40,000,000,000,000 DPI
by Helen Ip + Justin Carder40 Trillion DPI is a show about all the ways design manifests. It's about design both as a discipline and a cultural product. Each episode, Helen Ip and Justin Carder (two designers/weirdos/friends) get together to talk about the world through the lens of design. Thanks for hanging out with us!
Copyright: Helen Ip + Justin Carder
Episodes
Astral Corgi Ego Death w/Holiday Black
1h 0m · PublishedThis week we’re joined by our friend, Holiday Black. Holiday is a concept-forward art director with a passion for youth culture, creativity, and their two cats. They’ve been art directing for the past four years, and have had the opportunity to work on alcohol, fast food, cars, fashion, and footwear. Outside of work, Holiday can be found crafting, looking for hot springs, reading a book, or googling whether or not mercury is in retrograde. You can find Holiday’s work at www.holiday.black.
We talk with Holiday about their work, royal photoshop fails, corgi eugenics, and design as a portal to spiritual ego death and ultimately enlightenment.
Thanks for listening! Ciao!
Bathed in Bisexual Lighting
1h 4m · PublishedThis week we spend our life savings on numerological sports betting meal deal life hacks at whop.com; and we quit school to work on our sports betting meal deal life hack startup with a grant from Molly Mielke’s Moth Fund; and then we bathe in the bisexual lighting cast by a full screen view of Monotype’s neuroscience type reports. Turns out we were right all along!
White Wine, White Bread, T9, Tokens
54m · PublishedThis week we bring fine art to our fine faces with Marina Abramovic’s new line of spiritually-invigorating skincare products. We get a head start on our 2024 thumb fitness goals with T-9 in our TV at CES. AND we go into existential crisis mode in a post-creator world with whatever Metalabel is.
“Don't Drink That!” with special guest David Chathas
56m · PublishedThis week we talked to David Chathas: a graphic designer, type designer, educator, sometimes artist who would have rather been a UFC fighter. We talked to Dave about lots of things you can and cannot drink: Bud Light (comma) the history of, high end baby skin care products, energy drinks that look like automotive fluids, and automotive fluids that look like energy drinks—we also discussed the etiquette of lurking online, AND the woke Kansas state license plate fiasco (brought to you by Canva)!
You can find a breakdown of this episode with images and further digressions at: 40trilliondpi.substack.com
AND you can find Dave’s work at: bestgraphicdesignerintheworld.com
Liquid Metal AI Sea Slugs
1h 16m · PublishedThis week we delve into the odd history of fax memes; we try and see if there is any there there in the Figma state of the designer report; we learn about the weird things people are trying to do to sea slugs; we visit Kim K in her 7-11/office at the top of the Empire State Building, and we try and get our dating-app eggs to hatch before they're cooked. It is so confusing! Thanks for joining us!
Carnival Optimism with B3n J4n Az and M2c A7n
49m · PublishedThis week we look into the medieval street scene that is the internet and ask ourselves, where did all these jesters come from? And why are several of them named Brian Jordan Alvarez? AND we take a trip to the best of all possible techno-optimistic worlds with Marc A-seven-n.
AI Fashion Food Pyramid (Reduxxx)
49m · PublishedNOTE: We accidentally swapped in the wrong audio on this, so we're reposting!!!
Hey baybees! We're back! In this week's episode, we pour one out for Burkey Belser, the designer of the original Nutrition Facts label, and how raw information can compete with raw obfuscation. It's a rabbit hole! Also we talk for way too long about Humane AI's AI pin and what a future without screens, apps—or desire itself—might look like!
Fusion So Good
44m · PublishedThis week—we dodge the floating pharmaceutical logo lockup with medical spokesperson, lady gaga, we liquidate our savings buying virtual ice cream for Pinkydoll, we compare tactical battle strategies with I Can Talk Barbie, we stick our arms into tiny black suits to visit the puppet pet cemetery—AND we also might have talked about the glassdoor drama! Only one way (for us) to find out!
Category Liquidation
37m · PublishedThis week we wait for a flight in Meta’s shiny new Threads lounge, we are led by Gilbert the floating head through a very special video essay about the state of Graphic Design, we are led by an AI chat-panion we’re calling “Figgy” through Figma’s annual IRL conference, CONFIG, and we see what happens when you put an obscure piece of film history in the Magic Chef.
Check out some visual references and an episode breakdown at
https://40trilliondpi.substack.com/
Sanrio Cinematic Universe
51m · PublishedThis week, we take our rightful place as characters in the Sanrio Cinematic Universe, we embrace life on the grid at a digital nomad spreadsheet cafe, and we head to the abandoned SEARS in Second Life to try and buy a hat.
40,000,000,000,000 DPI has 42 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 33:15:02. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 22nd, 2024 01:41.