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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 09/09/2026

From my experience designing movie posters, then sharing a comprehensive set of layouts for different uses: Someone else will upload a thumbnail to online service, ignore my specific variations and pick a wrong version — or poorly alter the art to adhere to display rules.

Screenshot of the poster master file layout variations for indie documentary "What the Hell Happened" is on the left, compared to another screenshot on the right showing the movie poster thumbnail that ended up on streaming service FAwesome.com that is a heavily edited version I did not create. The art was "scrubbed" by someone to remove small text that wouldn't be visible — except they went too far and removed handwritten text from the spine labels on a stack of VHS tapes that is used to showcase the five subjects in the film; The spines don't need to be legible when the art is displayed at small sizes so much as fulfill the context of DIY home-recorded VHS tapes with handmade labels.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 22/08/2026

@cabel.panic.com Idea for cheap @panic.com t-shirts: 1. Bulk buy Panasonic t-shirts for cheap 2. Remove middle letters from "Panasonic" 3. Remove "For" from the tagline. 4. PROFIT!!!!

Photo of a t-shirt with "Pa nic. for life" written on it. Obviously this used to be a "Panasonic Ideas for life" t-shirt but now it reads as "Panic for life".

Original photo found online, author unknown.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 26/07/2026

It has been a while! Years ago when that was changed there was understandably a lot of angry users and feedback — so Adobe put YA "legacy" setting in the General preferences.

Screen shot of Adobe Photoshop 2026's General preferences section with the "Use Legacy Free Transform" checkbox highlight with a purple box.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 11/07/2026

Me too with Safari, inconsistently across sessions, though not since I updated to the last bug 26.5.2 (20624.2.5.18.7) fix yesterday — so maybe that helped? But even with video currently working the browser console is reporting significant errors for BSky. 🤔

Screenshot of access control check errors, missing ReferenceError and 400 status loading failure on a BlueSky page load.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 08/07/2026

Weird it was a new file; Maybe it is some kind of bug. There's all sorts of default baggage in fresh Illustrator files — including symbols relevant to the doc's profile. Maybe that's a factor. Still, I've not seen this with the latest version. Hope you aren't cursed. Watch out for sea hags!

Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator's Symbols palette with the "Art & Illustration" included symbols. There's a TextArea rounded box with a blue outline, a Button also with a blue outline and a light blue-to-white gradient fill, a ComboBox with a rounded square with a dropdown-style arrow, a TextInput field — again with an skinny rectangle with a blue outline and a white with blue outline drawing of a magnifying glass call Search.

WTF... these are all web site graphical elements; These have no place in a document intended for "Art & Illustration".

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 16/06/2026

"Quality" is no longer consistently understood; Normal Photoshop composites or artwork is slandered as AI "slop" even when it isn't; Reportedly "vibe-coded" projects are very hard to edit-and-maintain once they're committed, and can become a huge expense to fix.

Screen capture of a post on X, taken from a Reddit post on r/vibcoding.

vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
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the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. ( that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 13/06/2026

Some quick/useful CSS from my go-to print stylesheet boilerplate — a bit dated and missing some things, but even just printing complete URLs is a game-changer; CSS markup in ALT.

$/* boilerplate print styles for accessibility and usability */ @media print { * { color:#000 !important; box-shadow:none !important; text-shadow:none !important; background:transparent !important; } html {background-color: var(--white);} /* Hide navigation */ nav { display:none; } /* Show link destinations in brackets after link text */ a[href]:after { content: " (" attr(href) ") "; } a[href] { font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; color:#06c; border:none; } /* Don't show link destinations for JavaScript or internal links */ a[href^="javascript:"]:after, a[href^="#"]:after { content:""; } /* Show abbr title value in brackets after the text */ abbr[title]:after { content: " (" attr(title) ")"; }$

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 02/06/2026

I prefer Japanese poster designs for movies, but had this gratuitously masculine Italian Escape From New York poster on my wall for many years.

Italian movie poster version for John Carpenter's Escape From New York featuring a low-angle perspective illustration of Kurt Russel as Snake Plisskin holding a machine gun at crotch level with significant foreshortening of the gun barrel, basically making this about as masculine as a poster can get without incurring X-rated subject matter. The background features helicopters in a NYC skyline, a photo of the ruined head of the Statue of Liberty laying on the ground, and shadows of people around it. In the middle right is Issac Hayes as The Duke of NY and some other man wearing a headband.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 22/05/2026

Part 4 in an unexpected series...

Mock-up of a paperback book titled "The worst damned coffee mug. I think it was washed in 1997. It has *film* on the inside of it that's near black. He is proud of it.", which includes the alt text on the original image of "the worst damned coffee mug". The author of the book is Dana Sibera. There is a sticker on the cover that says "100,000 Cups" Exclusive afterword by Craig. The cover artwork underneath the long title text includes a color-tinted close-up of the coffee cup original photo that inspired this mock-up.

The book is opened and face down on a white surface that has a coffee stain to the lower right of the book.

The back cover has quotes from social media, including the author of this mock-up saying "Better not be Craig's" and NanorRaptor's reply "It is Craig's!" which is what started this whole project and the alt text you're reading now.

Oh, and there's a tiny picture of Nanoraptor's bunny Vanilla Bean above another full color photo of the coffee mug in question, which has coffee-colored large type on it that says "Deeper & Darker Than Hell".

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 20/05/2026

Bad motion design found in-the-wild that feels like a metaphor for current events.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 20/05/2026

The site is nice and compact as it should be; Don't want to come off like "that guy" whining about 10k you didn't save, etc. I no longer use Netlify, but I bet it's mostly the way they meter "credits" for page views, etc. I'd assume they have some sort of breakdown of "credits" used somewhere.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 20/05/2026

Interesting; You've got two featured images on that article that add-up to a couple hundred kilobytes. Sure, one can always optimize more heavily (TinyPNG, webp, <picture> array, etc.), but as modern sites go you're not serving up the usual megabytes of bloat. Probably a Netlify traffic thing.

Screenshot showing how much TinyPNG optimization improves the main hero image on the "Do I Belong in Tech Anymore?" article at https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 16/05/2026

HyperCard was my second animation tool; I used to use it to make flip book animations like this one from 1991:

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 07/04/2026

Since the COVID-19 pandemic I've been rocking custom background photos from an ancient Corel stock photo CD I stumbled across at an old job. As one might expect there are of indeed sea foam green control rooms.

Retro stock photo of a big industrial control room with sea foam green walls and consoles. A man sits in a chair and manipulates the controls.

Retro stock photo of a big industrial room with light sea foam green walls and machinery. Two mean wearing hardhats examine large modular industrial control boxes on a wooden table. One of the men is wearing a very floral print shirt with wide lapels.

Retro stock photo of an industrial control room with sea foam green walls and consoles. Two Japanese men examine the console controls. One is wearing a business suit and the other a hard hard and industrial jumpsuit.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 03/04/2026

Yes, it's that time again...

Satirical mock-up of a fake book cover and two pages from the same book. The title of the book is "Time to Back Up Craig", with a sticker saying "From the author of Stuff the F*cker & Pop One for Craig". There is a faded photo of an external storage drive with a old style serial cable attached. The cover features "Simple & Easy", "Includes USB Instructions", and "Minimal Nagging". The author is Dana Sibera.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 17/02/2026

Reminds me of the communication issues highlighted in the Chernobyl mini series that caused nuclear bomb-level environmental damage and death — that is still ongoing in that region. It may not be your problem now, but at some point it could be the entire organization's problem in some other way.

Colorful brushed script spells out "Damn".

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 03/02/2026

This is who runs this account.

Black and white photo of a standing youn boy posing while holding onto a bicycle. In the background are some pine trees, a large empty grassy area, and a road with some streetlights and a portable shed. The boy is wearing a cape made from a surplus army blanket, protective clear goggles, and a flat cap.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 23/01/2026

It's often a bit of fussiness to coordinate social link icons in a consistent way, and that row is a great start. Of course these days still using the Twitter branding can be seen as either lacking to update to the revised brand — or a form of resistance ✊. Regardless, could be worse:

Screenshot of the official Britney Spears web site circa early 2000's. Notably the Google + social network icon is one of four large square cards that make up the left and right sides of the page — about 1000% larger than average. Other social media link elements are the usual small buttons in the navigation.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 27/12/2025

Years ago I made videos for a YouTube channel and when a Cameron pull quote came up in a script I couldn't help but design this mocked-up jab at the Avatar series:

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 12/12/2025

I see this debated — but no *definitive* proof either way. It's not clear; E.g. some models are specifically labelled "safe for commercial use", which others aren't. I have clients that specifically require no generated AI because they need full ownership of what I make for them.

Screenshot of available models in Adobe's Creative Cloud Pro. The top four Firefly models are labelled "commercially safe", but partner models (Google, ChatGPT, Flux, Ideogram, Runway, etc.) are not.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 12/12/2025

Seems they're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Generated AI can't be copyrighted, but also some Disney characters recently entered the public domain — releasing a wave of low-budget horror films featuring slasher Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, etc. Probably chasing short-term profits.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 07/11/2025

Update on the documentary I worked on: "What the Hell Happened" won Jury Award Honorable Mention & Local Audience Award at the Philadelphia Film Festival. I wasn't able to attend, missing out on audience reactions to the humor I contributed in my animation. #pff34 #PhillyFilmFestival

Vertical screenshot from a smart phone showing the Philadelphia Film Festival web site's page for "What the Hell Happened", a documentary directed by Matt Wilkins and Eliza Fox. The sub-headline says "PFF34 Jury Awards Honorable Mention for Best Local Feature"

Image from a Philadelphia Film Festival Instagram post for Audience awards. The PFF "Local Audience Award" laurel graphic is at-the-top with the film title and director below.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 31/10/2025

HDR support is still a bit wild west; video games like Baldur's Gate 3 can't map HDR screen content to SDR when making a game save preview thumbnail. Cyberpunk 2077 extensively re-renders in HDR before saving in Photo mode, but the resulting PNG is a "flat" 8-bits per channel image.

Screen capture from Cyberpunk 2077 (MacOS build) showing Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) sitting on a rooftop building ledger overlooking Night City. The image colors and contrast appear washed out because the original HDR dynamic range is stripped out when the image is save to disc.

Screenshot showing how Baldur's Gate 3 can't generate HDR images from what's on screen when making previews for save games. The preview showing a bloody landscape after a battle in the wilderness appears very washed out/un-saturated, with the blood on the groud a pale red surrounding by bright beige dirt.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 28/10/2025

You're welcome. Those were good times!

Two books in a stack with a third book standing on top. The book is titled "What have you done with Mira Crisp?" The book cover art features Mira Crisp outside in the cold wearing a winter hat, sunglasses, and a faux leopard print high-collar coat. In the sunglass lenses a cinnamon roll is reflected.

Mira Crisp's bandaged foot with googly eyes on the biggest and littlest toe. A hand is holding a eighties-style mobile phone as if the foot is talking on it.

Surreal fake satirical album cover for "Ca$hmira" titled "I'm, guess what, I'm miracrisp on tiktok". The background art is an edited version of the rolling hills and sky default Windows XP desktop photo, except there are three instances of Mira's legs growing out from each hill.

Fake satirical compact disc jewel box music album for "Ca$hmira" titled "Sugar Mama". The cover art features a solid pink background with Mira's silver high-heel shoes places symmetrically back-to-back pointed upwards; This image was taken from a photo Mira posted of her shoes. A mocked-up sticker on the album front says "Featuring: House Husband, Sloppy is the new cool, and Love Spanks/Licks Butter".

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 02/10/2025

Since May 2024 I've been working off-and-on creating original animation, titles, graphic design and one special effect for this documentary; And now it's premiering at the 2025 Philadelphia Film Festival! #PFF34 #PhillyFilmFestival

Poster image for documentary feature What The Hell Happened directed by Matt Wilkins. The top tagline is "5 people. 33 Years" in a thick sans-serif typeface on a roughly cut scrap of brown paper. The title "What The Hell Happened" is below the tagline. In the background is a rural country two-lane road disappearing into-the-distance. There's a man's silhouette on the right-hand side of the road standing in an empty agricultural field. In the lower middle sitting on the road is a giant stack of five VHS tapes from the eighties, each with different collaged artwork and handwritten type: The first is labeled "Tim", the second "Eliza", the third "Anthony", the forth "Daniel", and the fifth "Doug". In the lower right there is another brown scrap of paper with text that reads "A documentary about life, love, and friendship".

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 18/09/2025

Reminder that the late, great Robert Redford is featured in one of the all-time best online meme responses.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 10/09/2025

Chicago being used to thoroughly was a big surprise to me because it's so specific to the Classic macOS UI. It made more sense in the Robocop 2 baddie's Finder-style UI homage than as a full-scale aesthetic in the Alien universe.

Frame grab from the movie Robocop 2 showing cyborg Kane's POV with a menubar modeled after classic Apple Macintosh operating systems. The menubar items are set in Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. Instead of an Apple icon in the far right, there is a simple pixelated skull icon.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 13/08/2025

Alien: Earth honoring the well-established tradition of "greebling" random or everyday parts onto surfaces to make things look futuristic or detailed — this time lining a wall with woofer backs from large speakers.

Frame grab from FX's Alien Earth Season 1 Episode 1 title "Neverland" showing a grisly dead crew woman's broken body laying on a floor against a futuristic wall. There are four speaker woofer housings reversed against the wall, painted with the same color.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 07/08/2025

For f*ck's sake @adobe.com , it's 2025 and this is my real name!

Screenshot of Adobe Community Forum user settings with the Screen Name field filled out with my name "Eric Peacock". The field is highlighted in red with a form validation error saying "Your screen name can't contain Adobe-branded terms or profanity."

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 16/06/2025

For decades I've been collecting screen captures of horrible web sites, both for personal reference, historical record, and for a good laugh. This is the newest addition. #trumpmobile #webdesign

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 19/02/2025

Once you see it, the kerning between the "v" and the "g" on the Adobe SVG document icon will drive you crazy.

The Adobe Creative Suite document icon for an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file. Icon drawing is an outline of a rounded page with top-right corner folded in. There are three vector points on a downward curve, with the middle point having bezier handles. Below this are the letters S, V, and G.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 14/02/2025

@tukwilkins Any chance Eliza could corroborate this COBOL explanation regarding DOGE thinking fake 150 year olds are still getting social security?

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 05/02/2025

There is still good on the Internet.

Screenshot of a post on a meme posted on a designer forum that has been active since the nineties showing a veterinary operating room with vets examining a sedated tiger. The meme-like caption says:

"What can you see, Doc?"
"The thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival"

Forum users respond with:
"and the last known survivor"

"…stalks his prey in the night, and he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger"

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 05/02/2025

Maybe a reference to Aquirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1975)

Still frame from Werner Herzog's 1975 film "Aquirre: The Wrath of God" showing amazon rain forest tree line along a river. A medium-sized wooden boat is inexplicably stuck in the tallest tree.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 16/01/2025

As a longtime fan of David Lynch I wasn't prepared for today's news and have been deeply saddened by his loss. I've hung onto my old "davidlynch.com" purchases all these years because the custom packaging is intriguing. I've found myself revisiting those this morning after hearing the news.

Custom-designed slip case DVD box packaging for David Lynch's first feature film Eraserhead that was sold independently by Lynch himself from his web site in 2000.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 13/11/2024

And while your hacking your friend hackers goof off...

Still frame from a montage in the movie Hackers (1995) featuring Dade/Crash Override (Jonny Lee Miller) working his laptop while Kate/Acid Burn (Angelia Jolie) and their hacker friends goof off in the background.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 15/04/2024

Finished the first season of Fallout, and as a longtime fan of most of the games I enjoyed it. Of course the show is packed with easter eggs; One I haven't seen mentioned yet is that the password for the cold fusion device is the release date for the original Fallout 1! #fallout #videogames

Screen capture from the Fallout television series, season one, episode 8 "The Beginning" showing a CRT monitor with an access code to unlock the Vault-tec cold fusion device as "101097", which is October 10, 1997 when the original Fallout RPG video game was released.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 08/03/2024

Ah yes, the "With Mitt" social media campaign app that had a typo in the graphic overlays it used. It'd be a shame if someone extracted those overlays before the 1.1 patch quickly overwrote the mistake only to share them on social media 12 years later...

The PNG overlay asset from the v1.0 Mitt Romney "With Mitt" social media app from his 2012 campaign. The overlay has a typo in the headline that says "A Better Amercia". This overlay was composited on top of a users selfie photo that was meant to be shared on social media.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 16/02/2024

We could never forget Craig… and yet his legacy grows as it would seem he's constantly associated with filthiest subjects one can imagine.

Mocked-up photo of a book by Dana Sibera created by Eric Peacock in response to a now deleted tweet listing inaccurate transcriptions from Siri on Dana's phone, one of which was something about Craig followed by "Stuff the fucker".

The book title is "Stuff the F*cker". One of Dana's manipulated photos showing a computer VGA port with two large 1/4" audio plugs instead of the mini pin-outs. A sticker on the lower corner of the cover says "Forward by Craig".

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