Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 27/07/2026Just got a great deal on this lot of original, Polish-language Mothership paperbacks 👽 151
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 27/07/2026New favorite painter: Nataliya Bagatskaya, who mixes flat, surreal landscapes with portraits straight from the old masters. 030
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 16/07/2026Book covers that go hard: 1985 illustrated hardcover of KULL, by Robert. E. Howard. 081
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 25/06/2026Yes, I was actually angry enough to design something specifically for this callout post. 080
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 25/06/2026Heads up: new PDFs exported from InDesign now have automatic AI image descriptions baked into them. To turn it off, go into the "Generative AI" preferences in InDesign and uncheck both these boxes: 1269
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 30/03/2025Everybody has a breakfast they think about for the rest of their life. It comes to the mind unbidden in the quiet moments like a brief and bittersweet affair. I hope you're doing well, butter chicken chicken and waffles. 150
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 18/03/2025the trick BIG TYPEFACE doesn't want you to know! Create your own ORIGINAL FONTS by simply layering two (OR MORE??) others and messing about with drop shadows! 041
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 14/03/2025Marvel Rivals inspired me to start reading old comics and I was really not prepared for how depressed The Thing was and how little everyone else seems to notice or care. He's pretty much just Karl Havoc for the first 20 issues. 130
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 03/03/2025Fantastic cover design for this series of anarchist zines I found on archive.org. Simple is supreme! 0100
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 26/02/2025When the font foundry's website looks like this, I know I can't afford it. 080
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 26/02/2025Now that the backers have received their copies and the physical book is on sale I'm really looking forward to reviewers getting their hands on Snake Wolf 3. It is by far my weirdest and most ambitious work to date. With emphasis on "to date." I am open for commissions. 060
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 17/02/2025possibly the most on-brand @hypatiasangst.bsky.social confession ever: 131
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 28/10/2024HALFLIGHT goes live on 10/31 at 10AM EST. Mark your calenders, or join our pre-launch page below: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dai... 000
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 15/03/2024I have found an excellent way to store zines. My journal refills (Nanami Paper "Seven Seas Writer") comes shipped in a cute little cardboard sleeve that just so happens to hold 4-5 a5 zines. Fits perfectly on my bookshelf. Now I just need a dozen or so more refills... 251
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 06/11/2023IT IS TIME. Spectacle, the science-fantasy pulp-comic space-gladiatorial Troika! extravanganza is now live on Kickstarter! For fans of John Carter of Mars, Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Thor: Ragnarok, and dying under the uncaring gaze of an alien eyeball. Link below! 1129
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 03/11/2023"A monster saved for the champions of the arena. It breathes noxious fumes from the engine humming inside that act as pre-digestion—those breathing it erupt into lesions, which the Carcinophage devours." Preview of the Space Carcinophage, one of 36 new monsters in SPECTACLE! 011
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 02/11/2023"You worship thunder, the power of storms echoing within you. You are a spectacle in your own right, voice booming with thunder, laughter cackling with lightning." Preview of the Electronical Templar, one of 36 new Troika backgrounds in SPECTACLE! 131
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 27/10/2023And for anyone reading this who may be a hobbyist and worried that their work simply cannot stand to be judged against the "Big Names" in our industry, I present this picture from 5E's "Exclusive Box Set" DM screen. The difference between you and them is passion and skill, and you're ahead. 131
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 16/09/2023Also, having you fight neo-nazis by the third mission is a bold choice for 1997 030
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 13/09/2023This is book design. (Arion Press edition of Moby Dick, 1981) 070
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 08/09/2023This is a PC Dungeon Crawler account now. Self-mapping the Forgotten Dungeons mod for Legend of Grimrock. 030
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 04/09/2023I've been getting into dungeon crawlers lately, and really enjoying the slow, methodical practice of manually mapping my progress. Here's level 1 of Legend of Grimrock (doing a solo run with Toorum for extra immersion 😁) 030
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 03/09/2023Rules as written, firing an arrow in B/X only takes one hand. 000
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 25/08/2023WHO KILLED SHARI BRITT? Find out in the upcoming Moonlight on Roseville Beach zine, "Dim All The Lights: Entities"! 020
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 16/08/2023Isometric maps are dope. Pixel maps are dope. Iometric pixel maps are dope. 000
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 16/08/2023On the topic of TTRPG adverts I just remembered this poster I designed for Micah Anderson's "A Simple Dungeon." Inspired by a certain reviewer claiming the book didn't have a sufficiently-lengthy preview 😉 130
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 16/08/2023If you're not following @spacepenguinink.bsky.social you're missing out on some really cool RPG adverts designed by yours truly 070
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 09/08/2023Original level 1 B/X character sheets for Parn, Ghim, Deedlit, and Slayne from Record of Lodoss War. Originally published as a series of play reports (known as "replays" in Japan) in Comptiq magazine before being adapted into the iconic fantasy anime. (translated by David Rotti, 2021) 210
Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 09/08/2023He's so close to realizing that mechanizing race is a bad idea, but just can't get there. (from Dragon Magazine #29, 1979) 2120
