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Julie Van Oyen
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Senior product designer ➡️ archive + museum collections on Europeana.eu
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Julie Van Oyen @jvanoyen.bsky.social · Mar 25
Look at these beauties! A set of zines created by photography students at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague 📸

The students used their own photographs next to archival images from Europeana's collections 😍

Chuffed to be part of such a great project ☺️

#zines #photoarchive #artschool #designsky
A collection of zines containing black and white images, riso prints, decorative text and paper of various colours and textures.
jvanoyen.bsky.social
En route to Newcastle for #XDW

Gregg's ain't ready 🫓🫓🫓

#XDesignWeek
Looking down at a blue suitcase at the train station
June 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
🏰 How's this for an event venue?

The CREA Cultura festival in Foligno, Italy is a multi-day event of workshops and performances exploring themes of digital creativity and prototyping in education.

Catch me at my DesignLab workshop tmrw in one of these epic rooms 🫠
A group of adults and teens in a circle of chairs conducting a musical workshop, in a large room with frescoed vaulted ceilings and gold accents. An up close photo of a white statue of a young man with curly hair, slightly smiling. The entrance to the CREA Cultura festival, which is a large wooden door under a stone balcony; a CREA Cultura flag sits next to the door.
May 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Zines "preserve stories that are often left out of the historical record... It’s especially impt now, when the word “transgender” is being removed from the written history... 'We’re seeing our history erased in real time,'... but [with resurgent zine culture], new history is being written all the ⏰"
Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and Storytelling
In private collections and public libraries, the pages of these handmade publications hold a wealth of queer history and community.
www.atlasobscura.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
A glorious moment walking past The Depot on my way to @nieuweinstituut.nl for some usability testing today ✨

#thedepot #nieuweinstituut #rotterdam #museum #designsky
The Depot, a mirrored bowl-shaped building reflecting Rotterdam's skyline, in front of a bright blue sunny sky
April 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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guggenheim.bsky.social
Building by Susan Hefuna, 2009 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137847
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund and partial gift of the artist and Pi Artworks, 2015
March 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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DO IT
March 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
Look at these beauties! A set of zines created by photography students at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague 📸

The students used their own photographs next to archival images from Europeana's collections 😍

Chuffed to be part of such a great project ☺️

#zines #photoarchive #artschool #designsky
A collection of zines containing black and white images, riso prints, decorative text and paper of various colours and textures.
March 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
Type and graphics to drool over - even in the 15th century, book designers knew what was up 🌞

Unten: Theorica eclipsis solaris. by Locatello, Boneto (Drucker)
Herzog August Library, Germany
CC BY-SA

#designsky #bookdesign #astronomy #cosmography
The page of a book from 1490, with a block of latin text running down the left side, and two large images of the sun's and moon's orbits with orange and yellow spheres on the right
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
The days are getting longer and it's making me think of Målning's light-filled canvases 🐚☁️🦪

Målning
Blekinge Museum, Sweden
CC BY-NC

#painting #culturalheritage #malning #swedishart #seascape #landscape
A painting on canvas with a stone wall and leafy tree in the foreground, a grassy field and white building in the midground, and a cloudy sky behind. A small boat with multiple people inside, on a moody sea in front of a light-filled but cloudy sky. Other boats behind.
March 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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basquiat.bsky.social
Now's The Time, 1985
Now's The Time
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
Highly recommend a foggy morning run along the Schie river whilst listening to the Rushmore soundtrack ☁️🏃🏼‍♀️🎶
A photo of a river with green grassy banks and leafless trees alongside it, and a foggy grey sky above
February 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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superhys.bsky.social
This interactive article from Reuters is absolutely beautiful.

And the topic is one that's very close to my heart.

Give it a read, even if you're not into cosy games.

SO well executed.

P.S. Sound on!

#designsky
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.
Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
When a Chinese company I've never heard of releases some good or service that upsets Sam Altman
Good for her scene from arrested development
January 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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BYE
itsreallycj.bsky.social Jáy ⚡️ @itsreallycj.bsky.social · Jan 25
Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊
January 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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basquiat.bsky.social
Untitled, (1985)
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
January 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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guggenheim.bsky.social
The Harbor by Lyonel Feininger, 1929

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137153
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
January 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
A lush day at the European Ceramic Work Centre's open studios - visiting old friends and making new ones 🫖🏺🧱🪨

#designsky #ceramicdesign #ceramics
A brick and plaster wall with two white ceramic cloud sculptures mounted on it. Multiple wooden crates supporting various pieces of a dark grey tea set. A geometric grey and white ceramic sculpture featuring intersecting ridges and corners. Multiple multicoloured ceramic cylinders of varying heights standing on a concrete floor.
January 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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wbm312.bsky.social
For those leaving Meta apps and services: if you’re looking for a What’s App alternative, download Signal.

Safe & secure: signal.org/download/
Download Signal
Download Signal for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
signal.org
January 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Oh, snap!
Screenshot of a tweet by 'charles entertainment cheese' with the caption: 'okay snapchat i was not familiar with your game.' Below is an excerpt referencing Snapchat's decision to lock Trump's account on January 6, 2021, following the attack on the U.S. Capitol. It notes that as of January 13, 2021, Snapchat announced it would keep his account blocked permanently. A highlighted section at the bottom reads: 'As of 2024, Snapchat is the only platform not to have reinstated Trump.'
January 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Reposted by Julie Van Oyen
jonas.do
phases of a long running design project:

- this is new and exciting!
- this is good
- this is ok
- this might be bad
- getting tired
- have lost all objectivity
- questioning if any of this makes any sense at all
- considering moving to the forest
- maybe take up pottery instead
- ugh fine, ship it
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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superhys.bsky.social
I've been getting a lot of questions about the Switch 2 from clients and the press, so I wrote up this FAQ!

Let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll try to answer 'em!

www.midiaresearch.com/blog/switch-...

#videogames #gaming
Switch 2 FAQs: Your cheat sheet for understanding Nintendo's upcoming console
As we said in our games trends to watch article , 2025 will be the year of the portable. Nintendo kicked that off in earnest, finally lifting the curtain on its Switch 2 console. Here are the basics: ...
www.midiaresearch.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
jvanoyen.bsky.social
Bring back hand painted signs 📣

#designsky #handpaintedsign #vintagesign
Photo depicting a brown and red brick building with a hand painted sign on its side. The sign looks like a long white scroll with the Dutch words "Glas, porselein, aardewerk" written across in uppercase letters.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
Sign reading Duolingo, but for Anxiety Created by scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard FREE to use without a subscription with a cute lil blob cartoon character
January 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jsombat.bsky.social
To everyone working on Accessibility, it matters. 🫶
January 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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You cute, Deventer 👀💖
Photo depicting an A-frame red brick house with red shutters in Deventer, Netherlands. Photo depicting an old-fashioned red mailbox in Deventer, Netherlands. Photo depicting a narrow, cobbled street framed with red brick and white plaster buildings in Deventer, Netherlands.
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM