A Cure for What Ails 🍵💋

This week, a Chicago-based fashion designer divulges their inspirations and aspirations, and we share some really stellar mugs. 

x Varyer Team

Conversations: Faviola Anaya Esquivel

Faviola Anaya Esquivel's work takes adult feelings and translates them into a visual language of nostalgia, color, and childlike whimsy. Here, Esquivel shares their inspirations, ranging from episodes of Project Runway to the fear of aging and death. 

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Recommendations: Mugs and their Makers

It's gifting season, and we think that mugs-as-gifts get a bad rap. We've aggregated a bevy of beverage vessels that would delight any recipient—and deserve a place of honor at the very front of the cupboard. 

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⛓ Slackables ⛓
 

Everybody voted and the results are in: Varyer’s holiday playlist is perfect  ≻  Everyone also chimed in on what’s going on with IG and turns out we have the ick for it  ≻  Mike White on his creative process and procrastination tendencies  ≻  Delightful video of Hermann Zapf drawing marks  ≻  Essential bookmark: FLINT*ype, supporting marginalized designers in graphic design with a robust archive of typefaces   ≻  40 new fonts for 2023  ≻  Straightforward tool to improve your vocabulary by eliminating ‘very’  ≻  Preorder the new issue of Eyesore  ≻  Take a one-eyed look back at the i-D wink  ≻  GIPHY’s top GIFs of the year  ≻  Bon Appétit got a (print) facelift  ≻  The World of Interiors got a (web) facelift  ≻  Download and read about Steven Hyden’s favorite R.E.M. live bootleg  ≻  Trend exhaustion has lead us to the inevitable specter of corecore.

✩ Song of the Day of the Week ✩

Taylor Mauch shares her most-listened-to song of the year, poignantly timed with the passing of Christine McVie.

Can you hear me calling
Out your name?
You know that I'm falling
And I don't know what to say

Everywhere
by Fleetwood Mac