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Luddites, Process, and Friction-Maxxing

Lauren Panepinto

A big part of my job is trend forecasting, and to do proper trend forecasting you have to look beyond your genre, beyond your industry, and all the way down to the collective unconscious. I talk about this a lot in various Muddy Colors posts, because it informs a lot of what I do, and I most recently did a mini-series on Trendcasting around the Neo-Medievalism trend happening. You can read Part I, Part II,…

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SEVERANCE S1 LP Soundtrack

Greg Ruth

January 15, 2026 - *SPOILER WARNING: If you're not familiar with or have seen the first season of Severance, please fix that first. While this article is primarily about the process around the 2-set LP we did for MONDO/Death Waltz Records, I'm not going to hold back on worrying about spoilers. So this is your only warning. Essentially, stop, go right now and watch the first season toot sweet. As design and illustration jobs go there to date hasn't been pone this involved, taxing at times overwhelming but always and entirely worth every ounce of effort and time Spencer and I put into this pair of LPs. Not since TWIN PEAKS had I felt like there was so much material to attack, and play with on a basic literacy story, visual, and thematic way as Severance unfolded before me. Each…

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