First test print of Gardens of Resistance postcard sets with custom packaging 🤓 coming to holiday markets in Dec 🎄 Didn't realize how much I missed designing foldable structures until I was messing with this. 🤓

Hey artists and creatives: If you post things on Pinterest - Go to Settings > Privacy & Data Scroll down, turn off Gen AI

This was my wind down after a day of design work and some sticker printing apprenticeship fun. I always start off a doodle book with something on the inside of the cover, so that it's immediately no longer perfect and blank and can therefore be filled with any garbage and still be perfect.

Thanks to a clear request for allyship, I found a new app that is actively anti-ai, supports creatives of every skill level, and is gorgeous encouragement to stay connected to making art daily. Go check out @doodl-app.bsky.social And find me on there with same username as here. 🤓

This thread is a study in one person offering feedback and/or information, and another taking that new information in and taking action. Truly wish everyone could read this.

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ@saimihanma.northsky.social · last mo.

Hey @doodl-app.bsky.social, tomorrow's prompt really isn't okay. Spirit animals are reserved for Native Americans, we don't have a right to claim them. Please change it.

Went card shopping for my girlfriend's birthday a few days ago. Got surprised by my own work while browsing. 🤓 😂 I did know that I was walking into a shop that stocks some things I make, but somehow, it was still surprising in the best way.

Reminder/unpopular opinion : SEO is a keyword search. You can make it more complicated if you want to. Of course there are nuances. But functionally, you are making sure that your site has the words in it that people are likely to type in a search when they're looking for your business.

Getting ready for Valley Made Market this Sunday. New sticker designs - like Art Inside (pictured on my laptop) are making their debut. Also taking a fresh crop of bookmarks and something that I can't wait to share later this week, but it's so new it's still on my computer. 🤓

Thank you for this moment of perspective and an inspiration to appreciate my dear, darling doggo. I am thankful for the smol floofy floof that is snoring louder than a people on the couch, upside down, against my leg.

Christine Parker@christineparkerco.com · 2mo ago

I am so grateful to our ancestors for spending thousands of years domesticating wolves and breeding them down into tiny purse sized wolves so I could enjoy this warm little fur slug on my lap in the year of our lord 2026

NEW things!! Or a return to old things in multiple ways? Both, really. In a celebratory (likely messy) move - I'll be screen printing in my booth at Valley Made Market this Sunday. 🥳 New design. I'll have some thrifted things for purchase to print on, or you can BYO thing to print on.

Doing the last bits of clean up on illustrations before I drop them into poster layouts and send them off to the client. Can't wait to share this whole thing - it's big and beautiful and it's got good work to go do real soon. 🚜👷🏾‍♂️🏔️🧑🏼‍🌾👨🏾‍⚕️🌾

Swipe to wind back the progress clock. Working on wrapping up my first commissioned illustration project in a good number of years. Feels like a gorgeous sort of homecoming. This is part of a WPA poster style piece commissioned for a local scholarship fund.

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

Who me, zoom in to 447.15% and manually select pieces from a stock vector that was constructed in the worst possible way because I have a very specific way that I need/want to use it? Absolutely! 🤓 I'm gonna group this the way I need it damnit. #GraphicDesign #VectorEditing #VectorIllustration

I made a shirt a few months back. Tiny script type type reads "Fuck the Fascist Hatemongering Bullshit". Feeling like I need to make another design that says that BIGGER. Wearing it so much lately that I'm gonna have to get myself a second one.

I did design things *for myself* this weekend. And it made me very happy. Keeps making me happy if I'm totally honest. The whole conversation about it is happening on my personal feed.

Amy@amkdcreates.bsky.social · 2y ago

ALSO - I'm a graphic designer. So when I'm confronted with non-functional layouts - I fix them. So friends, meet my new character sheet. Made to be easier to read; landscape to fit better in a notebook; re-grouped for less mid-combat searching; more room to write things; adding the new 2024 details

Just popping in with an illustration I did, that I made into a poster, and t-shirt, and this cute magnet that's hanging out on my fridge. ( business card for scale ) Make stuff that you love. You never know who else might love it. #Illustration #MadeToMakeStatements

That time arrived a long while ago. The question now is whether Democratic leaders fully understand and will act accordingly.

Hypocrisy is wanting to change the name of a body of water and then turning around to deadname trans people. #volcanicwisdom

New illustration - landing on things soon. #ReadBannedBooks #IReadBannedBooks

Thanks @bsky.app for making it easy to remember to add alt text to images. Go to Settings > Accessibility Then check the box. Couldn't be easier.

Hey video creators, makers & artists - check out what these guys are saying - and especially - peep those stats from December at about :45 sec. YouTube shorts are getting more eyes than Netflix and Prime. Where and how you show up with your brand matters. Show up where people are already looking.

Scott Galloway@profgalloway.com · 2y ago

Teaser excerpt from our conversation with Richard Greenfield, partner and TMT analyst at LightShed, arguing that YouTube is the gangster TV platform in 2025. Episode drops tomorrow (1/23). Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

When I start feeling like I'm doing fancy, new, big things as a designer or illustrator - I like to dig into an archive like @publicdomainrev.bsky.social and remind myself that creative folks have being doing fancy, new, big things for a very long time.

Friends & Coworkers: Another social media account? Me: Have you seen the news? Also me: Not 'another' - trading the fascist misinformation machines in on the newer, less hate-filled version that *actually* prioritizes free speech.

Hovercraft Full of Eels ❌👑 🖕🧊@hvrcrftfullofeels.bsky.social · 2y ago

infuriatingly and unsurprisingly, yes. www.independent.co.uk/tech/faceboo...

Recent work that I'm falling more in love with the longer I get to hang out with it. #FavoriteSeason #WNGB #MadeToMakeStatements wordpictureink.com

This little corner of Sky is under the purview of a graphic designer & artist who is also lesbian/queer, actively anti-racist, anti-censorship, anti-fascist, in favor of bodily autonomy for all, was raised to honor Mother Nature (climate change is real), and trusts facts+science over misinformation.