Our two recent posts about collecting have focused on the purposeful and the accidental. Let’s go even bigger. Let’s talk about the collective memory of a generation. A Gen X doc, Brats, centers on a pop culture watershed moment in the 1980s when Hollywood discovered teens and young adults on dates were the ones buttering their bread.

There’s a whole category of stuff we all collect without even noticing it. Orbiting around us like cosmic trash, tagging along for the ride. The documentary Flipside charts one man’s struggle to close the circle with all of his aborted video projects, cast against the backdrop of a New Jersey record store.

Think about it for a minute. You collect something, don’t you? Beanie Babies, baseball cards, comic books, autographs—there’s something in your house, your garage, or maybe even your soul that you’ve decided is worth amassing.

The acclaimed podcast, Two Designers Walk Into a Bar, has been honored with an American Digital Design Award from Graphic Design USA magazine. The podcast, hosted by designers Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk, was noted for its innovative approach to promoting the stories behind design, creativity and craft.

What makes a great package? An iconic bottle, box or bag? The answer may surprise you.

Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk, the creators behind the hit design and pop culture show Two Designers Walk Into a Bar, announced last week at the PodFest Expo Upfronts the release of their newest investigative true-crime series, Design Crimes: Comic Sans, Who’s Laughing Now?, set to drop on April 15, 2024.

For Boomers and Gen X viewers alike, Miami Vice blended the nighttime grit of the criminal underworld with the pastel-tinged sleekness of New Wave, all set to the beat of a Hollywood-ready soundtrack.

We remember the halcyon days of being old enough to have a few bucks in our pockets but not experienced enough to have been burned by a product that didn’t measure up to its billing.

Okay, so Warhol was using his work to recombine the familiar in new ways to make a statement and help us see something again for the first time. But he’s been gone since 1987. It’s been a minute. So who is our “Warhol" now? We propose three potential candidates.

We hope you’ve been enjoying our recent series about Andy Warhol. We’ve tried to bring to life a person plenty has been written about, talked about and filmed, while still being enigmatic to even close friends. So how was Warhol able to crack the code and begin making fine art that was also thematically accessible to the typical suburbanite?