Zachary Petit

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Freelance journalist/copywriter. Writes about design/arts/culture/travel. Words @fastcompany @SmithsonianMag @printmag @AIGAeyeondesign @writersdigest @natgeo

Articles

Modelo lanza su cerveza 0% con un logo perfecto

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Zachary Petit

El mundo está inundado de cerveza sin alcohol en este momento. Athletic lideró la categoría con aproximadamente 95.8 millones de dólares (mdd) en ventas en 2024, seguida por las grandes marcas tradicionales Heineken (89.45 mdd), Budweiser (62.37 mdd), Busch (37 mdd) y Corona (28.6 mdd).
With LeBron Barbies and Cybertruck replicas, Mattel aims to get adults to buy toys

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

Barbie x Keiichi Tanaami. Hot Wheels x Daniel Arsham. Masters of the Universe x Virgil Abloh. Uno x Shantell Martin, Takashi Murakami, Gary Baseman, Kartell . . . These collaborations might sound like an Andy Warhol pop fever dream, but they’re very real within Mattel Creations, the toy powerhouse’s hub for innovation and premium collectibles, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary as it continues carving out all-new business for the company.
20 of the Best Book Covers for May 2025 – PRINT Magazine

1 month ago | printmag.com | Zachary Petit

In 2012, Jenny Volvovski launched From Cover to Cover—a personal project in which she sought to design a cover for every single book she read. And, well, they were surprisingly brilliant, and have unsurprisingly led to a career designing real book covers (and much more). Her latest project: A cover for Juan José Saer’s novel The Event.
This tiny piece of tech will change how you watch the Indy 500

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Zachary Petit

When you describe it in words, the Indianapolis 500 might seem like a boring watch: Cars go round and round an oval track 200 times, totaling 500 miles over the course of a few hours. But if you were a driver, you’d be having a hell of a different experience. Think screaming speeds of 230 miles per hour, pulling 4 Gs on corners, with one’s reflexes and split-second decisions drawing a thin line between victory and tragedy . . . over the course of a few hours.
The Bible, redesigned for the Instagram age

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

Bible designs tend to be variations on a theme-tissue-thin paper and unforgiving font sizes, owing to the 783,000 words crammed into a single normal-sized book (the average novel, by comparison, clocks in at 70,000-100,000 words). Cheap faux-leather covers. A bookmark ribbon, maybe. If you're a person of faith, it's perhaps not the most fitting frame for what is defined as the literal word of God. If you're a design zealot, it's heretical object quality. If you're both, well-prayers.
30 of the Best Book Covers for April 2025 – PRINT Magazine

1 month ago | printmag.com | Zachary Petit

If you’ve been reading this column for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen Luísa Dias’ book covers. From her home base of Lisbon, she has been putting a fresh spin on genre work and weird fiction at large—so this month we checked in with her about her jackets for the independent house Wild Hunt Books, in particular her designs for the publisher’s pocket-sized Northern Weird Series. The rest of our favorite covers of April—including some we missed last month (ope!)—follow.
¿Y si tus películas favoritas se convirtieran en libros vintage?

1 month ago | fastcompany.mx | Zachary Petit

De niño, Matt Stevens y su vecino solían prepararse para un partido de fútbol americano. Stevens siempre era de los Cowboys. Su vecino, de los Steelers. El único problema era que casi nunca terminaban el partido. “Nos quedábamos sin tiempo porque pasaba mucho tiempo haciendo el cartel del partido”, dice Stevens.
Your favorite movies, reimagined as old book covers

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

As a kid, Matt Stevens and his neighbor used to hunker down and get set up for a game of flick football. Stevens was always the Cowboys. His neighbor was always the Steelers. Only problem was, they barely ever got to finish the game itself. “We would oftentimes run out of time, because I would spend so long making the poster for the game,” Stevens says.
Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site-and it's brilliant

2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

If you've ever been to a Nashville honky-tonk, you've witnessed the chorus of cowboy boots, the thrumming acoustic guitars, the roadhouse neon, the Stetsons, the buoyant bourbon-and-barbecue-fueled energy.
Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site—and it’s brilliant | Flipboard

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Petit

16 hours agoTikTok Tourism Is Ruining AntarcticaAntarctica was once considered a pristine land that would forever go unsullied by humanity’s worst instincts to pollute and degrade every area on earth. Things have changed. Antarctica is now getting hit from all sides—from climate change melting ice sheets, to garbage floating in from long …1 hour agoTourism is the next casualty in Trump's trade war. Our economy might not recover.