Happy Friday! Excited for the first Design Cache! Gonna build this out as it goes along, so we’re starting sloppy and will refine week to week.
But let me know what you enjoy and what you don’t enjoy. Also I’m learning how to use this text editor. I appreciate you being here.
Creative Stories
Some design, tech, creative industry, and fun stories I’ve come across
New Emojis Announced for 2027 - Featuring a cracked face, a pickle (not the cucumber) and a net
The Tomorrowland stage is the biggest they’ve ever made - let’s just hope it doesn’t burn down like last year
The “Open To Work” LinkedIn Badge Works - it just FEELS super cringe
Everything’s better together - Brands are learning the best move is to collaborate instead of compete
This cute little desktop companion advances his career the more you type throughout the day. So cute, I just worry about security vulnerabilities.
Jimothy the raccoon isn’t AI - …just most of the videos you see of him are
Design Doubloons
Here’s some design gems I’ve come across in the wild
THE SOPRAN-OH-NO’S
Watching it for the first time (no spoilers plz), and we were laughing at the horrible FX in the season 4 premiere. Was there no texture effects available in 2002?
WHAT SERVICES?
Did a double take when I saw this on a truck on the highway. The importance of scalable type & kerning. F*cking Services…
ROCKY’S GLOVES
The curtain above the bar at “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway used rubber gloves instead of fabric
This Week’s Videos
Posted 3 videos this week. It was a busy one.
This Week’s File New
Don’t have the cutdown for you yet, but here’s the unedited replay
This week on File New: a $23.8 million verdict for “brand dressing” infringement, 10 years later they updated the La La Land poster, a new Logo Zero from the 1800’s
Also in this episode:
A breakdown of the Coca-Cola rebrand (different from the above short)
Font of the Week: PD Donut was the winner
After Effects updates + a new Premiere plugin for keyframes
2 new type projects built to hide from AI
That’s All For Now!
Let me know what you think