Profile avatar
danielgray.com
Book designer, York danielgray.com / meanwhile.substack.com
2,043 posts 2,801 followers 324 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Looking for some real life inspiration for a Loki book. Anyone know kids who can suggest annoying things their brothers do...? Dm if said sibling would like anonymity/deniability... bonus points if they're younger brothers...

This thread is excellent and just keeps on going

This post should be a meme. It should be trotted out on a daily basis in response to all the idiotic comments people make about bluesky.

FINALLY NEW KAREN PIRIE

baffling why this guy doesn’t have his own property show

Peter Blake, Beach Boys, 1964

everyone shush for ten minutes, I’m putting Marquee Moon on

please be in character please be in character please be in character please be in character

Rewatched 28 Days Later for first time in years. Completely forgot that the entire premise is kicked off by David Schneider making monkeys watch the news until they get really cross.

fitter happier

today’s studio tunes

The Book Box is back! Edition 2 is now available on pre-order. shop.itemzero.com/products/the... A 20 piece set demonstrating binding techniques. 799 euros.

Alert Sound xkcd.com/3100/

Can’t wait to see what cinematic treat the cinema has laid on for father’s d— oh for crying out

A cartoon from my next book. Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.

The responses ask all the right questions of John and the other Unbound/Boundless execs.

And the word of 2025 is … schmaccessibility

cupertino right now

PP Arnold by Gered Mankowitz, 1968

Loving Apple’s new lead balloon aesthetic

There’s a complacency when we hear AI is going to be used in advertising cos we might despise advertising as not really creative etc. Apart from being wrong, without the training ground of ads you don’t get Jim Henson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ridley Scott, Jon Glazer, Andy Warhol and Salman Rushdie

The continued macbookification of the iPad is very impressive, but until I can edit an InDesign file on there it’s still just a big iPhone

Startling figure from @daringfireball.bsky.social: “Google pay Apple over $20 billion per year for the traffic Safari sends to Google Search … somewhere between 20–25 percent of all Apple’s profit comes from that one deal.”

Probably not intentional, but Craig Federighi just sounds like he’s taking the piss out of, well, everyone with this exclamation: ”Wow! More windows, a pointier pointer and a menu bar? Who’d have thought? We've truly pulled off a mindblowing release!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Dj...

I'm absolutely done with 'death of' stories but good god, that cover by Dike Ruan is gorgeous.

select your youtuber voice

Cat Cafe.

Earl Leaf, Discothèque Paradise, Paris, 1948 / E.O. Hoppé, British Museum underground station. 1937. Can never look at one of these without thinking of the other.

Umm …