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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #20
A month of Boomer Meals, fast-food lamps and culture stuck in the 90s.
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The Era of SVGA (Sexy Video Game Advertising)
The gloriously horny, wildly misguided age of video game advertising.
 • The Orbit and Kris Litson
🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #19
June was basically the internet opening 47 tabs, spilling Kool-Aid on a CD-ROM, and calling it culture.
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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #18
Disco-ball logos, offline internet energy, D&AD Pencil standouts, Cannes AI drama, copier-scanned McDonald’s, and a few glorious browser tabs from a…
 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Yilma
My Pokémoan
The Devolution of Design
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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch - Issue #17
Hello! We’re back with another monthly bundle of strange ideas, beautiful nonsense, design detours, and internet artifacts that probably should not…
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Stranger Things has Happened:
When Nostalgia gets Nostalgic
 • The Orbit and Kris Litson
The $4,000 Quantum Wellness Gadget
The rise of quantum wellness culture
 • The Orbit and Paula Smiri
🛸 The Orbit Dispatch - Issue #16
A scan of culture in motion—where brand strategy, internet nostalgia, and digital randomness collide.
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I went to Gamescom LAN without being a gamer. Everyone noticed.
Speedruns, sleeping strangers, and one brief moment of competence at a table football tournament.
 • The Orbit and Paula Smiri
Frutiger Aero: A Guide to the Internet's Most Optimistic Aesthetic
Bubbles, goldfish, glowing orbs and dewy meadows — Frutiger Aero was the design language that promised the future would be beautiful. Where it came from…
 • The Orbit and Sarah Yilma
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