Jonathan Elliman
@ellimondo.bsky.social
Shire-dwelling beer-swilling pixel-pusher
We added a shop to the website. A very small shop. (And a font but shhh there is 20% off to be had)
Pook@pook.design · 4w agoBins are in the news. Where we bin? We made board game. We made font. We made shop. We no write newsletters. We bin busy. This weeks' newsletter contains loads of stuff. I'm not going to tell you what it is. Go and check it out yourself. Off you pop. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Helmet illustrations for the cover of '60 Years in Space' ttrpg. Available here… half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-... #illustration #SciFi #ttrpg
Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...
theguardian.com
@generalwitch.bsky.social I listened to your excellent Horror Express episode today (bit behind) and weirdly found the film on iPlayer. Giggling along now. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Horror Express
Gothic horror in which an English palaeontologist discovers a frozen monster which thaws out on the train journey home and runs amok onboard the Trans-Siberian Express.
bbc.co.uk
This week I’ve been avoiding Americans in Italy (hard), while Aled’s been avoiding his children at home (impossible). Here’s another dose of design-adjacent links and thoughts for your weary souls including Paula Sher, The Stone Tape, Design Reviewed book and rats. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Rats wouldn't have left that Spam – Pook
This week I’ve been avoiding Americans in Italy (hard), while Aled’s been avoiding his children at home (impossible). Here’s another dose of …
pook.design
I completely love this mag. Please support weird shit.
Wyrd Science Magazine@wyrdscience.bsky.social · 4mo agowhat if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes? featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
Here is a preview of Pook Fat (or Pook Chonk) in development in Glyphs. Coming some time this century from @pook.design 😜
Yet another Pook newsletter has sloughed from its fetid egg sack and slopped into being. Enjoy!
Pook@pook.design · 4mo agoHiya, us again. In this week's newsletter we try out Glyphs from @glyphsapp.com, ogle a beautiful grimoire, gravid with grim folk art from @gravegoodspub.bsky.social, while trying to work out what the fuck we're going to do with the kids for the next two weeks. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
The Shire has gone full on Spring Mode just like our website. We've been beavering away on an app design project. We have a new iPad which is as disappointing as Google's new AI design tool Stitch. At least there are now Tintin LEGO minifigs in the world. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Catastrophisation – Pook
The Shire has gone full on Spring Mode as has our site. We’ve been beavering away. We have a new iPad which is as disappointing as Google’s new AI design …
pook.design
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Spring sale! 💀⛏️🩸 It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...
Client request for email signature – 100% grumpiness guaranteed. Ask for animation and expect fury.
Books of February. Kingmaker – Winter Pilgrims by Toby Clements – Medieval romp; TMI on anal fistula removal – 3/5 The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers – sweary crime gang saga; Happy Valley the early years – 3/5 What We Can Know by Ian McEwan – Sci-fi with flooded UK drowning in nostalgia – 5/5
I just cleaned out under the kitchen bookshelf and have retrieved the ultimate in middle class detritus: A LEGO space nose cone, a collection of oil painting brushes, an Apple Airpod Pro earpiece and a sad-looking kumquat.
Sökning @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-cal...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth Illustrated by Baranger - Free League Publishing
Fascinated by New England’s haunted past, a young man journeys through its ancient towns on his way to Arkham. Offered a detour through Innsmouth – an isolated coastal settlement dreaded by its neighb...
freeleaguepublishing.com
Sweet 16. Although it's not sweet, it's full of bees. Who should be sweet but are in fact very bitter. About this government. Also Indie foundries*, future maps and a Dig Dug clone by yours truly. pook.design/the-wood-pil... * This appears to be shutdown!
Never say ideating again – Pook
Sweet 16. Although it’s not sweet, it’s full of bees. Who should be sweet but are in fact very bitter. About this government. Also Indie Foundries, Future …
pook.design
It's half term and Bug and I made a silly game called Dig Bug. digbug.netlify.app
Dig Bug
digbug.netlify.app
🎉 New Blogpost 🎉 Building Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/bui... What if we could create a typographic scale for headings with one line of CSS? One rule to scale them all. #CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev
Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow()
Learn how to build flexible, mathematical typographic scales using :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() for cleaner CSS design systems.
alwaystwisted.com
I think I've gone a bit mad reading this book. I have added some more real and imagined locations to the map. The novel is really McEwan's best in years and I highly recommend it. It reminds me of David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) with more nobbing and less clones.
Jonathan Elliman@ellimondo.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm currently reading What we can know by Ian McEwan and idly wondered, as you do, what it would look like round here if Marlborough was indeed a port. Here's a preview of 2119. flooded-britain-2119.netlify.app
