Vintage athletic graphics are some of the best typography inspiration.
Most of it was done by non-designers (just some random guy at the print shop), so there's a lot of really odd, unconventional details that you can borrow to make something stand out.
Eg, how "championships" and "university" are in different weights so they could cram in all those letters.
Reminder for all young parents:
You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager
This time is precious. Don’t rush it.
I still don't understand how I was ever able to get up at the crack of dawn, be at school by 7:30, study seven different subjects, speak a foreign language for a bit, get 45 minutes of exercise, play a musical instrument, deal with school drama, maybe play a sport, get home and study some more before I went to bed, and all of it without a single drop of coffee. Like seriously who was that person.
The thing that is kicking Gen Z's butt right now is Obama's cash for clunkers.
Every one of us that graduated in the '90s that wasn't rich, at some point owned a $600 used vehicle. We owned it out right and we put $10 in gas in it and it got us where we was going all week long.
Obama did away with cheap used vehicles, and now kids have to pay $500 a month to have a vehicle to drive even used.
Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.
Every video games series on wikipedia is like this now:
- 2001-2007: A game every single year
- 2008-2015: A game every two to three years
- 2016-2026: Absolutely fucking nothing outside of a failed mobile game
Nowadays kids’ books have messages like “believe in yourself” and “you can do anything” but when I was a kid the messages were things like “a lady who has a candy house wants to cook and eat you” and “sometimes wolves can disguise themselves as old women”