Your monthly non-spammy-gif-heavy newsletter from your friends at oio.

Issue 9

Hello fellow humans and welcome to the first edition of the oio newsletter of the year 2022. It's a bit late for new year resolutions and all that, but we just entered the Year of the Tiger so I guess it is a new beginning after all. Speaking of fresh starts we are also witnessing some serious expansion of the oio team, new blood helping us to shape a less-boring future for everyone.

This and other enjoyable news, monthly charts, video games, free NFTs and a bunch of cool links right below.

🗞 Oio News

New people!

We have two new additions to the oio team, Marta and Octavian. You can know more about them in their own words below:

Marta Fioravanti

Hello, I’m Marta! I was born in a city whose existence is questioned by many Italian conspiracy theories. I started as a visual designer but I was too lazy, so I started programming to automate my work, and I doubled the time I spent doing stuff. I always put something yellow in my projects. My skateboard often says to me I have my feet on the ground. Here is a very useful nun generator I made with a friend.

Octavian Husoschi

Hi my name’s Octavian and I love meta-design and circular storytelling. Currently based in Milan, I’m into video games, shitposting, and pink (the color not the singer). Great at multitasking aka watching 2-hours-long video essays on YouTube while making my KILLER chili con carne (veg version in the workings). People tell me I’m “so zoomer it hurts” and that I dress like an animal crossing character. Here’s something I made.

Opening the IXDA conference

On other news, oio's co-founder Matteo Loglio will be opening the Interaction Design Association 2022 Conference, or simply IXDA22. He's writing this very email thinking that he really doesn't know what to talk about but it will be something extremely cool, so stay tuned. You probably have to get a ticket to listen to it, but it's definitely worth it. Matteo is probably the least interesting person presenting, as there are world-class designers and industry leaders lined up, and it's also a great opportunity to meet new people, so don't be shy and get a ticket here (massive discounts for students).

👉 Tickets here

Domus academy Disrupting Patterns

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On February 23rd, oio's co-founder Simone Rebaudengo will share some of our work and approach to envisioning and making future products, during a Disrupting Pattern Talk at Milan-based school Domus Academy.

👉 Register here

Museum of the Future opening soon!

The doors will open on 22/2/22, nothing public yet but keep an eye on their website, as more content will be revealed on the opening date. We've been working with the Museum of the Future on a few exhibitions from the permanent collection. More info after the opening.

😎 Cool Facts!

🌐 Oio Community Links

Our Discord community is growing, we are now almost 500 people. Discord is where we announce things before any other channel - workshops, drops and job ads. If you want to stay tuned with the hottest news from oio, make sure to smash this JOIN link.

Here some cherry-picked links for you:

🦫 6 more weeks of winter

💍 A couple had a blockchain wedding with NFT vows

⛏ DKP is Market Socialism

🤖 DeepMind latest algorithm writes better code than humans

💬 InstructGPT is the latest hot LLM from OpenAI

🕹 Veteran game designer on NFTs and play-to-earn models

🏡 Metaverse real estate sales top $500 million

🚨 AssangeDAO raises $20M in 3 days