The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth, NY Times

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo, Curbed

• Subversion as creative strategy, The Sociology of Business

• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers [PDF]

• From Intern to CMO: What You Actually Do At Every Level of Marketing, Marketing is Hard!

• Why everyone can (and should) be a great storyteller, Figma

• Six memos for the future of digital creation, Figma
  Interesting EOY post - future forward

• When is it Time to Rebrand, Print Mag

• Adobe Content Authenticity Ushers in a New Era of Transparency, Attribution & Protection for Creators, Print Mag

• Why Generational Marketing is Dead—and What Comes Next, Print Mag
  Been seeing quite a few articles lately about how social is moving towards culture drivers and becoming more community-oriented rather than passive and these trends. How does this relate to architecture though? Bridging B2C thoughts into B2B is … difficult

• Fresh Sets Examines the Fine Art of Nail Art, hyperallergic

• Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself, NYTimes

• In Defense of Temporary Obsessions, Life Annotated

• I Trained at an Amazon Center in Hangzhou. You’d Be Surprised What They Think of Trump., NYT

• Radical Change isn’t Free, The Guardian

• What Does the AuraCamera 6000 See?, Believer

• Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign, The Hill

• ‘No Cake, No Entry’: More Than 1,000 Picnic to Celebrate the Love of Cake, NYTimes

• Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order, NY Times

• ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck., Nieman Lab

• The Age of Contrast, Crown Creative

• Demystifying Hospitality Strategy, Crown Creative

I’ve been impressed by Crown’s design work for a while, but they’ve relaunched their website and the writing on these two pieces is great. They offer a unique point of view and are engaging.

• The Language of Abortion in Trump’s America, Pring Mag

• Understanding Trump, University of Chicago Press

ENDING "TIMELESSNESS" AS A VALUE, For Scale

Santa Maria, Places

An NYC locksmith has become a viral sensation for turning subway tokens into keys, Gothamist

• I used to cut my keys here just for the novelty of it

Tracing the fascist roots of the Nazi demonstration in the Short North, Matter News

The View From Tokyo: the fascinating origins, and triumphant resurgence, of Risograph in Japan, Its Nice That

• Elizabeth Goodspeed on the power and perils of the mockup, It’s Nice THat

• A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots, Washington Post

  • I really like ai - makes writing so very much easier - but I have been avoiding the data on how much water and electricity it takes. ugh.

• Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts, Hyperallergic

I swear I still read stuff, I’m just not archiving as avidly

• Language Barrier: Rethinking How We Talk About Architecture, Azure

I’ve been reading stuff, I promise! I’m just not recording it very well.

• Les Wexner’s Second Life: How The Epstein-Tarnished Billionaire Is Quietly Reshaping Ohio, Forbes

• Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city, BBC

• He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, NY Times

1. Neglected middle class may be key to growing stagnant art market, The Art Newspaper