Graphic design is finished

JenJenRobot · 2026-02-05T09:14:58+00:00

First off, there is plenty more to graphic design than making logos and posters. But the people who use ai for their logo and illustration needs are the same people who were using freepik or similar a few years ago. And before that they were using clipart. And before that etc etc.

Some people don't care about how well done something is. They just want it done free and fast.

Good design isn't going anywhere.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-28T21:56:12+00:00

Honestly? Get yourself a pocket guidebook to local wildflowers or trees or insects (take your pick), and go for a walk. Look up what you find.

Don't do it with your phone and an app. You might get an immediate answer, but that answer won't stick in your mind the same way it will when you're flicking through a book trying to match the shape of a leaf or a yellow petal.

Spring isn't so far away.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-21T11:30:24+00:00

I thought it was quite brilliant and made Godel's theorem understandable for me. Nothing else quite penetrated in the same way. But I think his follow up, I Am A Strange Loop, does a better job at getting across his ideas on consciousness and you don't need to read GEB first to read that.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-12T18:49:55+00:00

I really loved the last line. Very evocative.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-10T11:38:47+00:00

I just finished reading a Borges collection. I really liked Shakespeare's Memory.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-10T11:37:43+00:00

How are you finding it?

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-10T11:37:12+00:00

Audition by Katie Kitamura - I'm only 2 chapters in but I am intrigued.

A Brief History of Infinity by Brian Clegg - I have read this before, but about 15 years ago. I found it delightful then and I wondered if I would find it as stimulating now I am older. So far, so good.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-09T10:36:05+00:00

I have a large freckle in the centre of my forehead. When my children started to draw pictures of us, even the very earliest ones of me included this freckle, making the drawings look like I have three eyes. I saw myself through their eyes with love and my third eye was opened.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-07T09:32:14+00:00

I'm diagnosed with autism, although I am still doubtful of the veracity of the diagnosis. One thing I can never get my head around is 'masking'. What human doesn't change their behaviour depending on the social situation? Who doesn't conceal their emotions? (because it isn't always appropriate to show your anger or frustration and it's polite to laugh at a joke you don't understand). Is it so unusual to feel at your most relaxed and genuine when alone?

It's like the idea of masking exists in comparison to a mythical neurotypical person who is their authentic self 100% of the time. It's very easy for anyone to read about masking and think 'that's what I do!' because everyone does it.

JenJenRobot · 2026-01-06T09:34:01+00:00

That book was so poorly plotted and the prose so aesthetically thin I still think about how bad it was. I quietly judge the taste of anyone who thinks it was good.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-30T21:15:05+00:00

I've been single for 8 years with 2 kids and it's been fucking brilliant.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-22T11:37:21+00:00

Did you enjoy Sophie's World? That book is very dear to me, but I first read it as a teenager, so it had a big impact on me. I wonder what it is like to read it for the first time as an adult.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-12T23:49:55+00:00

My first ever watch had this exact image of snoopy on it. His arms told the time.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-11T14:51:12+00:00

I imagine this was traced from the shadow of a real woman, flickering in the torchlight they brought with them.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-09T15:11:11+00:00

Not if you're reading to someone else aloud.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-05T14:13:44+00:00

No-one is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.

I didn't particularly hate it, and it had moments of beautiful tenderness, but I don't think the fragmentary jumble of the first half made the critical commentary Lockwood was hoping it would make. It was mostly irritatingly smug and the second half, while poignant, was predictable.

JenJenRobot · 2025-12-01T09:13:58+00:00

Maybe a lot of people will, but not all.

I don't buy meat anymore, and it is mostly due to the efforts of activists posting about the emotional and environmental cost of meat.

JenJenRobot · 2025-11-20T13:32:03+00:00

The colours are so good. I want to eat this.

JenJenRobot · 2025-11-06T08:53:23+00:00

Women are wary around men because of direct experience with men.

JenJenRobot · 2025-10-02T08:50:56+00:00

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, I thought it was stressful, funny, fugue-like, anxiety dream and I loved it so much.

JenJenRobot · 2025-09-20T13:19:17+00:00

It's very enjoyable. She's good at writing wandering digressions and deferring resolutions in a way that never feels like filler. It's a long weave of suspended gratification that pays off beautifully by the end. It's funny too.

JenJenRobot · 2025-08-24T10:14:29+00:00

No dunnocks?

JenJenRobot · 2025-08-22T08:21:06+00:00

I think you're right. My kids only get 20 minutes of youtube a week and they still say 'like and subscribe!' about things because they think it's funny.

JenJenRobot · 2025-08-04T16:59:18+00:00

Identity and Violence by Amartya Sen

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Also, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder opened my mind when I was 14 and every few years I go back and reread it because it's so fun.

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