With the 2024 election upon us, I am happily reminded of the 1964 Monocle magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, devoted to skewering 1964 presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater, who was portrayed as an unhinged, ultra-hawk for… Read More »The Daily Heller: Monocle Magazine’s Presidential Politics, 1964
We’ve all seen the new Toys R’ Us spot, and many of us are horrified by its implications and the increasing rise of AI. Animation studio Tentacle Media has decided to remind us of the… Read More »How one animation company is fighting AI by returning to the roots of motion pictures
We’ve all seen the new Toys R’ Us spot, and many of us are horrified by its implications and the increasing rise of AI. Animation studio Tentacle Media has decided to remind us of the… Read More »How one animation company is fighting AI by returning to the roots of motion pictures
Geometric shapes are used across the identity to house imagery and represent the diverse businesses that use Storey. DixonBaxi is behind the new identity for co-working space Storey, which uses overlapping tangrams to represent the… Read More »DixonBaxi designs tangram-inspired identity for Storey co-working spaces
One of the book ideas I’m considering is a history of shopping in retail markets (i.e., through one or more intermediaries, not the direct producer). It would begin in roughly the 17th century and take… Read More »The Roots of Modern Retail
Photo by George Harrison Glastonbury isn’t just about Dua Lipa and Shania Twain. Half an hour’s walk from the main stage is an incendiary art show that’s both mirroring and questioning modern consumer society. Read… Read More »Glastonbury ’24: why Shangri-La is the world’s most important art show right now