Newsletter 129
Hola.
Looking around me at home I see that I am surrounded by books, magazines, vinyl records.... Objects that can be called "on the verge of extinction". Technology means that now we don't need to occupy our space with these objects. A living room in today's home may well not have a single book and no music, only a smart device. The children of these families will not inherit that kind of culture. They will have nothing.
My family has been a typical Spanish middle class, with difficult economic times. And I remember that my parents made a tremendous effort to buy me books and encyclopedias. It was something "for life". Now you can only inherit subscriptions to platforms. The tangibility of culture has disappeared.
What objects will our children inherit? Ikea furniture that hasn't broken yet? Zara or H&M clothes that miraculously haven't fallen apart?
It is not a question of vindicating anything, only of confirming that technology has beaten us and made us poorer.
P.D. This Saturday I will be in Valencia at the Paradís event. If you come too, say hello ;)
— W.
📌 The links
Fictional Brands Archive
Fictional Brands Archive is a collection of many fictional brands found in films, series, and video games. It is structured according to the principles of brand design and aims to provide a comprehensive view of each fictional brand, framing them in their own fictional context and documenting their use and execution in the source work.Creator Report 23 by Linktree
Welcome to the attention economy. Where everyone on the internet competes for eyeballs by creating more and more stuff and viewers feel overwhelmed and creators can’t step off the hamster wheel of content creation and the internet is total freaking chaos.Selected Works: Album Covers from the ongoing collaboration between Michael Cina and Ghostly International, encompassing 2008—
The designer Michael Cina compiles on this website all his collaborations with the Ghostly International record label.Fontain
This collection is made possible by the libre font movement.
Libre as free. Free to use, free to study, free to modify.
Libre as in freedom, not price.Meet the skate industry’s under-the-radar heroes
Why videographers for the likes of Palace and Supreme are becoming increasingly influential.Interviews about visual design
Designers don’t talk about visual design enough. In this interviews, some people only talked about visual design.Made Index
A growing selection of American-made goods.Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
In the age of distributed workforces, creating collaborative magic can still seem like a tough feat. A new study highlights three forces shaping the future of work, and what sets the best teams apart from the chaos.Transition animations: a practical guide
Principles that can be used immediately by anyone in their design process.