hello + welcome to 40 trillion dpi. we’re 2 designers + weirdos + friends, and we like to talk about the wilds and borings of design—how it relates culturally and how we stretch the discourse beyond just nice logos❣️
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EPISODE 29

Mid-Pacific Funko Trash Island


48 mins —
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EPISODE 28

Biblically Accurate Zazzle Designers in the Age of Streaming


39 mins —
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EPISODE 27

Singularity as a Service


50 mins —
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EPISODE 26

Wearable Erotic Tech in the Metaverse Goth Target


47 mins —
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EPISODE 25

Caslon Kahle: Toy Catalogs, Sweaty Basements, and The Internet's Phone Book


55 mins —
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EPISODE 24

Rory King and Brenden Lovejoy: Let the “Design” Out!


50 mins —
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EPISODE 23

SUMMER RECAP
Cyclopean Fast Food, Negative-freedom-algorithm-training, and
arificial-artificial intelligent rap-fluencers


50 mins —
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EPISODE 22

Strikethrough! Typographic Messages of Protest with curator Silas Munro 


55 mins —
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EPISODE 21

Composures (the new Gmail “compose” button, anono-racist hackers, drunken data breaches, and... drunken packaging!)


47 mins —
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EPISODE 20

The SF Art Book Fair Spectacular! 


59 mins —
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EPISODE 19

SF DESIGN WEEK: Panels, Light Snacks, Butterfly Zoos, and Confusing Parties


29 mins —
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EPISODE 18

Surreal Muppet Generations and Primordial Dating Apps


45 mins —
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EPISODE 17

Special Guest: Helen Shewolfe Tseng


60 mins —
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EPISODE 16

36 Days of Bimbo


59 mins —
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EPISODE 15

MONEY IS COLORS


52 mins —
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EPISODE 14

2022 Design Trend Watch!


35 mins —
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EPISODE 13

CCA Strike Primer with Ana Llorente


37 mins —
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EPISODE 12

Decorative Jony Ive Plates, Mysterious Chrome Cubes, Fascist A.I., and the Uncanny Copy Valley


61 mins —
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EPISODE 11

Costco Influencers, Endangered Neopets, and a look into the mirror at Mirror.xyz


46 mins —
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EPISODE 10 (Pink/Green)

One episode. Two versions. Listen to one. Listen to both.

 
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EPISODE 8

Enter in a Wilderness of Steam! We take a *Sound Bath Journey* with architects Amy Louie and Cooper Rogers of Waters BC + Good Hot Sauna

Also: Read our interview with Amy and Cooper


29 mins —
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EPISODE 9

Supergraphics in the Suburbs, Wu-Tang Wannabes, and a Trip to a Very Beige Metaverse


47 mins —
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EPISODE 7

Sharing Accessibility, Dating App Cafés, Signed Copies of the Internet,and Lesbian Revenge!


42 mins —
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EPISODE 6

Olivia Rodrigo’s Reverse Psychology, California's Vaccine Lottery, and Tripping Over the Cracks in Our Social Cement


31 mins —
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EPISODE 5

Font Democracy NOW! (We Spend Literally an Entire Episode Talking About Microsoft’s Quest for a New Default Font)


42 mins —
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EPISODE 4

Helen Preps for a Balloon Trip to Kentucky, Justin Attempts to Over-Balance and Hurts Himself, and Our Bones are Melted into Goo So We Can Be Reborn, Ready to Get 50% Hoey in the Gum Aisle


40 mins —
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EPISODE 3

Prince Harry’s New Job, Anti-Asian Violence in Atlanta (and Beyond), Filling the Locks of Gun Stores with Glue So No One Can Get In, and California’s Mysterious Privacy Icon


47mins —
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EPISODE 2

Amazon’s Problem Facial Hair, Roly-Poly Brain Surgeons, The Ministry of Influencers, + NFTs


46mins —
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EPISODE 1

Exhausted Emojis, Internet Sex Ed, Water Bottle Semiotics, The Singularity


50mins — 
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