"Why Cannes Still Matters," by Someone Going to Cannes

I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.

Haha! Everyone involved is thick

it’s almost as if making the search box and the ai box the same box isn’t a great idea, box-wise

Hey I know this is a generalization based on one person's experience (mine), but I'm going to need you to accept it unquestioningly as a meaningful societal/cultural indicator

I don't think the "making up stuff that sounds convincing" machine and the "analysing medical imagery" machine should be the same machine

Sorry I was multitasking, and none of the tasks was this one

This is not wrong.

Why not make things others will want to be nostalgic about

We are living in a golden era of product design, in that everything is constantly mid-design, even post-launch. Perpetual beta. Does the product work the way it is supposed to? Small-brain thinking! When everything is kind of broken, everything is an opportunity to keep designing.

Twin Peaks × LCD Soundsystem: a video mashup of Dance Yrself Clean and the Twin Peaks theme music. Perfect. A damn fine cup of coffee, even. [youtube.com]

Typographische Mitteilungen, Vol 25, No 09, September 1928. Cover design by Anton Lenhardt designreviewed.com/artefacts/ty...

Attention, Turtle! poster by Frantisek Zalesak, 1972

KitKat would have been funnier

And the Strait of Hormuz, which did not open

To celebrate Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet at 30(ish) – I’ve reproduced a brilliant article about the art direction of the film from the April 1997 issue of The Face. wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Giovanni Pintori and his definitive visual language for Olivetti designreviewed.com/giovanni-pin...

Not to brag but

A golden era

Olympic, The Official Magazine of the XII Winter Games, Lake Placid, 1980 designreviewed.com/artefacts/ol...

🚨 INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TIP ALERT 🚨

For St. David's Day, presenting this delightful British Railways poster from 1963 promoting holidays in North Wales, with artwork by Reginald Lander. "Unsurpassed in its variety" and "you get there quickly by train", it boasts. It still is, and you still can 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

You know what's really wild is that we once had the chance to opt out of all of this

Saying this as someone who grew up far more into Star Wars, the split on this poll is absolutely correct

Underground Music Magazine, the 1980s. Designed by Rod Clark. designreviewed.com/archive/ #underground #musicmagazine #rodclark #80sdesign #typography

Zuckerberg has finally gone from Hot or Not to Cold or Not

Wait hear me out

Idea 53, 1962. Cover design by Ivan Chermayeff. #ivanchermayeff www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...

Brum folks, I'd love your thoughts on the arts / culture / creative / design scene and impact of our city... 10 q's, 5 mins! x www.surveymonkey.com/r/QLDG2H9

No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic

some days at work I reach a point where if one more person talks to me about AI, I'm going to make them donate to a charity of my choosing

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

BIG NEW THING! For the last few months I’ve been building free interactive business tools and they’re live today!! There’s a Bookkeeping Wizard (to do complex bookkeeping without Quickbooks!), and tools for pricing work, budgeting, and more! library.studioworks.app

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

I was just using Acrobat for, you know, print production, but realised I should have, of course, been generating a podcast. #sillyme

I've been working in software and content for like 20 years and these are some of the most batshit requirements for a job I've seen job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...

My first @its-nice-that.bsky.social column of the year is about faking imperfection (fauxbi-sabi) and what it means to have a resurgence of analog aesthetics without analog tools 📷 www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Point: medieval life was unrelenting horror, a daily onslaught of ignorance, barbarity, and pestilence Counterpoint: you got to knock off work when the sun went down

Art Price in Minneapolis has the equipment to print on t-shirts and will do it for free if you bring your own clothing! "You don’t know your role yet, maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.” #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #DefundICE

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Hello, I’m Jas! I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂‍↕️ I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures. I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚 #portfolioday

oh no apple music no no no

It is Super Bowl Sunday for scaries

"We're excited to share two creative directions with you today...."

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

The manipulation of the Epstein files by the Trump administration to falsely implicate political rivals is not only extraordinarily malevolent — it’s also extraordinarily inept. Surely some kind of crime is being committed here by the DOJ

The notion that "95% of people who responded to the survey are against this" can be glossed as "no clear consensus" is even more absurd than the usual "pretty damn absurd" usual baseline for uk politics.