2026-01-29 03:19:13
Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/…
Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/…
Snap launches a wholly-owned subsidiary called Specs Inc. for its upcoming AR glasses, in a bid to facilitate minority investment and offer distinct branding (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869210/snap-specs-smart-ar-glasses-new-subsi…
The Observer launches its first paywall, with digital subscriptions priced at £16 per month, and updates its masthead to a logo that echoes its earlier branding (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/observe…
re the nonsense units on kettles
most kettles are made by a company called Strix from the Isle of Man
https://strix.com
with superficial design features and branding added by breville or whoever
you can probably find the strix name on the side of the power connector of your kettle’s base
anyway…
i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy
Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL
The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
https://www.theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-business-partnership-takeover-announc…
Podcasten Design Kan kŸrer en skŸn julekalender hvor vært Kristina May udspŸrger naturfilosofi Morten GrŸnborg om universets og livets sammensætning. Jeg er vild med GrŸnborgs begejstring for emnet og hans evne til at forklare komplekse ting. Afsnittene er ikke så lange (6-8 minutter typisk), så man kan fint lytte med fra starten:
Norway's largest Pokémon Trading Card Game database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk.
#design #illustration #portfolio #Pokemon #branding
JFC. I always assumed that acquisition had just fizzled out. @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115736145336445402
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Branding Iron:
🎵 Right, Tight and Out of Sight
#BrandingIron
https://staxvolt.bandcamp.com/track/right-tight-and-out-of-sight
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AwwsXkh0YmtS50C1NnHYN
"Thanks to a series of relay stops (to swap electric tractors, drivers and trailers), each electric truck travels a daily distance of 810 km on the North loop and 704 km on the South loop. This system makes it possible to cover long distances without stopping the load."
https://www.renault-…
Branding Trump a neocon does a disservice to the label (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/11/rubio-trump-nationalism-neoconservatism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p21#a260111p21
Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
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I'm passing this survey about names for the co-op to some friends... and every time they face a non-English sounding name... they all say this same phrase (with small variations):
> It doesn't sound **international** enough / at all.
Honestly... I find it quite sad. I know ultimately it doesn't matter what I think personally, we still need a good & catchy name (it's not in our hands to make people think differently)...
Anyway, I believe UK & American #imperialism have fucked our brains and removed so much creativity & freedom from our minds...
Note: this issue is disconnected from the specific names of our survey. I've seen it too with names of very successful projects (but unknown to the people I was talking to); for example with "Kubernetes".
#naming #branding
Hey #Fedora community. A friend of a friend is looking for a Fedora10 pin and/or a sticker or some other merch with the Fedora10 branding on it. Can you help me with that? I know 2008 was ages ago:)
The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility (Colby Hall/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everyth…
The City of Wauwatosa is looking for new branding/logo design and floated running a "contest" and even posted what appears to be AI art examples.
People are not having it. Many comments were negative of the AI slop and many said "Hire actual designers!" so that's a bright spot this week.
#tosa
Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…
Dell brings back XPS branding with the new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, which address some complaints about the previous XPS design but lack dedicated GPU support (Rich Woods/XDA Developers)
https://www.xda-developers.com/dell-xps-back-alright/
This is one of the additional electric ‘beer boats’ in #Utrecht that has just been put into service. It is loaded directly from the lorry with beer and other beverages, ready to be delivered to bars and restaurants in time for a busy Saturday evening.
There are now three (one electric since 2010, an older diesel-powered one has been retrofitted and a new one has been built. There’s also an…
Norway's largest Pokémon Trading Card Game database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk.
#design #illustration #portfolio #Pokemon #branding
U.S. imperialism: different branding, same payload.
#Imperialism #USPol #US #Humor