by Orbit | Jan 8, 2026 | AI, Blog, Design
Creative leadership has always meant standing in the space between vision and execution, chaos and clarity, concept and craft. The arrival of AI hasn’t changed that — it’s just raised the stakes. Suddenly, every creative leader is being asked the same...
by Orbit | Jan 5, 2026 | Blog, Design, The Dispatch
January always feels like a quiet inhale before the year exhales all at once. Before things get noisy again, I wanted to pause, look back at where the last year actually took me and share a bit of where things are headed next. 2025, in Motion Last year began with a...
by Orbit | Aug 28, 2025 | Blog, Design, DesignNova
DesignNova is Orbit Studios’ ongoing series exploring the stories and secrets behind iconic designs that shaped the world — where creativity meets history. When New York City teetered on the brink in the mid-1970s—plagued by financial crisis, crime, and grim...
by Orbit | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Brand, Design, Rapid Reactions
Rapid Reactions takes the latest brand pivots and breaks them down—strategy, execution, and the cultural static in between—served with a designer’s eye and a splash of snark. A bit of context (for the uninitiated) Cracker Barrel’s first logo (1969) was text-only. In...
by Orbit | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog, Brand, Design, Designing the Multiverse
Welcome back to Designing the Multiverse, where we reimagine brands from an alternate reality—one where aesthetic rules are bent, universes collide, and design choices are delightfully unhinged. Each edition is a creative thought experiment that asks: What if another...
by Orbit | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Brand, Design
This entry is part of an ongoing series where I explore the strange-but-true shifts in modern design culture. Sometimes we build thought experiments (like Designing the Multiverse), and sometimes we zoom in on emerging aesthetics and ask: what’s really going on here?...
