Attention, Turtle! poster by Frantisek Zalesak, 1972

KitKat would have been funnier

And the Strait of Hormuz, which did not open

Perfect

Romeo + Juliet at 30(ish) - We Made This A reproduction of an article about Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet, on the 30th anniversary of the release of the film.

To celebrate Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet at 30(ish) – I’ve reproduced a brilliant article about the art direction of the film from the April 1997 issue of The Face.
wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Giovanni Pintori and his definitive visual language for Olivetti designreviewed.com/giovanni-pin...

Smartphone notification from the Eight Sleep app reading: “New snore alert — You snored 86 minutes more than normal last night.”

Not to brag but

A golden era

Olympic, The Official Magazine of the XII Winter Games, Lake Placid, 1980 designreviewed.com/artefacts/ol...

🚨 INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TIP ALERT 🚨

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...