Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting

Well, with the rise of convenience, we lost rituals. You don't even have to cook anymore. You can just order it to your door. And it's like in an age where media is being skewed, where do we look to find originality in media? When everything is on the Internet, how do we form identity off of it? What's our offline identity? That's a forever questio... See more

Mar. 3, 2020

The Tyranny of Terrazzo

Will the millennial aesthetic ever end?

By Molly Fischer

Illustration by Fala Atelier

Illustration: Fala Atelier

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You walk beneath a white molded archway. You’ve entered a white room.

A bask... See more

The mind-numbing repetition of chain stores, massive gas stations, self-storage facilities, and fast food joints has me and my husband nearly ready to take the longer but more scenic routes from now on. We are at a loss to understand the seemingly insatiable desire to develop every possible parcel of land along the highway and stuff it with the sam... See more

As anything scales too effectively - from fashion to restaurants to music - the market opens for more non-scalable alternatives. Once Starbucks opens on every block, many of us crave the artisanal coffee shop. Once our favorite Italian restaurant becomes a chain of three, we grow tired of it. Why? First, so much of what we buy and do is tied up in ... See more