Lee Black

I’m really honoured to be named Best @Framer Designer 2025. A lot of hours, a lot of care, a lot of obsession, and a lot of trying to make things feel a bit more human. Very thankful to Framer and to everyone who’s supported the work. Means a lot. 💙

The Minimalists rebrand + mobile app 2016

Concept made for the Runway big ad contest earlier this year. Was so much fun to make. I’m no video guy (Final cut done on an iPhone whilst laying in bed 😛), but did enjoy creating the concept and storyboard.

@GregHuntoon Yep!

@mrblackstudio With you, brother. #girldad here too, with both of them experiencing what you're talking about far too often. 17yo + 19yo girls shouldn't ever have to be enduring this type of shit.

Everyone’s over here panicking about AI taking their jobs. I’m more concerned about the 50 year old bloke leching over my 12 year old daughter and her friend on the tram, then smiling and winking at her as she got off. She was so scared she had to call us. This is the second time we’ve had this type of thing happen in the last year. Or my 17 year old daughter having to think twice about what she wears in 30°C weather because grown men in their 30s, 40s and 50s have literally pulled over, rolled down their windows, made weird noises at her, or just stared and leched at her in a way that makes her feel unsafe. How the hell have we normalised this? If you’re a grown man making teenage girls feel uncomfortable in public, you’re not “complimenting” them. You’re a sick fucking creep. Leave the kids the fuck alone!

@thefinnmckenty 100%

@mrblackstudio In a just society, it would be an instant green light on these guys

@AlexAperios @Apple 100%. I’ve still got a 2008 19 inch MBP with the matte display. 19 inches man. One of the best designed MBPs Apple ever made. Howefer, runs like an asthmatic mule these days, and that’s after hacking the RAM which you could do back then 😅

@mrblackstudio @Apple Haha the amount of macs I’ve seen come and go man. A lot of money of these machines. Always worth it though.

Okay so when did buying a new mac become painful? I used to be able to press a button and transfer my whole life to new laptop. Now I need to enter 3 passwords, reconnect my wifi, text my phone, re enter my email and restart my machine. wtf! @Apple have lost it!

Because it isn’t one old man. Its happened to both of my daughters, repeatedly, by different men over the years. Every girl dad I know seems to have a similar story. If I’m there, of course I’d challenge it. I’d probably do more than challenge it TBH. But I’m not with my daughters every time they get on a tram, walk home from school, or go into town. The post wasn’t about one bloke. It was about how common this behaviour is, and the fact far too many girls grow up thinking it’s just something they have to put up with.

@mrblackstudio Why you need make a post here on X? What is the reason behind this? Why you are not going to this old men and talking to them, from man to a man. I'm just asking questions to understand :)

@AlexAperios @Apple Same. I wait till major projects are out the way and have more free time. Plus some updates just bring issues, so wait out until everything is stable. Not as bad 15 years ago though. Sometimes you’d get the black screen of death, which happened once. I’m scarred.

@mrblackstudio @Apple I try my best to avoid updating software until the last minute. lol

@AlexAperios @Apple Haha yes, I had that once because I refused for almost 6 months to update to Liquid Glass (because it still sucks) on an old MacBook. I held off as long as I could, then I was forced 😅

@mrblackstudio @Apple Managed to get it to work. was a update issue on my old laptop lol. very odd.

@ijsthee @Jamayal !!!!YES📢

@mrblackstudio @Jamayal Louder Lee! Women should do fuck all but whatever they want without perverts harassing them

@Brandon_chandle Why would you hijack this type of post and then try to sell me something in DM? Like I’m going to now be all chummy with you. Need to get your sales strategy in check!

@mrblackstudio lee sent a private message about mrblackstudio in DMs

@Jamayal Nah, they should be able to go outside wearing what the hell they like, have a nice time being teenagers, or pre-teenagers with their friends, and feel safe.

@mrblackstudio This is so fucking wrong! Women should learn to fight and kick some nuts.

I agree. Talking to my wife about it, she reminded me when we were in a club around 1998. She would’ve been 17/18 at the time. Someone out of nowhere attacked me (unprovoked) and then some other guys jumped in to break it up. During the breakup she had a guy groping her. It’s nothing new. She also said from age 14, grown men would lech at her in a sexual way.

@mrblackstudio This is disgusting, I’m so sorry. It’s disturbing how many girls have stories like this

@yllwszn Sadly, there’s very little you can do… unless I happen to be there.

@mrblackstudio As someone who has 3 junior sisters this is something that irks me a lot. Some men are just creeps, please report them, I’m very sorry your teenage daughters are experiencing something like this . 🙏

@troymyatt How I think about these people.

@mrblackstudio That is sick and disgusting! WTH is wrong with people?

It’s heartbreaking. We talk to our girls about this stuff all the time. We’re lucky that nothing’s off limits in our house. I wish more families felt they they could have those conversations. But at the end of the day, I’m not a substitute father figure for young men. Respect starts at home. Social media has absolutely poured petrol on the fire. The Tate brothers, the looksmaxxing crowd, and every other bloke selling insecurity and misogyny to teenage boys have far more influence than they should. But it’s bigger than social media too. We’ve somehow normalised the sexualisation of pre-teen girls across parts of mainstream media, and that should make everyone deeply uncomfortable. It always comes back to the same thing for me. How is Maxine Carr the only one who ended up in prison? This isn’t a problem created by one or two monsters. It’s far bigger and more powerful than that.

Unfortunately this is a somewhat universal girlhood experience. I’ve had similar and worse situations happen to me as early as 10 years old and I’m sure the current online narrative is only amplifying this type of behavior. I would suggest as a man and a father of girls to talk about this more often so young men can get some healthier role models for a change and hopefully we can curb this trend in the next generation.

@ksarme @arynadesigns Ooof that hits hard.

@arynadesigns @mrblackstudio There’s a famous saying: The end times will come when nine sick men approach one healthy man and say, "You are sick, because you are not like us."

@arynadesigns Yeah heard something similar from an ex-colleague. She told me when was 16-17 and in a club, she’d also get groped constantly AND that she and her friends had to just accept it. It’s not on! I’m ready to kick ass 🥋

@mrblackstudio Happened to me too as a young girl in Eastern Europe. The only way to deal with it was unfortunately accepting that masculinity is inherently aggressive, unstable and unpredictable. Although it would’ve been nice to have had a magic button that makes dad show up to kick their ass

@gregalthoff Sounds like a plan. Plus I’m a Scotsman from an old town living in Germany. You have a German surname that translates to Oldtown. It’s meant to be 🙌

Sounds Perfect. I've had to pivot into less taxing creative endeavors. My wife and I sell art prints/cards/T-Shirts that we create, print and package all from our home. It gets me away from the desk and it gets me into markets and boutiques where we get to meet all sorts of people and be social. Lee, I think we'll need to hang out when I visit Europe!

Cut. Paste. Breathe. Analogue Fridays.