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Robin Wilde

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InDesign in the streets, Photoshop in the sheets. Creative Director at @wildebeest.design

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · Apr 10

Some news! From July I'll be shifting to full-time freelancing ahead of my return to the UK next year. If you or any friends, colleagues, or nemeses have any need of creative support, including design, writing, and creative project planning, I'd love to have a chat. Portfolio here: robinwilde.me

Robin Wilde - Freelance Graphic Design in the Pacific Northwest

Freelance graphic designer in Seattle and Vancouver

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 46m

Looking through my Google Photos for work and got jump scared by this 👻

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1h

100% - think the best anti-corporate messaging is always "here are these cool/fun/convenient alternatives" and I know there is a lot of that about!

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2h

Turns out: moving to a Canadian mountaintop means it can get *quite cold*. Jumper and heating have been on for an hour and my office is still chilly.

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STABITHA🔪🔪🔪 @crabitha.slutmo.de · 4h

Every designer and photoshopper you know has spent hours or days trying to mimic this look in photoshop without just literally hand-painting everything and, it simply cannot be done

There are thousands of tutorials out there that are like “This is sorta pretty close! I think!”

James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 4h

Fuck. A generational loss.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2h

I think one inverse of this on the left is trying to make societal advice into individual advice. "Billionaires have excessive influence and this should be curbed" easily gets heard as "You personally are bad for ordering from Amazon", because our brains are wired to make everything personal.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2h

Sadly, I was referring to Indian Pale Ale.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2h

I still like the idea of Border Force administering quizzes on phonemes, the IPA and a discursive/argumentative text. (Subs please check, my memory of the curriculum is 13 years out of date)

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2h

In BC we have the funny situation of largely municipally-run water (which is therefore rolled into property taxes and not billed directly) but a provincially-owned electric company which does bill customers, and which leads to people talking about paying their "Hydro bill" when they mean power.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4h

Nature giving us some very childish frozen puddles today

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 5h

My heuristic of "you can't be that famous, that young and not have a terrible fall coming" is a sad but worthwhile long-term investment.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 5h

Yeah the youngest age cohorts missing, respectively, early childhood socialisation, adolescent character building, and 20s career development and dating years, means we've got a troublingly big pile of issues to work through. I had pre-2020 friends who I'd have no idea how to contact now.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 5h

Terribly McLuhanite of me but is this worsened by the available media not making space for (literally in the case of here/Twitter/short form video) complex ideas so even if you can influence people on policy, you're constrained by the need to explain it in a tiktok?

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 5h

We also need to Have A Conversation about how Interior BC is so remote and boring that people have radicalised themselves over plague ostriches

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 5h

Not enjoying the timeline where nobody is capable of being normal about anything, I have to say.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 23h

Sign that I am still Young is that current me is also most attractive me.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

"Post you from a different era" is middle-aged Bluesky code for "lemme see you when you were hot"

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

On the bright side, you've allowed dozens of people to have a nice time scolding and chiding the lesser mortals to Do Better. The world's problems should now be sorted in a matter of days.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d

Murder mystery in which someone adapts this to commit murder in a chocolate factory

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d

I mean, you joke, but!

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d

Three enormous health bars regrow across the screen

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 3d

France: President Emmanuel Macron (RE-RE) has re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu (RE-RE) as Prime Minister four days after accepting his resignation.

Lecornu will now form a new government strengthened by these two days of "last negotiations".

➤ europeelects.eu/france

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d

Yeah we frequently stay at the Marco Polo motel on Aurora (cheap and functional) so it works well enough from King Street but you are subjecting yourself to several blocks of walking or the whims of the 5 if you want to get into actual Fremont.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

I remain a bit baffled this isn't the route. It's a huge pain getting to Fremont/Ballard from the U District if your destination isn't on 45th.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

Since You've Been Gone (Rainbow): 8/10
Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson): 5/10

Total Score: 13

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 4d

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

I was once on a trivia team with an Irish friend so we used the team name These Islands, a joke nobody else within several miles would have understood

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

The light gives it away and they've sort of tried to get away with it by having the gradient over the background come from top-down but it doesn't quite work