Brands: Colour, Craft and Character.

· Brand Zohran · AppleTV · Beauty dystopia ·

Nov 12 • 

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Fonts & Farts

· Fartnite! · Fonts matter · AI realities · The end of mass media ·

Nov 5 • 

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October 2025

Plots & Vibes

Today’s dispatch threads through some fascinating ways young people are interacting with stories, and how storytelling is adapting to them.

Oct 29 • 

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Culture, Code, Colour

· Pick your nose · The bubble that must not be named · Culture, Not Code ·

Oct 22 • 

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1 year: collisions & connections

Watch now | · a milestone · hermès artists · social slop · laphroaig ·

Oct 8 • 

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AI: Everything Everywhere All At Once

· Claude vs Chat · FOOM & Vibes · Workslop ·

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Uncanny Valley

· Remaking memories · AI music deals · State of animation ·

Sep 24 • 

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Formality, fonts, picnics & play

· friendly fonts · creator ratings · a British tableau · action Lego · Canva cricket ·

Sep 17 • 

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Not Unhinged

· 'Designed to be deleted' · Why Do It? · Verts · Social simulation collapse ·

Sep 10 • 

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Puppets & Prompts

· emotional % · bland & popular? · trailer park · model collapse ·

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

Pixels & Pandemonium

Long Live pixel art! Long live pixel art! Gentle Monster, Ch4, Bundesliga, Youtube AI, Netflix, Kpop

Aug 27 • 

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The hybrid, the real, the crafted.

· Docu-speak · Symphony of sound · Vubbing · BrandDid ·

Aug 20 • 

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