At the Cooper Hewitt a few weeks ago I saw a piece by Tom Sachs. A ghetto blaster made from a cinder block. Love it or hate it, Sachs’ work is unmistakably of this moment. Theatrically, defiantly human.
Designers are feeling pressured to adopt and leverage AI. Conversely, we’re seeing more and more demand for distinctly human experiences.
Amazing things are happening with AI. But the fatigue is real already and it has led to a craving of things that are demonstrably human in nature.
In certain scenarios, people readily question the origin of what they are consuming before giving it the time of day. We used to design with consideration to attention span. Now we must design to consider this new paradigm.
Plato hondo: a deep bowl, and the idea that depth runs through everything: depth of flavour, of culture, of experience.
Ondo is a soup concept in Mexico City, currently in testing.
Three wordmarks wound up as contenders. This chunky, coarse, collage-esque one hit the right notes. Bowls within. See the other two at the bottom.
Sound — Transmitter is the fourth album by Cut Worms
Thought — Is AI destroying commercial creativity or levelling the playing field?
Visual — Anatomy of AI: The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
Bolster fixes the gap between how good you are and how you show up. Know someone whose identity is holding them back? Let us know, maybe we can help.
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