Can’t Understand New Technology

With inky-fingered cut-and-paste layouts and layer upon layer of irony, Can’t Understand follows firmly in the legacy of Shoreditch Twat and Private Eye (both acknowledged references).

Edited by Digit brand strategist Camilla Grey and designed by Plan-B Studio founder Steve Price, the tabloid features contributions from the likes of Laura Jordan Bombach, Flo Heiss, Simon Manchipp and Graham Wood.

Grey and Price say the aim is to report on what Silicon Roundabout really thinks about new technology.

This largely seems to comprise energetic bouts of swearing (‘Fuck Silicon Roundabout and fuck your startup’, writes Tom Kile Hartshorn, before going on to describe Shoreditch as ‘a poo rolled in cheap glitter’) and surreal humour, such as Bambach’s ‘Ad Nauseum’ TV script.

But amongst all this there’s a fair bit of insight, such as an interview with Tyler Finck, creator of the Piction app, and passionate pieces about the lack of experimentation in design (from Harry Woodrow) and moving out of London (from Stephen Fulljames).

Sent out to selected readers, Can’t Understand is only available as a hard copy – ‘it’s ironic’, say the founders.

The mag’s only online presence will be the conversations created by its readers, which can be followed on #cantunderstandnewtechnology.