Meet the owner
A creative tour de force within journalism, writing, editing, and interviewing, Spencer has written
and reported on various cultural spheres -architecture, art, design, and technology among
them - for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Town & Country, and Surface.
(He served as the latter’s editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2018.) He is also the editor-at-large
of the publisher Phaidon, for which his latest book is Alchemy: The Material World of David
Adjaye (July 2023). As co-founder of the New York–based media company The Slowdown
which he launched in 2019, he oversees its slate of newsletters and hosts its Time Sensitive
podcasts. Spencer’s aim with The Slowdown and its distinctive intersectional approach?
“To create a slow and sustainable counterbalance to the hyper-streamlined, quick-hit, dopamine-
driven culture that’s so pervasive on the internet and social media”, he says.