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Pook is a nimble design studio in Hampshire dedicated to helping businesses thrive through playful and clever creative work. https://pook.design/
Actually in our newsletter we see our very own @aledlewis.bsky.social is back in the news with the arrival of the Boyo Tapestry to these shores. He's Welsh. Oh forget it. Potato fonts! A Gravity Falls art book! (via @danielgray.com). Other stuff! pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Bins 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...
Cut-out Witch – Pook
We made board game. We made font. We made shop. We no write newsletters. We been busy.
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Cuckoos. Weird aren't they? If you hear one pour yourself a beer. I've been coding our new shop while playing with RISO inks and Aled has nearly finished our first font. Sign up on our website and receive a weekly newsletter filled with conversation stoppers. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Cuckoo ale all round! – Pook
Cuckoos. Weird aren’t they? If you hear one pour yourself a beer. I’ve been coding our new shop while playing with RISO inks and Aled has nearly finished …
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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 …
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Hiya, 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...
Pomp, Hey and Circumstance – Pook
This week we’ve been scuttling around in Glyphs 3 making fonts, wondering how we are going to deal with kids off for Easter, and oggling at a new grim folk …
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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 …
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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 …
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After a week of Figma and Google Docs we are ready for the weekend. This week's 15th newsletter brings you another stupid Groundnut Scheme idea from an "architect" who should know better, a dotty duo from Quebec and some brilliant TV to distract you from the world. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Not getting better together – Pook
After a week of Figma and Google Docs we are ready for the weekend. This week’s 15th newsletter brings you another stupid idea from an “architect” …
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Hello fellow bipeds. This week we've started work on a font. We squint through our fingers at a new anti-everything movement from @profgalloway.com and try to destroy the universe as an evil egg. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Unplug the scumbilicus – Pook
This week we’ve started work on a font. We squint through our fingers at a new anti-everything movement from Scott Galloway and try to destroy the universe as an …
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In this week's newsletter (#13 🪓🔪) we peek at an interesting camera called Muybridge (see what they did there), start and finish the latest excellent @inkle.co game TR-49 in a week, being listening to a list of 1000 albums as well as admire the wobbly wigs and sets in Stranger Things. Phew!
I believe in you and your PowerPoints – Pook
In this week’s newsletter we peek at an interesting camera, start and finish a video game in a week, being listening to a list of 1000 albums and admire the …
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Vote for this Lego Idea RIGHT NOW! (Via Pressing Matters) by @legoprintpress (Instagram). Yes, they work! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas
The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…
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A return of the newsletter that always promises, yet succeeds, to deliver so little. We blab on about ourselves (obvs), Saint Mars of the Desert brewery, an Olivetti book you can buy from @presentcorrect.bsky.social, and spaghetti-obsessives, The Wave Pictures. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Beer, spaghetti and Olivetti – Pook
With our faces to the walls time* over, we return to the newsletter that always promises, yet succeeds, to deliver so little. A project finishes as a new one hoves …
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While discussing our studio playlist plan for 2026, we were delighted to discover @1001albumsgen.bsky.social which has saved us hours of deliberation. Fresh album suggestions served every day. Now to listen to them all before we die. Now playing Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 🦇
My humans have been busy working on new branding and website for UK financial wizards Elucid Partners. elucidpartners.co.uk
A trusted partner for better transactions – Elucid
Elucid provides senior level CFO strategic financial direction, expert market insights and hands-on transactional experience to get the best deal for your business.
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On time for once, here is newsletter # 11 , in which we rail against stupid leaders, gulp at the price of memory and Gallic shrug at the end of the world. Happy weekend everyone! pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Stupid is as stupid told me to – pook.design
Newsletter # 11. In which we rail against stupid leaders, gulp at the price of memory and Gallic shrug at the end of the world.
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Greetings Seedlings of Eve – Newsletter #10 to ossify your tentacles. National Illustration day scribbled past (via @tormalore on IG), @piccalil.li offers its excellent design courses for a bargain & we finally play Arcs from @leder.games (until the kittens attack) pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Molly Wopper – pook.design
In newsletter #10 it’s National Illustration Day don’t you know. We give a shout out to Piccalilli’s deal on training courses and we finally get to …
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Here's newsletter #9 and while we’ve been tapping away on our keyboards coding stuff, we have been laughing at AI generated Christmas banners, getting killed by naked scarecrows (thanks @seanrleahy.bsky.social ) and listening to The Stone Roses (first album only). pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Hieronymous Tosh – pook.design
It’s newsletter #9 and while we’ve been tapping away on our keyboards coding stuff, we have been laughing at AI generated Christmas banners with monstrous …
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Beautiful 🦉☕
Mat Pringle@matpringle.bsky.social · 9mo agoO is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
Afternoon fellow Elves and Goblins. In The Wood Pile's newsletter #8 we continue to group and ungroup things in Figma, while waiting for the AI bubble to burst like a pustulent buboe. Also Aliens, cats and new shiny things from Steam. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Easy peasy – pook.design
In newsletter #8 we continue to group and ungroup things in Figma, while waiting for the AI bubble to erupt like a pustulent buboe. Also Aliens, cats and new shiny …
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Hello! I missed telling you about Friday’s newsletter. JE has been reading books in Kefalonia while AL stayed at home making a load of micro animations for a client project. Also stuff about Affinity, expensive flaps and Turnstile. pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Spinning flaps – pook.design
Newsletter #7 is finally here to tickle your curious toes. Half of us have been sunning themselves while the other is elbows deep in After Effects.
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Purchased a copy of General Witchfinders to see if any of the family are mentioned. Also purchased @wyrdscience.bsky.social latest issues.
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur Samhain horror 'zine is out now: 76 pages of fresh nightmares, haunted nostalgia, and British strangeness. A fine fireside read for the turning of the year. #GeneralWitchfinders #Zine #HorrorZine #BritishHorror Buy it here tinyurl.com/gwZINE Please repost
It’s good to see some old chums having a good time!
Mat Pringle@matpringle.bsky.social · 10mo ago‘Combining my love of folklore and stupid dances here are some linocut mummers. Mummers were (are) cavorting masked performers in folk play or mime often demanding food or booze for their efforts. The hare mummer is dancing like a goofball to the quiet bit in 'Blisters in the Sun'…’
Afternoon Humans. We’re not going away are we? This week we’ve been planning a project management system, working on a client website and looking at weird robot films. What have you been up to? pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Powerful Metal Leaders – pook.design
It’s newsletter #6. We have started building a project management system called Oric while watching uncanny videos of robots cleaning houses that don’t need cleaning …
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We present to you a newsletter to which nobody subscribes. Good ‘ere innit? This week: Projects, Escape the Dark Castle V2 from @themeborne, a steam sale bargain and some other trifles. Say hello and follow along using your favourite echo chamber ber ber ber ber ber… pook.design/the-wood-pil...
Escape the Dark Task List – pook.design
Dropbox. More like Plopbox. Also: Project management on a shoestring, Escape the Dark Castle redux, and there’s a Steam sale on so we’ve been furkling down …
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