The slide archive of Pacific Outdoor Advertising, documented mostly hand-made advertisements on Southern California billboards between 1950’s-90’s. Saved from being thrown away by photographer Gary Leonard, now at the Huntington library.

https://www.tiktok.com/@beachboyz2men/video/7650214992410676510

https://www.huntington.org/collections/lib-photcl-488

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Just going to put this out there, Teenage Engineering, probably one of the coolest companies on the planet, is looking for a graphic designer https://careers.teenage.engineering/jobs/7819659-graphic-designer/

I kinda love that type, lettering, and typography is still the easiest way to figure out if an image is made with AI. Even when they figured out how to add fonts to images, they're still the most whack-ass fonts that get repeated everywhere, and even still they have absolutely no clue what to do with type that is small or on a skew.

Even if making and selling fonts goes to shit, at least we could find a purpose using our skills spotting AI images, like some sort of typography Mentat that humanity can rely on during the Butlerian Jihad

“One approach, proposed by Google Research, is what you might call a “token auction.” In this model, advertisers don’t buy ad slots on a page. Instead, they bid, token by token, on the actual text the model generates. Each advertiser brings their own LLM, and an auction mechanism decides whose model gets to influence the next word. The output is a weighted blend of competing interests, shaped by who’s willing to pay more.”