Side Salad: Some News! I Made a Blood Baby To Harvest its Organs.
July 24, 2026
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.
The time for spicy ketchup is now, and this is a swell bottle from the folks at Land.
Oh, nifty. They finally made the millennial golf cart for The Villages (jk, jk, no one under 50 will ever be able to retire).
“Hey, Brian, what have you been up to? Oh, you cloned yourself and made a ‘blood baby’ so you could harvest its organs? That’s nice.”
All wine bottles should be coated in black wax with a rainbow layer beneath. It beats a chateau or, I dunno, feet and kangaroos.
Now on the endangered species list, salads.
Yikes: “We grew as AI grew. We grew up together. Adults don’t have the same life experience that we do,” one 17-year-old girl told researchers. “They don’t understand how advanced and how intense AI is.”
For sale: supervillain desk.
Canadian ciggy packaging goes unfathomably hard.
Dearest lovers of airbrush art, you’d love a copy of Michael English’s 3D Eye.
Late to the party, I suppose, but 80s Paul Simon + Vampire Weekend’s brand of cringe = Mr. Jambo.
It’s Friday. Go forth and summer.
-Bill