Good morning from Dieline’s editor-in-chief, Bill McCool. Here’s your daily side serving of design news, short musings, brand stuff, and forgotten ephemera.
Yawn. My guess is that half their employees want nothing to do with this, and the BRDNA Sequencer (bang-up job with the naming, geniuses) will be collecting dust in two years.
It will never not blow my mind that we don’t protest like this in the US.
On September 8th, a sinkhole opened up underneath Nic Cage’s home in Malibu, and now you can buy a T-shirt commemorating the pits of hell opening up. May we all be swallowed up by the devil while watching the chainsaw fight from Mandy.
Colossal just introduced me to the wonderfully weird and Renaissance-inspired world of Sara Anstis’ drawings.
Director Werner Herzog has some thoughts on AI. Obviously, you will read them in THAT VOICE.
Incidentally, when was the last time you watched Fitzcarraldo? This is the ultimate argument against AI in filmmaking.
Double incidentally! When was the last time you watched the documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo, the Les Blank-directed Burden of Dreams? The birds are in misery!
Student week marches on! Loved this adorable little juice brand from Sara Nogaledo. Give me all the bento boxes.
Here for HOT HONEY SPAM. Like, c’mon, this idea was lying around all this time?
Shout-out to Valeria Hawks for writing about the Colgate lawsuit over recyclability claims on their HDPE toothpaste tube, because, as it turns out, it might not be all that recyclable to begin with, and MRFs say they can’t distinguish it from the regular old standard tubes.
Hug an alpaca today, if you can.
-Bill