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Home from the Sea, by Juliet Turner 4 track album

Juliet Turner is an amazing Irish singer-songwriter. I co-wrote and produced her new record, now on Bandcamp. julietturner.bandcamp.com/album/home-f....

I also made a web app as an antidote to the soulless horror of Spotify: julietturner.music - a modern day liner notes experience.

Enjoy ♥️♥️♥️

BOOK ONE — Presale Planned to be finished by November 1st, 2025, the first Mundo Mendo Book is being printed in a Tokyo printing house as we speak. Open to orders now.

Here’s the link www.mundomendo.com/books/

＊NEW BOOK ALERT＊ This beauty is being printed as we speak (the pictured is a mockup):

272 full colour pages with the best stories from the Mundo Mendo website. Foreword by @craigmod.com

Presale is open at
MundoMendo.com/books
Become a SEMIBOLD (or BOLD Member) to get it for free.

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Some advice: “finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself. if you want to be able to finish large, complex projects, you have to _practice finishing things_. which usually means doing smaller projects.” [bsky.app]

More than 500 children's authors, illustrators & educators have signed a statement on Palestine including @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Sir Michael Morpurgo, Chris Riddell OBE, Lauren Child CBE & @chrishaughton.bsky.social
Find out more 👉 statement-on-palestine.org

Pith® Sketchbooks, notebooks and paper art materials Makers of paper art materials for maximum creative functionality/ minimal environmental impact. Designed, printed, bound and hand-finished by Pith® in the UK

Check out the Pith sketchbooks, I've been using them for a couple of years and they're excellent, they open fully flat as well www.pithsupply.com

YouTube video by Depeche Mode - Topic It's No Good

Such a great tune 👌

Another great one for testing speakers is Depeche Mode's It's No Good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-c...

Cognitive resistance training is the defense against slop and brainrot. “Every hard task you delegate is a rep you didn’t do, a pattern your neurons didn’t carve deeper.” [pauljun.substack.com]

Sketchbook spread of ink drawing showing trees in a park and a cat

Sketchbook spread of ink and pastel drawing showing several cat heads

Sketchbook spread of ink drawing showing four cats peeking over a fence

Sketchbook spread of ink drawing showing a cat and a dog

It’s #internationalcatday and since my little daughter loves cats, plenty of them show up regularly in my sketchbooks. Here are some recent ones 😊

Sketchbook spread with drawing of a garden corner using multi coloured pastels

It's great to switch tools every now and then. It helps reset your working habits and see things from a slightly different perspective. You can always return to your favourite tools, of course, but there's also a good chance you might find some new favourites. Neocolor 2 pastels & Pith sketchbook.

Issue 1 of The Illustrated is out, highlighting the work of @katherinelam.bsky.social @jenniferdionisio.com and Cristina Estanislao

https://pencilbooth.com/takes/c89a408d-0d2c-4cb0-8402-1f722168c1c2

Issue 2 of The Illustrated is up. All Japanese illustrators this time.

https://pencilbooth.com/takes/90d44b0a-0a8c-45bb-8a82-83a06e42f247

To celebrate the recent redesign and because I feel grateful to all humans today, I am giving away a free one month membership to MundoMendo.com for a limited time.

Stories, comics & art for fellow humans.
www.mundomendo.com/onemonthfree

Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep? Do yourself a favor and watch this: Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she absolutely blisters the paint off of the walls with h

Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep? Musical theater major Erin Morton absolutely blisters the paint off of the walls with her performance. Wow. I actually got some goosebumps watching this. [kottke.org]

Strife is Life in defense of difficulty

This take on AI-made pictures is the best I've read since the madness started. Roman Muradov is always so sharp and good at his thinking – and drawing, and writing-.

dadaissues.substack.com/p/strife-is-...

Sketchbook spread by Alan Fletcher with various sketches

Sketchbook spread by Alan Fletcher with a black ink drawing of a garden

Sketchbook spreads by Iancu Barbarasa, various subjects (flowers, urban views, books on a table, mug silhouette, tree with red leaves)

“You are taught to talk, read and write, but no one seems to teach you how to perceive. […] You don’t really see something unless you draw it, or at least unless you mentally draw it. It makes you look at things.” — Alan Fletcher

Great to write about Alan's sketchbooks
mailchi.mp/fletcheretc/...

Gymnastics - Japanese Regqae - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English Reggae emerged in the 1960s and in 1985 Wayne Smith's Under Mi Sleng Teng revolutionised the genre. But the riddim of this famous song didn't come from the island - it was written by a Japanese woman,...

My dear friend @iancul.bsky.social sent me this today... it's so charming. A story about how a Japanese woman programmed a loop into the Casiotone MT-40 in the early 80s which got used on a monster reggae track. Her inspiration for the loop? Watch and see ♥️

www.arte.tv/en/videos/10...

Such a beautiful book, Luis's work is always inspiring 👌

Alan Fletcher's sketchbooks, a never-ending source of inspiration. I was invited to write about Alan's sketchbooks and how they've inspired my own practice. — Sign up to the newsletter for insights into Alan’s work including some rare and unseen works and personal anecdotes.

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❗️ PSA ❗️: Pinterest has updated its policies, including about how it trains its generative AI models. However, there is an option in Pinterest account settings to opt out of their GenAI being trained on your Pins, as shown in the screenshot here.

So inspiring to follow Craig's members' programme over the last few years — and Craig is especially kind in sharing what he's learned

Will do, thanks very much Alistair!

​Friends, I'm moving soon & I need to let go of many design books from my collection (including some rare ones too)? Is ebay the most convenient? Or do you know any specialised shops or sellers I could talk to? Thanks very much!

£126bn and 2.4 million people.

That’s the size of the creative industries in the UK and every DCMS Minister has had to fight HMT and Number 10 over support.

That’s about 10x the size of the motor industry and 4 x more productive.

Fishing? Less than £500 million.

Screenshot: Brian feels strongly that commercial art created with generative AI is unethical because it is trained on the work of human artists without their consent, and its use threatens the existence of entire creative disciplines. If your organization promotes, celebrates, accepts, or condones the use of commercial art created with generative AI, please know in advance that Brian will not accept your invitation.

Added the following disclaimer to the speaker/critic page of my website. 💙❤️
www.brianlarossa.com/speaker_and_...

Always a huge pleasure working with Stevie, this was such a fun project 👌

Find out more about it here on my website: iancul.com/project/the-...

And check out the Veltrons music, of course 😉

Honestly if we were to rewrite The First Things First Manifesto for 2025 it could just be about creative communities holding hands against AI.

I teach the history of technological disruption. History tells me this is different. It does not end well. We have to hold hands.

Okay revised the starter pack description to make it clearer.

If u r a designer or illustrator please boost this to help me find other hiring directors.

If u r an art, design, or creative director who hires designers and/or illustrators, raise your hand—I’ll add u.

go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

Also, since the chair is just one solid piece of plastic, you could paint it yourself in any way you like (or use coloured tape). You could have a “different” chair every month 😎