Premiere: Turner Cody’s “Death is the Friend You Never Met”

Director Chris Tucci shares insight on a bleak, beautiful music video

When met with a song about death, music video directors can go in innumerable directions for complementary visuals: undercut the sorrow, emphasize it, heighten the fear, obscure it. For folk singer Turner Cody‘s new track “Death is the Friend You Never Met,” director Chris Tucci actually takes several routes, binding them neatly in a video of visual queues and structural layers. Here, stark animation meets …

Grindr’s 500+ Gaymojis

With references to online dating culture and the queer community lexicon, Grindr’s new set of 500+ emojis fills a clear visual communication void with clever new options. From a rainbow heart to men raining from a cloud, there are fun, bright options—some of which are shorthand for fantasies and desires. All of them fit within six categories: Mood, Profile, Body, Dating + Sex, Objects, and …

NikeLab Air Vapormax + Marc Newson

A FlyKnit and leather moccasin in a never-before-seen silhouette

We’ve reached the 30th anniversary of Nike‘s Air Max technology. For some that will trigger nostalgia over iconic silhouettes—and the technical capabilities they delivered. For the team at NikeLab, it was a milestone invitation to continue advancing. And with that, they launched three new partnerships as part of the ongoing Nike Vision-AIRS series, one of which being the return of industrial designer Marc Newson. For …