The Taste Archive
Laura ScalcoA semi-serious archive of aesthetic curiosities and questionable instincts.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 6 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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#05 The Rockstar Isn't Dead
I grew up to the soundtrack of my dad’s Rock FM radio on the way to school every morning. Everyday, at 7am, I would nod along to old classics, my dad’s thumb marking the beats of the music against the driving wheel.
A few years later, tha...
#04 The Weirdly Diseased History of Polka Dots
There are two things I have frequently, and openly, detested. The colour grey, and polka-dots. The last few months have proven me a major hypocrite.
Polka-dots have come a long way, in my eyes at least, from their long-held association wi...
#03 The Hinge‑level Politics of Detail, Flourish and Care
One of my all-time favourite Substack notes is nothing more than five images of hinges.
Yes, door hinges.
The tiny, largely ignored piece of engineering tucked into the corner of a door, which is rarely visible… and designed to be forgo...
#02 The Strange Return of Nacre in the Age of AI
For my entire life, I have romanticised picking shells from the shore more than I've ever enjoyed actually doing it. The truth is, shell picking requires a remarkably sturdy back (you are, after all, crouching), unwavering patience (most sh...
#01 Animal Instinct: Why We Keep Coming Back to Animal Print
You’re reading № 01 of The Taste Archive — a fortnightly dissection of one very specific design obsession.
Somewhere in storage there is a leopard print jacket, size aged-six, that predated the animal print trend cycle by appr...
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