Good morning!
It finally feels like fall, so I’m whipping out the autumnal seasonal regulars. It’s one of my favorite times of year, though it’s always fleeting. Excited when it becomes socially acceptable to make all the lights in my house purple, green, and orange. 💀🎃🪄
Design Doubloons
Everything in the world is cool
Over the Garden Wall Vinyl
The inside of the folio has the beast in a shiny black finish against the matte illustration, which makes him only visible with the sheen of reflection
The Art of Gravity Falls
I have always loved the art of this show, and I’m happy to report the concept book I got this week delivers on every front. Character design, scenic design, and an extensive look into the whole process of building a show
Loooong Boy
I love when content makes the most of its space. This dog food company had all the long strips of ads on the subway stretch out illustrations of dogs
Lemongrass Brooklyn Menu
I wish this picture did this menu cover justice. The way the colors vibrated off the flatness of the red…
Creative Links
Design, tech, creative, and other fun stories I’ve come across
Every Single Frame - Pick from 45 famously visually iconic movies and shuffle through random frames to see how beautiful every millisecond is
Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot - Panic! at the Disco and Sum 41 producer Matt Squire was hired to create an emo album for the fast food chain
A fan made touch bar - I loved when my MacBook had a touch bar. I just don’t know if it’s responsible to spend $167 on that novelty
Meta VR Glasses - They launched these bug eye sunglasses sized VR glasses this week. The form factor from these companies keeps getting smaller, but the issue remains: who would trust their data with Meta?
Apple Music Hall opens today - with a performance by Elton John. It’s their flagship venue in London teched out to capture content for Vision Pro, Apple TV, and spatial audio
Gravity Falls is getting a spin-off - Found this out while actively writing this edition. Fans have found some weird easter eggs on this cryptic website
Made on YouTube recap is up - Not sure why they didn’t livestream this considering that’s a big part of their service, but a lot of new features coming to YouTube with a big focus on TV.
Last Week’s Videos
The cow one kinda blew up on YouTube?
THE LAUGHING COW ISN’T LAUGHING ANYMORE
They made the cow depressed on the cheese wheel packaging for unknown reasons
YouTube | Instagram
MCLAREN LOOKS LIKE EVERLANE NOW
They’re trying to “spiff up” the brand to be used more generally across pillars to become more of a luxury brand. Which is a wild sentence to say about such an expensive car.
YouTube | Instagram
Found Design Treasure
Cool stuff made by other people
IS THAT LINOCUT?
Japanese artist Qi Ren makes these beautiful art prints that are saturated in vivid colors
THE SKYLINE IS THE CENTERPIECE
STUDIO BUOM snaked a city skyline down this long winding table for the opening of Hermès’ new Williamsburg location
NOTHING BUT NET
Sculptor Alexandre Arrechea created a playable basketball hoop tree with 24 nets in Toronto
OBJECTS FOR THE HOME
Alex Jay has been on a tear of finding some of the coolest design furniture and objects
This Week’s File New
This week on File New: Bit of a weird one this week. I had to pre-record an episode the night before I did another version the next day at the Clios on Culture. This episode goes over Apple Music’s new logo, McLaren’s logo, Riff’s logo, Discord age verification rolling out, Insta360 popping off in the USA. It’s got some good stuff.
Have A Great Start To Your Week
Last minute, I had to cover for an Adobe Live illustration stream last week, so I whipped up this little fox in under an hour. Was nice to doodle again.
I hope your week ends up looking something like this
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