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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Everyone’s faces have the same...glow. Glass skin, clean girl, glazed girl, cold girl. Everyone’s phone’s the same (and have since 2007 when the iPhone first shipped).
Everyone’s drinking the same amount of water, because ofc everyone’s water bottle looks the same (the Stanley Cup...the status water bottle as talisman of late-capitalism hyper-consu... See more
Everyone’s drinking the same amount of water, because ofc everyone’s water bottle looks the same (the Stanley Cup...the status water bottle as talisman of late-capitalism hyper-consu... See more
Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?
Another example that comes to mind is this David Perell’s series of observations about “everything looking the same now”; in this case, company logos all moving to a narrow band of sans serif fonts. There are many possible explanations here, like homogenous design tools, but the Occam’s Razor answer is simply that these brands have global audiences... See more
Alex Danco • Have You Ever Seen a Goth Downtown?
A decade or so ago, brands shifted from increasing value of their products through utility, competitive comparison, and creative advertising to endowing products they made with aesthetic, sustainability credentials, a story of artisanship and provenance, and/or a community in order to give their products identity and singularity. (Virgil Abloh made
... See moreAna Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
