What Kyle Chayka thinks about design
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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4 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kyle Chayka has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsSo it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
↗RIP Millennial lifestyle brandskylechayka.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
↗RIP Millennial lifestyle brandskylechayka.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsThe band told me about the pressure of creating content in order to promote their music and the ways in which the audience now has power over how songs sound.
↗How to survive a TikTok hit songkylechayka.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 19 months earlier
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Our readingFashion is for saying something about yourself, not for conforming to a data-driven standard.
Their wordsdistorting the purpose of fashion, which is actually to communicate something about yourself, not to conform to some data-driven standard.
↗'Filterworld' explores how social media algorithms 'flatten' our culture (Fresh Air, NPR)npr.org 2nd of 3 in this piece