Designers are burnt out, disillusioned, and constantly joking that design ruined their life – but underneath the memes lies a deeper reckoning. Our US editor-at-large explores how irony became the industry’s dominant tone, and what it might mean to care again.
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Inside The Hot Girl Economy
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Graphic Design Ruined My Life
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Orford Rivermouth
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In the water before sunrise, surprisingly excellent day 👌
Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’
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Matt Berry – Take My Hand
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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
theverge.comRather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’
Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library
itsnicethat.comNot all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?
Lili Arnold
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