7 things the Knewz homepage looks like
Too many disses to choose from re: News Corp’s “answer to Google” (a combination of words that Larry and Sergey are probably laughing over, richly) called Knewz, which launched yesterday and summarily assaulted us with the homepage design to end all homepages and maybe design itself, as a general discipline. Here is a selection; please add your own.
Things the Knewz homepage looks like:
A literal migraine. Some pharmaceutical company should use Knewz to represent what it feels like when your brain wants to explode but you’re also oddly nauseous. I would say they should sell medication around the margins BUT THERE ARE NO MARGINS.
That summer you spent at home waffling around with Microsoft Word because your parents refused to buy you another CD-ROM barbie game, and also the dial-up was on the fritz, so you lost entire days entertaining yourself with typing words and dressing them up as imaginatively as possible with two nifty little moves called “bold” and “underline.”
If someone at Pantone finally figured out how to distill the exact shade of stomach bile that comes up after you’ve puked out a handle of gasoline-grade vodka. Or so I’ve been told.
This doesn’t fit the list frame, but I would like to comment on the hilarious brushstroke that makes up the Knewz logo, as if to suggest that at one point an actual painter was affiliated with this at any stage.
Day 2 of your least favorite Boomer relative finding out about emojis, and then misusing them in place of things like punctuation, syntax, logic, etc.
My brain at 4 a.m. when the words POSSIBLE SERIAL KILLER and MIDEAST PEACE are also given near-equal billing in the information hierarchy.
Vox.com’s evil yet sickly twin. (This is a Marvel storyline I would follow tbh.)
Anyway, for a visual palate cleanse, please look at @yuleskim on a Citibike with a Deez Links tote bag. This is the lifestyle you deserve, people.