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A colourful cartoon poster advertising holidays in North Wales. The poster features a man and woman canoeing in the foreground, with a green train in the background. Behind them are illustrations of Conwy Castle, Snowdonia, and other Welsh landmarks. The text reads "NORTH WALES" in bold letters, with the tagline "UNSURPASSED IN THE VARIETY OF ITS HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS—YOU GET THERE QUICKLY BY TRAIN" at the bottom. British Railways logo is also present.

For St. David's Day, presenting this delightful British Railways poster from 1963 promoting holidays in North Wales, with artwork by Reginald Lander. "Unsurpassed in its variety" and "you get there quickly by train", it boasts. It still is, and you still can 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Early Mac OS setup screen with three radio-button options: “Take me to the Internet,” “Tell me more about the Internet,” and “I’m not ready for the Internet,” with the last option selected and a cursor pointing at it.

You know what's really wild is that we once had the chance to opt out of all of this

Screenshot of a social media poll by “the-unflappablewolf” asking “Who would you trust more?” with results showing 94.7% for “total stranger in a Star Trek shirt” and 5.3% for “total stranger in a Star Wars shirt,” with over 83,000 votes.

Saying this as someone who grew up far more into Star Wars, the split on this poll is absolutely correct

Underground Music Magazine, the 1980s. Designed by Rod Clark. designreviewed.com/archive/ #underground #musicmagazine #rodclark #80sdesign #typography

Zuckerberg has finally gone from Hot or Not to Cold or Not

Wait hear me out

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Idea 53, 1962. Cover design by Ivan Chermayeff.
#ivanchermayeff www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...

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No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic

some days at work I reach a point where if one more person talks to me about AI, I'm going to make them donate to a charity of my choosing

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Free tools for better businessing, from Studioworks A free collection of interactive tools and resources. From bookkeeping and tax prep to writing tricky client emails, it’s your small business spirit guide.

BIG NEW THING! For the last few months I’ve been building free interactive business tools and they’re live today!!

There’s a Bookkeeping Wizard (to do complex bookkeeping without Quickbooks!), and tools for pricing work, budgeting, and more!

library.studioworks.app

'The Gamma Gambit', a short Marvel comic strip featuring Spider-Man and the Hulk was published as a novelty toilet paper roll in 1979. Image shows the packaging and the roll itself.

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

Acrobat screengrab with a nonsense link to Generate Podcast

I was just using Acrobat for, you know, print production, but realised I should have, of course, been generating a podcast.

#sillyme

I've been working in software and content for like 20 years and these are some of the most batshit requirements for a job I've seen
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the limits of imperfection as a design strategy As AI and digital tools make polish effortless, analogue imperfection has taken on new cultural weight. But what does “analogue” actually mean when most things are made, shared, and consumed digitally...

My first @its-nice-that.bsky.social column of the year is about faking imperfection (fauxbi-sabi) and what it means to have a resurgence of analog aesthetics without analog tools 📷
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Point: medieval life was unrelenting horror, a daily onslaught of ignorance, barbarity, and pestilence

Counterpoint: you got to knock off work when the sun went down

Art Price in Minneapolis has the equipment to print on t-shirts and will do it for free if you bring your own clothing!

"You don’t know your role yet, maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.”

#FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #DefundICE

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Hello, I’m Jas!

I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂‍↕️

I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.

I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚

#portfolioday

oh no apple music no no no

Pixie! 🧚‍♂️

It is Super Bowl Sunday for scaries