Google UX Researcher Ira Blossom Launches Sunday Club, a Print-Only Games Newspaper
Ira Blossom, a UX researcher at Google, has established Sunday Club, a newspaper that exclusively features print and carries the slogan “All games. No news.” This initiative is inspired by his passion for family game nights and his studies on screen-time fatigue, aiming to create a balance in the face of digital exhaustion. Sunday Club encourages artists to contribute ideas and is available solely in print. This debut aligns with McClatchy’s drastic layoffs, which have resulted in the loss of over 90 journalists and a 40% reduction in newsrooms across 13 publications, including the Miami Herald and Sacramento Bee. In 2025, both the Chesterton Tribune and Eagle Times ceased operations, along with 134 other local newspapers. Design Observer has noted the value of print for conveying complex information amid declining investment.
Key facts
- Ira Blossom works as a UX researcher for Google and founded the print-only newspaper Sunday Club, where he is founder and creative director.
- Sunday Club’s stated editorial position is “All games. No news.” and it is sold only in print.
- Blossom cited screen-time fatigue, general digital fatigue and a return of nostalgic media in an interview with deputy editor Rachel Paese for her Design Juice column.
- McClatchy cut more than 90 journalists and reduced newsrooms by up to 40% across 13 papers in eight states, including the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- The 141-year-old Chesterton Tribune in Indiana and the Eagle Times in New Hampshire closed in 2025, along with 134 other small local papers per Medill’s 2025 State of Local News report.
- MIT Future Fest, a five-day festival with 50 events and over 100 speakers including Kahlil Joseph, Paola Antonelli, Carlo Ratti and Skylar Tibbits, runs September 30–October 4, 2026.
- A NASA-inspired Curiosity Rover from Creative Quests, commissioned by Croydon Council, has been operating in Croydon Town Centre in South London.
- Monotype’s longest-serving employee, Pat Lightizer, who joined Compugraphic in 1973, is honored with a font named Lightizer that supports 360 languages.
Entities
Artists
- Ira Blossom
- Rachel Paese
- Ellen McGirt
- Kahlil Joseph
- Paola Antonelli
- Carlo Ratti
- Skylar Tibbits
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Pat Lightizer
- Katie Conry
- William Richardson
- John Ball
- Stephen Heller
- Cory Doctorow
- Ida Fried
- Jason Coxon
- Mike Johnson
- Donald Trump
Institutions
- Sunday Club
- McClatchy
- Miami Herald
- Sacramento Bee
- Kansas City Star
- Charlotte Observer
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Chesterton Tribune
- Eagle Times
- Medill School of Journalism
- Northwestern University
- Design Observer
- The Observatory
- Design Juice
- Draw the Line
- MIT Future Fest
- MIT
- MoMA
- Creative Quests
- Croydon Council
- Tenderloin Museum
- Smithsonian
- Kennedy Center
- Monotype
- Compugraphic
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Anthropic
- The New York Times
- Washington Post
- Axios
- Bloomberg
- NPR
- USA Today
- NewsGuild
- Rebuild Local News
- Earthjustice
- Providence
- University of Louisville
- Substack
- YouTube
- TikTok
Locations
- Indiana
- United States
- New Hampshire
- Charlotte
- Fort Worth
- Miami
- Sacramento
- Kansas City
- Washington, DC
- Renton
- Washington
- Louisville
- Kentucky
- Croydon Town Centre
- South London
- London
- United Kingdom
- Louisiana
- China
- San Francisco
- DC Mall
- New York City
- Union Square