Person
Eugene Whang
26 pieces · 3 connections
Connections
Each line is a relationship Brain Rot Report drew in a specific piece, in that piece's words.
- Specs
Great design refuses its brief; Snap executed its brief perfectly and that is the problem
Source piece → - Meta
Consumer objects that normalize surveillance succeed partly because they are beautiful, and beauty depoliticizes the harm
Source piece → - The Devil Wears Prada 2
Film wardrobes function as preference archives while haute couture process represents a different order of intentionality entirely
Source piece →
Coverage
- Phil Schiller Exits Apple. The Post-Jobs Era Is Finally Over.
- The Galaxy Z Flip 8 Wants You to Leave It Closed
- The $2,000 Sweater and the Invisibility Shirt
- ASICS Laces Up Ballet Shoes for the Track
- Tesla's Flush Door Handles Hid the Same Sin as Walmart Pay
- Jony Ive's Protégé and the Designed Panopticon of Meta Glasses
- Whoop's Screenless Look Is Luxury in Disguise
- Wardrobe as Relic, Fashion as Archive
- The Brick and Zoox's Wheelless Taxi Want Opposite Things
- JJJJound x Porter and Vans' Wallabee Moc Sell Craft, Not Logos
- Voice Mode, Wearables, and the Body as Interface
- New Balance's 991v2 and the Nostalgia Industrial Complex
- The $6,880 Phone and the Luxury Void
- The RingConn 3 Is Pretty. It Just Can't Do Its Job.
- Cameras Off: Privacy as the New Luxury Wearable
- New Balance's Niobium Is Three Shoes Wearing One
- Victoria Song Wore Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses. It Felt Like Spying.
- Cyborg Cockroaches from Japan and China Preview Apple's Tiny Gadget Fetish
- Off-White's L/AB c/o and the Star-Shaped Zit Patch Sell the Same Thing
- World Cup Design: When Wayfinding Is Ideology
- Craft in the Age of the Machine-Made Everything
- Radio Is Back. It Never Left. It Just Changed Rooms.
- JiyongKim Skips the Runway. Snap's Specs Can't Skip the Face.
- Sneakers Ate the Museum. Now What?
- Nigel Cabourn Died. Salomon and ACW Owe Him a Debt.
- Designed to Last: Marc Newson's Luggage Problem