Lore Oxford is a cultural theorist and strategist. She's also the author of Substack column 'Why tho?', where she writes about internet culture and the adoption of Web3.

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Music, radio, and podcasts

'Episode 15: the sound of the artificial world', 99% Invisible

'Subjective evaluation of car door sound', Institute for Human-machine Communication

'GE's new emphasis in appliances: sound design', Fast Co.Design

'Why Her will dominate UI design even more than Minority Report', Wired

'Mind the Bach: classical music on the Underground', The Independent

'Hitting the gym? Scientists compile ultimate workout playlist', The Telegraph

'Timely is the best-looking alarm clock you can get on Android', The Verge

'Stopping the microwave at one second and feeling like a bomb defuser', Facebook

'Music fires up emotions in the brain', Psych Central

'A sleek modern keyboard with an '80s clackity sound', Wired

'The next (sound) wave in branding: how AT&T created its new sonic identity', Fast Co.Design

'Original Source lets you immerse yourself in shower gel smell online', Creativity Online

'C. Wonder's wonderful dressing rooms', Retail Wire

'We must pay more attention to sound when designing spaces', Wired

Great audio logos can work as branded signifiers - and the subtleties of sound are increasingly being incorporated into products, too. But how much noise is too much? Are there really any benefits to owning a microwave with its own soundtrack?

Designing a theatre for the mind