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BYTE Magazine Covers and a Gentler Way to Imagine the Future

What Robert Tinney’s paintings reveal about early computer culture and what we lost when tech stopped being illustrated.

Jan 14 • The Orbit and Sarah Ylm

Notes From the Friction Era

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Jan 7 • Marta Litson and The Orbit

🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #13

The rise of the Human Watermark, the legacy of the Nintendo Power Glove, platform absurdities, AI overload, and iconic design misfires.

Jan 2 • The Orbit

🧵 The Accidental Invention of the Slinky

How a Falling Spring Became a Toy Store Legend

Dec 25, 2025 • The Orbit and Marta Litson

📡 Fewer Tabs, Fewer Regrets: Testing Recraft

What happened when we used Recraft for illustration, vectorisation, and visual consistency in one place.

Dec 21, 2025 • The Orbit and Paula Smiri

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Dec 18, 2025 • The Orbit

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🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #14

A quick tour through design drama, unhinged products, nostalgia-fueled aesthetics, and the internet’s latest creative detours.

Feb 2 • The Orbit, Marta Litson, and Sarah Ylm

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The rise of the Human Watermark, the legacy of the Nintendo Power Glove, platform absurdities, AI overload, and iconic design misfires.

Jan 2 • The Orbit

🛸 The Orbit Dispatch - Issue #12

Hello! December’s here, and the internet put on a sweater but stayed weird.

Nov 30, 2025 • The Orbit

🛸 The Orbit Dispatch: Issue #11

The Mascot Renaissance, Humaine AI Pin + Halloween Special!

Oct 31, 2025 • The Orbit

Threads

🧵 The Short, Weird History of Fake Futures

Why we keep imagining tomorrow wrong—and why it always looks the same.

Jan 21 • The Orbit and Marta Litson

🧵 The Accidental Invention of the Slinky

How a Falling Spring Became a Toy Store Legend

Dec 25, 2025 • The Orbit and Marta Litson

🧵 A diVine Intervention: What if the Internet’s just... tired?

diVine’s revival pokes at our craving for realness in a world that forgot how.

Nov 21, 2025 • The Orbit and Sarah Ylm

🧵 Why Labubu Looks Like It Just Ate Your Dreams

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Oct 15, 2025 • The Orbit and Marta Litson

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