We love a staircase-inspired identity for a park over here at Side Salad HQ, so good on you, Stout SF.
I think the ugliest thing I set eyes on every gosh-darn year is the Coachella “poster” announcing this year’s fest. To be fair, I don’t know how you present that much information without looking like a total mess, but for funsies, I would love to see the AI flyer version of this. Also, I aged out of Indio a long time ago, and I’m not sure I ever aged in, frankly, but the Dua Lipa-over-Madonna disrespect is diabolical. The most radical thing Lipa has ever done is start a book podcast.
Ely puts the Memphis in bodycare.
Mike Reed of Reed Words breaks down the meaning of “maybe it’s Maybelline,” and how the brand blew up its ambiguously great slogan. Maybelline got way into their own head; it need not be this deep, as the kids say.
Here’s a book about how “America runs on Adderall,” and they even went with a prescription-bottle-inspired cover.
Hoo boy alert. This Shanghai restaurant(yes, that one) will let you engineer your own Jensen Huang extramarital affair photo. A+ marketing.
Typography inspired by a Pasadena deli? Sold. Great interview from Charlotte with “Pasadeli’s” creator, Jasper McMahon.
The world’s best-selling toy just got a redesign. Don’t worry, y’all, it looks very much the same.
AOL core: People are big mad about... a studio rebooting a popular 28-year-old rom-com that was also the best AOL advertisement ever; however, the Nora Ephron-helmed You’ve Got Mail is also a remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner, which, for my money, is the real best Christmas movie starring Jimmy Stewart. And that movie was based on a 1937 Hungarian play. Not to mention there are at least five other pictures that have used this setup. Everything old is old again.
Spotted this on Aquarium Drunkard, but you should start your day with a 30-minute cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car“ that turns into a gorgeous drone. Stick with it.
Maybe meet me another day in the garden.
-Bill