Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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When every other designer is scrambling to keep up with the ever-shifting progressive liberal decency mandates, Velez’s refusal to shut her mouth is inspiring. Very few avant-garde American designers feel as authentically American as Velez.
Adam Lehrer • Who’s Afraid of Elena Velez?
Any kind of accomplishment, or output of creativity, or this amazing thing that you’ve done or been able to reach—it’s hard to take credit for it. It’s more that you just tapped into something that’s already there. You’re just allowing something through, like a connection to whatever channel of creativity you’re tuning into. So, you’re just a... See more
THOM BETTRIDGE • Matthew M. Williams' Modern Timepiece
For a magazine and brand, you want to create as many connection points as possible in the service of hype and media recognition. As a consumer, you primarily just want one person or a specific audience to appreciate you, let’s say your crush or friends. It’s much more targeted. Of course, some magazines and brands act like consumers in an effort to... See more
Claire Koron Elat • The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
Fashion runs on these really strange net 60, net 30, net whatever, store pay payment terms. We didn't understand all of this at first. When we first started PD, we asked for a deposit when someone placed an order, that helped at the beginning. But over time, stores overturned those rules. No one really pays on the dot. The reason a lot of brands... See more
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the twentieth century.
The Federalist Papers
Untangling the Mystery of the World’s First Rooftop Solar Panel - bellingcat
Foeke Postmabellingcat.com
nothing really to gain from this article, just very interesting, and i had no idea that there were even mentions let alone prototypes of solar energy like this as early as the 1880s. also hilarious that at the time, they said it wouldn't be commercially viable for some of the same challenges we face today: energy storage.
also cool that this all happened on Nassau and Maiden Lane, just a few blocks from my apartment — “FiDi”, as we call it now, is the epitome of Lower Manhattan, as it should be called, and it's a beautiful place, with massively rich history
maybe this is some reference imagery for “Lower Manhattan”, the brand
Upstart
upstart.com
For Coach, the biggest brand in the Tapestry portfolio, the show—a display of oversized leather blazers and pointy-toe jelly flats embossed all over with Cs, with J.Lo in the front row—is a customer acquisition cost.
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more