Let us now Praise Japanese Pens
I didn’t intend to become a person who has opinions about pens. I want to be clear about that. It happened incrementally — the way most conversions happen, I suppose — not in a flash...
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Why Everything Looks the Same Now: A Small Inquiry into Design Homogeny
There’s a peculiar moment that happens when you open a new direct-to-consumer website. A faint déjà vu drifts in: the clean sans-serif font, the soothing beige palette, the strategically casual photography of a person in...
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Zara dot com: Where Functionality Goes to Die*
*wearing an impossibly chic trenchcoat. Zara’s website is not a website. Zara’s website is a conceptual art installation about the futility of human desire. It is a maze, a riddle, a mood board created by...
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QUIZ: Which Analog Hobby Is Right for You?
Finally, a quiz that tells you whether you should be knitting smug little scarves or whispering emotional confessions to a sourdough starter. Welcome to your personalized guide to escaping screen-based despair. Analog hobbies are having...
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Household Objects That Secretly Judge You
There are things in your home that love you. The blanket that holds your warmth. The mug that understands your morning mood. The one pen that always writes smoothly, even though the others seem to...
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I Will Never Stop Wearing Peter Pan Collars, No Matter How Old I Get
There are trends you adopt and trends that adopt you. Skinny jeans had their era. Balayage rose and fell like a Bravo subplot. Cottagecore trotted through the culture like a well-behaved deer. But the Peter...
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