and a bold magenta accent cutting across black and white sections. The visual language mirrors the content: flat, direct, and uncluttered. Every section feels like a deliberate composition, from the thin banner strips to the alternating background blocks. This is not decoration but structure, a way of letting the words and images breathe while keeping the energy high. The design reinforces the ethos of the blog itself, functional but never neutral.

Blogroll

Food and culture blogs worth following:

• He ate well
• 101 Cookbooks
• A Hunger Artist
• A La Cuisine!
• Accidental Hedonist
• Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef
• Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
• An Obsession with Food