Designer at Automattic.
Based in Milan, Italy.
Henrique Iamarino
@henrique@iamarino.com
Theme designer at Automattic. I write about design, technology, and classical ideas at iamarino.com.
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A Season with Shakespeare: My 2026 Readings
I came to Shakespeare late. This year I read six of his plays from a secondhand Italian-English collection, and designed a new AI cover for each to illustrate my reviews.
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The Odyssey: The Mother of All Hotdog Epics
In 1947, Black Narcissus put its leading man in shorts and sandals on a tiny pony and lost nothing for it. In 2026, The Odyssey wraps the Mediterranean in gray and drapery. Somewhere between the…
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The Odyssey: The Mother of All Stories, by Nolan
This review ends with a thumbs-up for the 2026 film, but it begins with criticism: What happens when a three-thousand-year-old poem is retold without Homer?
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Long Live Football: Football Won
A match where only one side wanted to win. It took patience, effort, and composure to avoid being drawn into the fights the other side started. In the end, they succeeded: a team with no…
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Long Live Football: Associate or Die
FIFA and sports brands will tell you stars win trophies. Don’t believe it—that’s the big Football lie.
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Long Live Football: A Red Card Is a Red Card
Red cards can be harsh, soft, or even incorrect, and the game accepts them all because the punishment is blind. What happened at the 2026 World Cup is something else: a rule manipulated for power,…
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Long Live Football: The Goal He Didn’t Score
The team that scores more wins, so the goal is football’s highest unit. The only thing that can exceed it is the wit that produces many—Pelé showed this most clearly in a goal he never…
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Long Live Football: A Cooling That Uncools
Football is the rare big game that never stops its clock, allowing momentum to build until halftime interrupts it. This summer, it is pausing once more in each half—and I wonder whether the stated reason…
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Long Live Football: Twenty-Four Thousand Hours
Just as an apprentice watches the master for years before touching the material, I learned football by watching long before my feet caught up. This is that life, measured in waking hours—on the pitch and…
