About this podcast
Louie Mantia writes LMNT, designs icons for Parakeet, makes playing cards for Junior, and creates fonts for Crown.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 36 episodes
- Design DroughtI swear to god… no matter where my attention wanders, the world around me seems hellbent on reminding me that the industry doesn’t value the craft of making software, all because…
- Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid GlassesThis could’ve easily been 12 blog posts, but I opted for one that comprehensively captures how I feel about design on Apple platforms right now. The Pendulum Swing There was…
- Please Make It StopRemember The Good Place? The point system for individual decisions lives rent free in my head. You can’t adhere to this concept too strictly. There’s a long list of decisions…
- The Dystopian Dream TeamWell, it’s finally here, the dystopian dream team. Jony Ive and Sam Altman hitched their carts together to create god knows what. While some people are “excited” or “intrigued,”…
- One-TimeMasa Louie, what does “time” mean when ordering? Me What? Masa Like, “One time cappuccino, one time latte, one time special morning set…” Me …What in the world? “Time”? Who…
- Gravitational Pull of Reese’sI was roaming the underground shopping area outside Tokyo Station, and walked past a miniature Don Quixote, a discount shop. The normal size one is almost intolerable, so I never…
- It’s All Anybody Can See[Download the video.] Yes, someone in the government is breaking the law, and yes, that other politician is being a hypocrite, and yes again, that one over there is clearly a…
- HumaneThere’s a lot to take away from Humane’s story, but first, I want to share something I said on Twitter in July 2022, a full year before Humane revealed their product, the Ai Pin…
- Gulf of MexicoModern cartography should not be determined via political pressure. If we all can’t agree on that, we really should. That’s the basis of why it was so cowardly for both Google…
- Where’s the Line?Where’s the line that can’t be crossed? Surely there’s something so vile, so intolerable, so universal in its horror that there’s no other choice but to stop and shut everything…
- Two and a Half KidsBumble, 4:50 PM Julia Everyone here wants to get married and have 2.5 kids. me TELL ME ABOUT IT In Japan, there’s a constant reminder from the government—by way of media…
- Unforgivablecafé staff Do you like Harry Potter? me No. Zero percent. café staff Oh. Why? me JK Rowling is an asshole. Louie opens Google Translate She has waged a crusade against…
- Talking About MoneyEver since my very first website, I’ve had a donate button. And over the years, some people have been very generous and I’m very appreciative of that. I’m no stranger to talking…
- Siri Will Never Win the Super BowlJohn Gruber, to Siri Who won Super Bowl 13? I understand that American football—and by extension, the Super Bowl—is a popular subject and that this seems like a simple question…
- Love LimitationsTinder, 9:02 PM me Do you think there are limitations to love? な No. me Do you think love is limited to one partner? な Yes. To me, yes. When it comes to family—parents…
- Withered TechnologyGunpei Yokoi, a designer of the original Game Boy, described his philosophy as “lateral thinking with withered technology.” Instead of focusing on the newest, shiniest, and…
- Or, Instead of All This—I saw a few posts and headlines that made me do a double-take. Not because they were particularly shocking, but because they are incredibly avoidable. Ghost is a…
- RangeAs Mark Zuckerberg changes content moderation policies at Meta, I wanted to re-read my post from last year. me The necessity around content moderation is based on the extended…
- This Is Gonna Be BadYou may have seen Mark Zuckerberg’s five-minute video about how Facebook is doing literal U-turns on many of their content moderation policies. If you didn’t watch it, I guess…
- Refined ClarityDan Counsell Can we please have the macOS X Lion UI back? 😍 Yes, I would also like that. I would welcome any standard UI that gives us back some tools we lost. There’s a…
