In 2016, the United States National Weather Service made an announcement: “LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS WILL STOP YELLING AT YOU.” The announcement only makes sense if you accept… Read More »How ALL CAPS Lost Its Voice
I’ve been catching up on my summer beach reading—mostly novels that take place in Berlin during the 1920s–early ’30s Weimar Republic before the deluge (Philip Kerr’s “Bernie Gunther” Weimar/Nazi detective series and Volker Kutscher’s noir… Read More »The Daily Heller: When Berlin Was Too Depressing for Words
Steel Riveters at Fire Dubbed “one of the most extraordinary, creative artists of our time” by Richard Branson, Ken White painted Virgin’s most famous image. Yet he never signed his name to it, and I… Read More »The case for anonymous work: what today’s creatives can learn from Ken White
Credit: Shi – stock.adobe.com By the time a brand can use youth slang safely, it’s already dead. I got sent a press release this week explaining what the TikTok phrase “quiet on the creek” means… Read More »The TikTok slang trap: why brands using it are already ‘cooked’
Pearl Gaze New York illustrator Wenjia Wang explains why she pairs pearls with fish eyes, silk with decay, and beauty with unease. In a world where everyone scrolls, and scrolls and scrolls, many of us… Read More »The seduction of discomfort: enter Wenjia Wang’s unsettling, beautiful worlds
Bike © Fatih Öztürk The Turkish illustrator, now painting from a quiet corner of Copenhagen, on why his sunbaked scenes of old video games and obsolete gadgets aren’t really about those toys at all. Think… Read More »Meet Fatih Öztürk, the artist who turns Vice City sunsets and dead Nokias into nostalgic paintings