Creative culture, design oddities & internet ephemera.
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Ten Old Internet Animations that Define Millennials
“Oh god. A listicle.” If that was you when you saw this title, then too bad. My best performing content so far is a Pokemon listicle so you did this to yourself. Suck it up and read on.
Now, if you’re lucky enough to have witnessed the bir...
🛸 #22: The Computer Is Never Scared Enough
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Something's stirring. October is here, which means Halloween, everyone's favourite holiday, is creeping closer, and your monthly dose of the biza...
When Your Love Story has a Creative Director
Being hired for your voice can come with a very specific idea of what you should say. The interesting moment arrives when a writer changes the plan and the client has to decide whether to follow.
Last week, in Dating Apps Built the Swipe....
The Swipe Is Having an Identity Crisis
Dating-app advertising used to be fairly easy to recognise.
There was usually an attractive stranger, a mildly suggestive line and a strategically placed phone screen showing two people having the most natural conversation ever recorded in...
🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #21
This was all over August:
- Apple released recently a stop-motion Mac mini ad, and then released behind-the-scenes footage showing people who are sculpting and painting the elements. It feels like the making-of almost becomes part o...
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Creative culture, design oddities & internet ephemera.
I live on a diet of energy drinks and overly ambitious side projects, all while aggressively kerning fonts and wrestling with colour palettes like they owe me money.
Millenial Teenager who heals through memes, creativity & observing everyday internet culture. â¨
Kris Litson is a New Zealand-born, Aussie-raised, German-resident nerd that is actually a series of neuroses wearing a human suit. He writes about things that annoy him. Which is a shockingly broad category. Also games sometimes.
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