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.
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Whoopsy doo-doo: your toilet paper just got $$$ for no good reason whatsoever.
Can we please stop “rebranding“ restaurants, please? I can’t believe someone was paid a legitimate sum of money to remove “pizza” from Pizza Hut’s signage and replace it with a football, and now this gimmick is getting headlines. Incidentally, this is a Raymond Carver appreciation post, too, btw.
Adrian Tomine did the illustrations and visual identity for Rumble Studios, which reminded me that I haven’t read one of his books in almost 20 years? Must get to fixing that.
No disrespect to Birdie, but it’s really starting to feel like McDonald’s is leaning on its backbench a little too hard.
The Trump administration just made it harder for the public to weigh in on potential data centers. Boo. Hiss.
Looks like David is expanding its protein universe and getting in the protein shake game.
Oof. FILIPIÑANA looks amazing.
Where are the horse girls when you need them?
Tim Curry did the rock, and gosh bless him for it.
Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab.
-Bill