In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more

probably the most important essay you need to read as a designer, creator, founder for the upcoming era “in a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. in a world of abundance, we treasure taste.” https://t.co/vKcr1zqKtT

Hailey and her team took a page out of the well-trodden Trippin’ with Tarte-style brand trip playbook: create desire by limiting access. That strategy worked in the boom times of the last decade, but in our current era of economic anxiety and wealth inequality, it’s giving young people, to quote one Reddit commenter, “the absolute ick.”