🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #18

Hello! We’re back with your monthly dose of the bizarre and delightful in creative culture, design oddities, and internet curiosities.

Jun 1 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Ylm

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May 2026

My Pokémoan

The Devolution of Design

May 22 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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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…

May 4 • The Orbit

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April 2026

Stranger Things has Happened:

When Nostalgia gets Nostalgic

Apr 25 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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The $4,000 Quantum Wellness Gadget

The rise of quantum wellness culture

Apr 18 • The Orbit and Paula Smiri

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch - Issue #16

A scan of culture in motion—where brand strategy, internet nostalgia, and digital randomness collide.

Apr 1 • The Orbit

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March 2026

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.

Mar 26 • The Orbit and Paula Smiri

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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 a bright future.

Mar 18 • The Orbit and Sarah Ylm

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #15

From McDonald's "product" gaffes to the end of a 46-year Hello Kitty era. Diving into the uncanny valley of corporate sincerity and digital archeology.

Mar 4 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Ylm

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February 2026

Proof We Didn’t Hallucinate the Gobbledok

You’ve probably never heard of it and, if you have, you may not even remember, but it existed - The Gobbledok. Hailing from so far back in the past…

Feb 27 • The Orbit and Kris Litson

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A Love Letter to Plastic Junk: Nintendo’s weirdest Inventions

Why the loud, clunky gadgets of the 80s reveal what we've lost in the age of frictionless tech.

Feb 15 • The Orbit and Sarah Ylm

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #14

A quick tour through design drama, unhinged products, nostalgia-fueled aesthetics, and the internet’s latest creative detours.

Feb 2 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Ylm

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