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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 30/09/2026

Still thinking of taking part in this years #Septembit, even if other work means that september will be over before I can even sketch any thumbnails for it. Just got that pixel art itch!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 04/09/2026

Now it's out, it's nice to be able to share this cover art I did for Phytophonics new release. Enjoyed complimenting the retro sound with some appropriately vintage visuals

Cover design for Phytophonics single "turning gold" featuring Gaurav Balli, in a retro 1960s style

A close up of some of the fun textural and typographic details

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 25/08/2026

1. Everything's coming up Milhouse 2. The goggles, they do nothing 3. I'm seeing double here! Four Krusty's 4. It's just a little X it's still good, it's still good 5. Juvenile Hall... Juvenile Hall... Juvenile Hall

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 02/08/2026

I've finally got round to playing Sable, and am already really into the art style and direction. Love any time a game goes with something other than bland realism and tries something distinctive!

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 17/07/2026

Fun bike-based garden centre adventures today.

A black bicycle with panniers and a front basket, leant against a fence in front of a small lake and fields

The same black bicycle with a host of potted plants in a crate on the front rack

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 15/07/2026

Hey #gamedev people, why are glasses (that people drink from) always absolutely massive in most games? Is it an animation thing?

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

But what if I don't think passkeys are the future of access? What if I absolutely refuse to give some corporation a scan of my face or my finger? Why the fuck can't I just keep using my passwords?

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Hugh Raine @hughraine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The 2026 Summer Kids Festival at GOSH Comics in London! What a line-up! (And also me.)

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Trevor Basset @trevorbasset.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was impacted by the Bungie layoffs today and will greatly miss my team and working on games. I’m looking for a new role as a brand designer.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 27/05/2026

I've started a little side project and I've very much been enjoying building a little website for it on neocities. You forget that the internet used to be full of these DIY sites, and it's lovely to know that it still exists.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 21/05/2026

What even is the intended use-case for this, besides the possibility of a one-off curiosity of the novelty?

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I'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 20/05/2026

If you want to create things but you need to use AI to do it, you don't actually want to create things. You just want the recognition that comes with creating things

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 14/05/2026

Had a good day cycling out to pick up some leaflets for a job. Always get a great sense of satisfaction from having a task I can do on the bike!

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 12/05/2026

So glad to see the return of this thread! It's the gift that keeps on giving. So many possibilities from one joke

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 08/05/2026

Coming down with mildly irritating illness, so had a good game day yesterday. Played a bit of Thumper (why is level 3 so hard?) and finally got round to Thank Goodness You're Here! (which had me from the off with the Peans advert)

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 04/05/2026

Does this mean the Vogon fleet are almost here?

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Sophia @smdefelice.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

MUTUAL ARTISTS!! are you interested in getting some of your work screenprinted? I am looking to try some small hired print runs! Since I've never done this before, you will get the guinea pig discount! if you are interested, email me me: sophia@crytime.art

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alex siple 🏳️‍🌈 @alexsiple.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

hey #PortfolioDay i do illustration, visual development, concept art, comics, and so many other things

Digital illustration of Akechi and Joker from Persona 5 in the snow at night.

Digital painting inspired by My Chemical Romance's song "Helena".

Diptych of two paintings of Griffith and Guts from Berserk, respectively. The text reads "Long ago... There was a longing."

Digital painting of Kris from Deltarune. The text at the bottom reads: "The distance between two"

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Carly A-F, freelance illustrator from the UK making textured, dramatic covers, posters, game and ttrpg art and more! Booking projects for May onwards 👍 🎨 carlydraws.com 📧 carly @ carlydraws . com

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✸ 𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖞𝖉 ✸ @jasminefloyd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ooo #portfolioday again! Hey! I’m Jas 🤓 an illustrator and printmaker from Shropshire. I’m a big fan of riso printing, punchy symmetry, and anything fluro pink ✨ I’ve worked in editorial, packaging, branding, & kid lit. But I’m always up for trying something new 👀 linktr.ee/Jasminesillu...

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Batfeula @batfeula.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hi! I'm Bat, as a pixel artist I work on videogames, comics and illustrations! DM me for job or commissions! #PortfolioDay

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hi #PortfolioDay Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director, printmaker & sculptor. Big fan of risography, old goofy SFF covers, forced perspective & experimentation. Nice to meet you :) WEB: www.badmanifesto.co.za IG: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto PRINTS: www.inprnt.com/profile/brucemackay

Two colour illustration of Barad Dûr, with Sauron's eye at the top. surrounded with the ring inscription in elvish. the sky is red with sparks and ash floating in the air, the tower is above a fiery chasm. The front doors are glowing red with silhouettes of chains and armouries. A cloud of ash conceals the horizon. This will be a banner and riso print first. Digital prints coming later this year.

Illustration of a paperback copy of Frank Herbert's Dune. It's a 3 colour riso setup using teal, red and yellow overlapping. The title is in white with D and E mirrored and the lowercase u and n flipped. Center image is a big worm with a big blue hallucinating eye at the centre of its mouth with some rocks with Fremen Holding flags and knives in the foreground. it is particularly difficult to draw Shai Hulud without it's mouth looking like a giant butt-hole.

Digital illustration of a The Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Some mushrooms in the foreground.

Illustration of a cover for THE HOBBIT. View from inside the halls of the woodland elves. A ramp is dropping some barrels. The trees make a circle. In the trees are some elves and spiders. Inside the circle from the bottom is a river flowing through forest. Barrels in the river. The river joins a lake with a floating town, above it the Lonely Mountain, with its reflection/shadow over the town.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 30/03/2026

A #pixelart practice piece inspired by a Czech matchbox label. Pixels done in Adobe Illustrator, effects in Photoshop #pixels #retro #vintage #retroart #pixelillustration

Pixel art of brave soldier Chveik inspired by a vintage Czech matchbox label illustration, with warped CRT effect

The bare, naked pixels of the previous image with no filters

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 01/04/2026

I have a website which is increasingly feeling to me like a cobbled together mish mash of small amounts of html and CSS I force myself to understand, and I love that. Anyway, I've updated it with a few recent projects so please have a look! thingsonfiredesign.com

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Things on Fire | Graphic Illustration and Design

Freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

if you appreciate my art, design, procedural, or experimental work, or design analysis, please consider supporting me or reposting! i'm /extremely/ good at living frugally but i would like to eat better and get a new computer. i'm aiming to get to $1000 a month. www.patreon.com/vacuumflowers

a spread of 16x16, 2 color characters from the post-jam version of my 7drl project. various oracles and mystical beings, some people disguised as devils, some skeletons, a grave digger.

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 30/03/2026

A #pixelart practice piece inspired by a Czech matchbox label. Pixels done in Adobe Illustrator, effects in Photoshop #pixels #retro #vintage #retroart #pixelillustration

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they’ve meltzer 📓📇🤼‍♂️ S. Qiouyi Lu 陸秋逸 @s.qiouyi.lu · 28/03/2026

if you’re discouraged from being curious, you’re discouraged from incorporating new knowledge about the world and discouraged from asking why things are the way they are and imagining different ways of doing things authoritarians love discouraging curiosity!

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 18/03/2026

Had my first "read a book on the step in the sun" of the year, and it felt fantastic

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 17/03/2026

I love basically everything these two do, so go check them out if you don't already

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 16/03/2026

Fun part of being a designer in a band is getting to make your own band logo #logo #type #typography #lettering

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 15/03/2026

This game look beautiful! Just lookadit

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 14/03/2026

Super pleased to share my cover art for The Bracken & Tread by George Boomsma which released yesterday! It was an absolute pleasure to work with George again and put together the visuals for this gem, along with some great photography from Sam Frank Wood

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 14/03/2026

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives

As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red Violets are blue Ban cars

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 12/02/2026

Damien Hirst, who got an E grade for his art A level

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 06/02/2026

New single artwork for Jordan Aikin and Quercus released today. Taking inspiration from old woodcuts and the baueux tapestry • #graphicdesign #coverartwork #singleart #designinspiration #illustration

Cover art for Tis Ill Against Wolf to be Wolfish by Jordan Aikin and Quercus.

Detail of the cover illustration, showing the texture and line work better

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Chris • Things on Fire @thingsonfiredesign.com · 06/02/2026

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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