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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ahhhh the feeling of serenity that comes from seeing illustrations as beautiful as these

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 24/03/2026

Lottery Poster designed by Wolfgang Bäumer c. 1960s. Scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, July 1966 designreviewed.com/dynamic-form...

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is why I keep trying to stick it out here on Bluesky #designsky

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It is wild how sharp that “K” is

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Boycott OpenAI! OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, announced Friday that the company reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models on a classified network just hours after Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out rival Anthropic.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This platform needs way more freaking out about Alysa Liu. Oakland chill yet extreme excellence is the antidote to everything that’s so broken right now.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Alysa Liu is a true hero, for so many reasons! Very #oakland proud today!!! #alysaliu #olympics #oaklandsky Something about seeing someone win because they love the sport itself, not because they love the competition, feels sooooo good. I’ll be referencing her a lot as I bring my own kid into sport

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My art ambitions are to create some.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Dear #designsky - any calendar recommendations? Big enough to write in, well designed, ideally from a cute, small shop :) I had the one in the photo from #poketo , but looks like they’re not doing it for ‘26. #printing #letterpress #stationary #typography #graphicdesign #printmaking peeps help?

Image of a printed calendar with stuff written in the days

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is I subscribe to @wired.com , cause it puts things like this into the world

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Breathe a sigh of relief, there is still goodness in this world, like this gem from Kamekura

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 25/08/2025

what's wild is these people showed no interest in design(ers) at all when they first showed up, so this pivot to "caring" about "design" seems like an easy to way signal some semblance of interest in fixing the damn websites.

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Chris Shiflett @shiflett.org · 19/08/2025

Does the person responsible for HBO → HBO Max → Max work at MSNBC now? Sorry, I mean NOW.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Fellow #designers , I imagine you got into this career because you “liked being creative” and are drowning in AI like me. This article helped me put some of my concerns into poetry. Also, see the photo from a commenter on PROCESS vs. PRODUCT #designsky . www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

A NYT article comment on process vs. product

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m seeing many reposts of Donald Trump’s demented distraction from the Jeffrey Epstein mess about Rosie O’Donnell. What I’m not seeing is her sassy response. Here it is:

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

You’re telling me Google can (with Gemini) code an interactive multi-page website in minutes… But Google sill makes me go through this incredibly frustrating process for simple tasks like downloading an image in a google doc? And countless other basic things Priorities people! #google #designsky

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ummmm trying to find another word to describe this other than just … super cool?

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Anyone have a good read-it-later article saving app? Just want a way to send an article to bucket, then view that bucket later when I’m looking for articles to read. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut... #designsky #pocket #read-it-later #journalism

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Pocket is saying goodbye - What you need to know | Pocket Help

More information about the end of support for Pocket.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

open.substack.com/pub/carly/p/... Especially non-designers, please read this to put words to vibes. “There’s a kind of energy to the pairing, but the dynamic raises a harder question: is this partnership about design as strategy, or design as PR? - @carlyayres.com #designsky

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Chat, are we back? Again?

OpenAI just paid $6.5 billion to acquire Jony Ive’s startup. The product? Still unclear. The message? Crystal.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

@figma.com to #webflow? Yeh we’re just gonna copy and take you out @figma.com to #adobeillustrator ? Yehhhh we’re just going to copy and take you out (we don’t need to be bought by you!) #designsky

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Kinda really hoping #figma doesn’t launch any #AI features… Please no… #designsky

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thanks for hosting @janelle.posts.cv @andy.posts.cv ! Was fun reminiscing about the convos on posts

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@oaklandside.bsky.social what’s taking soooooo long for these mayor results? It’s already Friday afternoon ⏱️ #oakland

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The time Larry David wasn’t happy with J.B. Smoove showing up late to his own party 🤣….this should’ve been an episode of Curb!

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hey #designsky , can any recruiters help me with an honest portfolio / resume review? After getting laid off for the 2nd time in a year, I'm back on the hunt and would love to know how a recruiter "scans" my application. Willing to pay for an honest review #jobhunting #tech #productdesign #design

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Winston Struye

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Ahhhhh sharing this his cause it makes me happy to live in the Bay Area! People give this place crap but damn I feel lucky to live here #bayarea #oakland #sanfrancisco @sfchronicle.com #food The complete Top 100 list is out: See who came in at No. 1 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

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100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked

The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Give me art where someone decided it needed to exist so much that they devoted a significant portion of their limited time on Earth to create it.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This should actually come up as “community notes” on every chatGPT image

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Anyone watching White Lotus? This reeks of the scene where little Schwarzenegger gets mad cause a girl wouldn’t hook up with him.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Few things would make me happier right now than to read a headline that says “Studio Ghibli tries to sue OpenAI out of existence” Can we please make this happen? #designsky #openai #ai #studioghibli

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Isn't it just truly fucking hilarious that unemployment income is taxable? "Oh yeh, we know you're having a tough time after you lost your job, so here's some pennies that we call unemployment... but... we need some of those pennies back next year" Sincerely, The U.S. Government's Social Safety net

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really dug this @taurean.posts.cv and @pedropeguerojr.com . Actually even kinda preferred it to Andy's read.cv messages with the big imagery. Awesome job!

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Echoing this! Not afraid to admit the only reason I was able to afford graduate school is because it was essentially “subsidized” by international students.

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yesterday the layoff-witch came for me (second time in a year!) First, god damnit … this fucking sucks (feel like I can be more real here than LinkedIn…) Second of all, know anyone looking for lead/senior level product designer (emphasis on design systems) winstonstruye.com #designsky #design

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Winston Struye

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨🚨🚨 This should alarm designers as much as artists. Fellow designers, don’t be blinded to your right of independence of ideas by “shiny tech.” #designsky

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I wonder how many people are vibe-coding a “minimalist to-do app”, the world really doesn’t have enough of those… #designsky #newideasplease #vibecoding

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Humor is the only way I can survive these times and this helped

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Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Damn I wish this would get more headlines

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