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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The Impossible Habit of Change
Luís de Camões, Portugal’s national poet, put it in a sixteenth-century sonnet: change is the one habit we never manage to form. My grandfather, who could barely read, put it in a joke.
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The Tempest and the Blank Canvas
A month of losses at home and a change of course at work, with a strict deadline in between. Notes on how I crossed it, even if the storm still seems just as intense from…
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Farewell, Lourdes!
Lourdes was born to immigrants who traded Italy’s scarcity for a Brazilian field, and she was hoeing one when Paulo first noticed her. Here’s the goodbye we didn’t get to share.
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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…
