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Be a part of 40 Trillion DPI's 50th episode! Send us your burning questions!

40 Trillion DPI is turning 50! Our fiftieth episode is coming up and we want you to be a part of it. Have a burning question you'd like to ask us? Or, I guess, pose to th

Welcome to 2025, basketbrain!

This week, we put on a stretched out vintage lacy thong, an Everlane Oxford shirt, Steve Madden heels, a Gen Z vaguely bug-like nose cuff, and… basketball shorts as we sa

Daddied by an AI Robot—R.I.P. (with special guest Bryan Lehrer)

This week, we're joined by "octopus of knowledge/AI robot", Bryan Lehrer! Bryan guided us on a deep dive into gravestone aesthetics and somehow segued into an existential

Teenage Hallucinations in the Ethnic Food Aisle

This week we navigate a treacherous path down the “ethnic food aisle” of jewel-toned squiggle packaging with the guidance of It’s Nice That’s Roshita Thomas AND we traver

The Texture of Life (Frictionless Medieval Sludgeshop)

This week, we get Canva-ified with Instagram's new creator tools, we are hot on the case of international rings of AI slop shops, and we spend an afternoon in our plague

American Design Carnage

This week—on 40 Trillion DPI America Design Carnage Edition—we get into the brief life of a briefly created logo, we consider word art in official government docs, we lea

Adobe BearTrap 2000

This week we get lost in the cursed wilderness of legalese trying to update our subscription to Adobe Bear Trap’s AI Swiss typography generator AND we get social at the d

Performative Novel Gestures

This week we frolic into the abundant wilderness to write poems with our tattooed hands in monochrome Notion, on our Daylight Computers and we are healed! We sip the visc

Huvudroll's Total Path

Hi everyone! This week we talk about IKEA's brazen theft of artist Tim Lahan's work for their SF food hall; we celebrate weirdo interstitial illustrations in the AutoDesk

Astral Corgi Ego Death w/Holiday Black

This 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 b

Bathed in Bisexual Lighting

This 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

White Wine, White Bread, T9, Tokens

This 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 fitnes

“Don't Drink That!” with special guest David Chathas

This 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

Liquid Metal AI Sea Slugs

This 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 thing

Carnival Optimism with B3n J4n Az and M2c A7n

This 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 Jo

AI Fashion Food Pyramid (Reduxxx)

NOTE: 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

Fusion So Good

This week—we dodge the floating pharmaceutical logo lockup with medical spokesperson, lady gaga, we liquidate our savings buying virtual ice cream for Pinkydoll, we compa

Category Liquidation

This 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 D

Sanrio Cinematic Universe

This 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

Its A**h*le Might be Its M**th

This week we go grocery shopping with AI Drake, we take a walking tour of every single place you’ve ever seen on AirBnB, we check on Dril as his native Twitter habitat co