Designer Things

Seapunk didn’t die—it just learned to swim in deeper waters. I used to think the whole aquatic internet aesthetic thing peaked somewhere around 2012

I used to think grandmillennial style was just, you know, young people ironically buying doilies. Turns out the aesthetic runs deeper than that—way deeper, actually.

I used to think political campaign design was just about slapping red, white, and blue on everything and calling it patriotic. Turns out—and this took

I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit staring at Delta 8 product labels in dispensaries, trying to decode what feels like a visual language

I used to think Op Art was just about making your eyes hurt. Turns out, the movement that exploded in the 1960s—technically born earlier, but who’

Health Goth started as a Tumblr joke in 2013, and honestly, nobody expected it to outlive that first summer. Two artists—Chris Cantino and Jeremy Scott—launched

I used to think Polynesian patterns were just beautiful decorations—you know, the kind of thing you’d see on a surfboard or a tiki mug in some beach-themed restaurant.

I used to think Dadaism was just about mustaches on the Mona Lisa. Turns out, the whole movement—born in Zurich around 1916, give or take a few months

I used to think Celtic knots were just something you’d see on a tourist mug in Dublin. Turns out, those interwoven patterns—developed somewhere between

I used to think toy packaging was just about bright colors and cartoon characters. Turns out, there’s this whole language happening on those boxes—a