Left, Pillow Talk, 1959. Right, Life on the moon, 2040.
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The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

Not all Xs are born equal.

Pouchée ornamented types
Bonnewell antique wood letter
Futura Black
Caslon Italian

#TwitterX

The original Bad Bunny

Graphic design without computers (or women)

We partnered with our friends Mastercard to co-host a series of intimate conversations about the current state of everything: collaboration, craft, cultural transformation, + technological innovation, all impacting the ways we live and work.
#Listen 🎧
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On the margins, where art lives, humans will continue to carve and paint and hear voices and daydream, pulling out of unique lives unique work. nytimes.com/2023/03/26/opi…

I CAN PAINT SWELL

This is such a consequential milestone and initiative. Congrats to Jessica Helfand, and so proud to be one of the advisors in the company of brilliant peers.

For twenty years, Design Observer has brought you news, criticism, and visual culture from around the globe. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce a fellowship and awards program, The Design Observer Twenty. #DOTwenty #LearnMore twenty.designobserver.com

The first step would be to put more of an emphasis on hands-on classes such as art, music, sewing, woodworking, cooking, theater, auto mechanics and welding. nytimes.com/2023/01/09/opi…

More than an optical exercise, reading is a process that involves mind and eyes together, a process of abstraction ... discovering around us regularities, differences, recurrences, singularities, substitutions, redundancies. theparisreview.org/blog/2023/01/0…

Amid countless stories of AI 'scraping' the internet to undermine original work, there is this. One work inspires another. That is how the public domain feeds creativity. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom…

“At one point, someone appeared to have made a typeface, or a font, out of my handwriting. … Something about this new typeface made me feel as if the person who had created it was trying to program a piece of my soul.” nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opi…

A pathology all its own

Newsstand diptych, 2022

Made my week, and it's only Tuesday. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Happening today!

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