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🚨⚠️ Exposure is cute until your landlord asks for actual money.
Pay creatives. Period. by @itstheorbit

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2 years ago

The internet is dead. Unfortunately, it’s also never been busier.
A few things currently floating around our corner of the web in Dispatch #22.

Read the full thing on Substack — link in bio. 🌀 by @itstheorbit

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7 days ago

Five authors, five real couples and a cat with its own version of events. @hinge has entered its publishing era.

For our latest interview, we spoke to Ola Sobiecki, Hinge’s VP and Executive Creative Director, about No Ordinary Love: the anthology turning real couples’ beginnings into short stories, now available in audio and extending across print, film and Substack.

We get into creative freedom, emotional honesty and why a dating app is commissioning literature in the first place. Including what happens when you let Rufi Thorpe tell the love story through the cat.

The full interview is on Substack. No paywall, obviously. Link in bio. by @itstheorbit

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24 days ago

The swipe had a good run. Now dating apps that built it are trying to escape it.

Our latest article looks at why dating apps are building entire cultural worlds beyond the match and what happens when one starts acting like a publisher.

New on Substack. No paywall, obviously. Link in bio. by @itstheorbit

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a month ago

Happy Monday from the slightly weirder side of the internet.

Issue #18 is live — full of offline internet energy and creative oddities for anyone who still misses when the web felt handmade.

Come get lost with us 🛸

#substacknewsletter by @itstheorbit

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5 months ago

New Article just landed in your inbox!
A love letter to BYTE cover art: brushstrokes, metaphors and early computer optimism. ✨

Subscribe to our newsletter at www.itstheorbit.com. by @itstheorbit

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9 months ago

McBarge 👀 McDonald’s once built a floating restaurant for the Vancouver Expo—sleek, futuristic, and completely impractical. After the event, it bobbed around abandoned for decades like a ghost ship of fast food capitalism. Then it sunk. by @itstheorbit

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9 months ago

BlackBerry fans, this is not a drill! 👀

Ten years after BlackBerry ended its classic smartphones, the keyboard is back at the center. The Clicks Communicator was created in collaboration with Joseph Hofer, the designer behind some of BlackBerry’s most iconic devices.

Changeable covers, shortcut keys and the return of the 3.5mm headphone jack - enough to convince us.

More on substack: www.itstheorbit.com

Image source: clicks by @itstheorbit

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9 months ago

🛸 Trying to make sense of the internet, design and culture in 2026? Same.

We spent the last few weeks working on The Orbit Almanac: part trend report, part cultural weather forecast-and we’re excited to finally share it. It’s free!

Subscribe to our newsletter at www.itstheorbit.com.

New subscribers get it in their welcome email

#substacknewsletter #substack by @itstheorbit

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9 months ago

Vintage Kodak Ads - Late 70s ✨ by @itstheorbit

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9 months ago

Bring back Color options ✨✨✨ by @itstheorbit

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10 months ago

The weirdest part about MTVs broadcast channels ending after 44 years is how unceremonious it feels. A cultural institution simply switched off. by @itstheorbit

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10 months ago