40 Trillion DPI is turning 50! Our fiftieth episode is coming up and we want you to be a part of it. Have a burning question you'd like to ask us? Or, I guess, pose to the larger 40 Trillion DPI community? We're doing an AMA! Record a question at memo.fm/40trilliondpi (don't forget to say your name) and we'll answer as many as we can in the 50th birthday episode. Thanks for listening! We love you!
This week, we put on a stretched out vintage lacy thong, an Everlane Oxford shirt, Steve Madden heels, a Gen Z vaguely bug-like nose cuff, and… basketball shorts as we say goodbye to all the clean girls, office sirens, bubble skirts, furry boots, scene queens, and all the other dash cores as we say warmly welcome the Skibidi brain rot of automated AI films about slugs. +++ Music in this episode from Human Gazpacho. Theme music by Lobo Loco. Outro by Mello C. All via Free Music Archive....
This week, we're joined by "octopus of knowledge/AI robot", Bryan Lehrer! Bryan guided us on a deep dive into gravestone aesthetics and somehow segued into an existential reckoning of what designers are capable of? It's a wild ride!
This week we navigate a treacherous path down the “ethnic food aisle” of jewel-toned squiggle packaging with the guidance of It’s Nice That’s Roshita Thomas AND we traverse the AI-generated 2024 butthole of Verse.surf and are incepted, smooth and edgeless, into the AI-within-AI generated 90s teen bedroom wormhole of our dreams.
This week, we get Canva-ified with Instagram's new creator tools, we are hot on the case of international rings of AI slop shops, and we spend an afternoon in our plague masks and corsets at the design Ren Faire!
This week—on 40 Trillion DPI America Design Carnage Edition—we get into the brief life of a briefly created logo, we consider word art in official government docs, we learn about online dating streaming services (RIP), and we consider the sartoriality of the postal service uniform! ALSO: we made a cool new hat! It says “free fonts” on it, embroidered in an authentic hand-drawn free font. It is black. It is a “dad hat.” See the hats for yourself and find the link to buy at designfreaks.cafe or on...
This week we get lost in the cursed wilderness of legalese trying to update our subscription to Adobe Bear Trap’s AI Swiss typography generator AND we get social at the design gym with the Mondo 2000 cyber phreak fractal polycule.
This week we frolic into the abundant wilderness to write poems with our tattooed hands in monochrome Notion, on our Daylight Computers and we are healed! We sip the viscous black liquid dripping from America’s Mayor, and we are healed! AND we take a five minute pit stop that takes 36 hours in the twisted metal symphony of the Helios House Speedway Express gas station concert hall, and we are healed!
Hi everyone! This week we talk about IKEA's brazen theft of artist Tim Lahan's work for their SF food hall; we celebrate weirdo interstitial illustrations in the AutoDesk "State of Design and Make 2024" report; AND we step into the path of social contract totality at the recent total solar eclipse! Thanks for listening! Find us on Instagram at: instagram.com/40000000000000dpi Or at Substack: 40trilliondpi.substack.com Music for this episode by Human Gazpacho....
This week we’re joined by our friend, Holiday Black. Holiday is a concept-forward art director with a passion for youth culture, creativity, and their two cats. They’ve been art directing for the past four years, and have had the opportunity to work on alcohol, fast food, cars, fashion, and footwear. Outside of work, Holiday can be found crafting, looking for hot springs, reading a book, or googling whether or not mercury is in retrograde. You can find Holiday’s work at www.holiday.black. We tal...
This week we spend our life savings on numerological sports betting meal deal life hacks at whop.com; and we quit school to work on our sports betting meal deal life hack startup with a grant from Molly Mielke’s Moth Fund; and then we bathe in the bisexual lighting cast by a full screen view of Monotype’s neuroscience type reports. Turns out we were right all along!
This week we bring fine art to our fine faces with Marina Abramovic’s new line of spiritually-invigorating skincare products. We get a head start on our 2024 thumb fitness goals with T-9 in our TV at CES. AND we go into existential crisis mode in a post-creator world with whatever Metalabel is.
This week we talked to David Chathas: a graphic designer, type designer, educator, sometimes artist who would have rather been a UFC fighter. We talked to Dave about lots of things you can and cannot drink: Bud Light (comma) the history of, high end baby skin care products, energy drinks that look like automotive fluids, and automotive fluids that look like energy drinks—we also discussed the etiquette of lurking online, AND the woke Kansas state license plate fiasco (brought to you by Canva)! Y...
This week we delve into the odd history of fax memes; we try and see if there is any there there in the Figma state of the designer report; we learn about the weird things people are trying to do to sea slugs; we visit Kim K in her 7-11/office at the top of the Empire State Building, and we try and get our dating-app eggs to hatch before they're cooked. It is so confusing! Thanks for joining us!
This week we look into the medieval street scene that is the internet and ask ourselves, where did all these jesters come from? And why are several of them named Brian Jordan Alvarez? AND we take a trip to the best of all possible techno-optimistic worlds with Marc A-seven-n.
NOTE: We accidentally swapped in the wrong audio on this, so we're reposting!!! Hey baybees! We're back! In this week's episode, we pour one out for Burkey Belser, the designer of the original Nutrition Facts label, and how raw information can compete with raw obfuscation. It's a rabbit hole! Also we talk for way too long about Humane AI's AI pin and what a future without screens, apps—or desire itself—might look like!
This week—we dodge the floating pharmaceutical logo lockup with medical spokesperson, lady gaga, we liquidate our savings buying virtual ice cream for Pinkydoll, we compare tactical battle strategies with I Can Talk Barbie, we stick our arms into tiny black suits to visit the puppet pet cemetery—AND we also might have talked about the glassdoor drama! Only one way (for us) to find out!
This week we wait for a flight in Meta’s shiny new Threads lounge, we are led by Gilbert the floating head through a very special video essay about the state of Graphic Design, we are led by an AI chat-panion we’re calling “Figgy” through Figma’s annual IRL conference, CONFIG , and we see what happens when you put an obscure piece of film history in the Magic Chef . Check out some visual references and an episode breakdown at https://40trilliondpi.substack.com/...
This week, we take our rightful place as characters in the Sanrio Cinematic Universe, we embrace life on the grid at a digital nomad spreadsheet cafe, and we head to the abandoned SEARS in Second Life to try and buy a hat.
This week we go grocery shopping with AI Drake, we take a walking tour of every single place you’ve ever seen on AirBnB, we check on Dril as his native Twitter habitat collapses around him, and we join a larger-than-expected study group at LoFi Girl’s house. AMMAAR RESHI'S CHATGPT INSTACART ORDER: https://twitter.com/ammaar/status/1645934107304787968 Jordan Pearson/Motherboard, "A Viral AI-Generated Drake Song by ‘Ghostwriter’ Has Millions of Listens": https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj5gw/hear...
Bay Area friends! Or people who are really into traveling! We're releasing a broadsheet poster/publication called: “Go Deep/What Your Favorite Photoshop Tool Says About You” and to help usher this poster into the world, we've asked a few friends to give short presentations/talks/performances/visuals on the theme of “Odd Pedagogy.” We will also introduce the publication, maybe show some strange educational movie montages, and DJ YNG GMA will play far out PBS-core tunes to round out the evening. S...
This week, we travel to the mid-Pacific garbage island created by $30 Million worth of Funko Pops; we raise all kinds of wrenches in salute to Tradeswoman magazine; we contemplate Spotify's recent efforts to TikTok itself to death, and we sit down with America's hottest invasive species: Copi! Follow us at https://www.instagram.com/40000000000000dpi/ and check out: https://40trilliondpi.substack.com/
This week, we talk inscrutable type design for coin-sized albums; biblically accurate unicode glyphs and the bizarro world Zazzle battles. For episode description and more, visit our Substack: 40trilliondpi.substack.com Andddd, follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/40000000000000dpi Thanks babies!
This week we walk down the CGI pathways of the uncanny valley where we meet real people trying to make people think they’re AI, we meet fake AI that other people are trying to make real people, we meet a very blue person stuck somewhere on Na’Vi way—and then we talk about mahjong! We're @40000000000000dpi on Instagram—and, if you want rundowns of the big ideas from each episode, extended show notes and outtakes, and other bonus content, follow us on Substack at 40trilliondpi.substack.com ! Thank...
This week: we get into the erotic fiction compilation, Look Homeward Erotica and the history of marketing the lives of "real housewives;" we take trip into the surreal hellscape that is the Goth Target inside Horizon Worlds; and finally, we time travel back back back to the origins of FABRIC as clothing and as tool and technology! Thanks for joining us! LINKS TO THINGS WE DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE VIKINGS: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/no-wool-no-vikings/ medieval.eu/viking-sails/ https://w...
This week we talk with Caslon Kahle a physical archivist, donation coordinator, musician, low-key wizard, and wanderer from the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine) of over 1...
On today’s show, we’re joined by designers-extraordinaires, Rory King and Brenden Lovejoy. Rory is a multidisciplinary designer, art director, and writer based in New York City. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy Of Art, and has collaborated with artists, architects, curators, and musicians in addition to working with various agencies and companies such as 2×4, Sony Music Entertainment, Instrument, Look Studios, OnePlus, 321 Gallery, and Cranbrook Art Museum. He is currently a Principal ...
This week, we look wistfully back at the recently passing summer of cyclopean fast food, negative-freedom-algorithm-training, and artificial artificial intelligent rap-fluencers. Summer’s almost over! Let’s get into it!
Y'all! We are so excited and honored to have the opportunity to talk with Silas Munro (of Polymode) about the amazing exhibition, "Strikethrough", he co-curated at the Letterform Archive. Strikethrough features over 100 objects (including broadsides, buttons, signs, t-shirts, posters, and ephemera) by ACT UP, Amos Kennedy, Jr., Sister Corita Kent, Emory Douglas, Favianna Rodriguez, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, W. E. B. Du Bois, and many many more. Make sure to check out the show, get in on the...
This week we lose composure over the new Gmail compose button, we vigilante-creep on anono-racist hackers, and we share a newly redesigned six pack (or ten) with a very sweet Japanese businessman who seemed perfectly fine when we left him to catch his train home.
