No news this week as we're just wittering on about what we've been up to. Here's some links to things we spoke about.

Studiomate Steve illustration podcast

Tales from the Quarantine anthology Kickstarter shenanigans

Open Press Project 3D printed press

RIP Last Dambuster

Leica 2 mobile phone

Paranoia RPG Kickstarter from Mongoose

Goncherov movie - Mandela Effect

Rivers of London RPG

Fontjoy(less)

Lex Lofthouse December Daily UI Challenge

WOTW - Phil Gyford's Oo.directory of blogs

Jack Harrison's Koriko game on Kickstarter

Jon Hicks's website

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies and Ministry of Stories

Adobe XD death, Affinity 2 deal and subscription model software

True Grit Texture Supply's Kolormark

Free League Publishing's lush Vaesen RPG

Themeborne new Kickstarter – The Last of Us boardgame

Mastodon to the rescue – Find Rob on Mastodon. Jon's there too but he's not very interesting

Merlin Mann's Wisdom on Github

RIP Kim Jung Gi

RIP Hilary Mantel

LEGO's D&D call to arms

James Earle Jones sells his voice for digital use

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery

Paper price rises

Saudia Arabia hosting 2029 Asian Winter Games

Scrapping GDPR

New European cover design

Elon Musk buying Twitter. Again.

Bonnier Books brand mark by Studio Evoke and Buff Motion

TOPIC - How much daily graft do you put into your creative lives and are you satisfied by the output?

Andy Budd's soundbites

WOTW - The Kids Should See This

WOTW - Emil Underbjerg's linocut channel

The Verge and The Merge

Patagonia given away to the Earth

Adobe purchases Figma for $20 billion

iPhone 14 Pro

Tech Boys are dicks

Mona Lisa redux from @images_ai

TIm Easley's thread with tips for landing new clients

Crush paper with residues from organic products – from Fenner Paper

WOTW - 1% for the planet

RIP Raymond Briggs

Branston pickle brand refresh

Winchester Comics Fair is on - 26th November

Tattly has sold to BIC for $400 million dollars

New Apple stuff is unsurprisingly underwhelming and what is this strap all about?

Jessica Hische's The Dark Art of Creative Business virtual workshop

Design Principles

LEGO Atari VCS 2600

BeReal can't be real. Can it?

Awesome Merchandise are not so awesome

NEOM vertical city aka Mega-City One

AI art generator wins fine art prize in art competition

Midjourney experiments by Pascal Blanché

Google Lamda AI is sentient then not sentient

Prayer Mouth

Tesla Autopilot Doubt

Mental Canvas analogue-digital-3d thingy

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design Second Edition

Europe USB-C law

BLAG magazine

RIP Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher and Iconfactory founder Corey Marion

WOTW – Dave Smyth's Below Radar

New Elizabeth Line opens

New branding from accountants' favourite Sage and Instagram (barely)

DJI Mini Pro goes portrait (don't ask)

RIP Vangelis

The museum of coffee machines

Project 44 following Canada's Normandy campaign

The ZX Spectrum is 40 years old this year

FIDO Alliance

Birmingham Design Festival

Creatives are professionals by Mike Reed (Sorry, LinkedIn-hosted)

How to Think When You Draw 5 by The Etherington Brothers on Kickstarter

Gabriel Clarke's good-turning woodturning tale

Kottke is going offline

NASA is a litter bug

Space Dwarfs are back!

ZX Spectrum online emulator – Behold The Hobbit in its 8-bit glory