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Designer, writer, publisher. All sorts. https://linktr.ee/stuartmanning
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · Jan 2
I've updated my portfolio to kick off the new year. Take a look… www.behance.net/stuartmanning
Thumbnails from my Behance design portfolio.
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Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
In practice, though, the experiment has not been a success. Take copyright. The government’s pursuit of economic growth is laudable, even if the chosen route, of piling taxes and regulation onto businesses, is eccentric. In that context, what could be more natural than to open the door of Number 10 to every Silicon Valley huckster who came knocking? Unfortunately, it turns out that writers and musicians weren’t fully persuaded that giving up all their present and future income is a good idea, even after it was explained to them that this was the only way Sam Altman would be able to afford a new lair under a volcano. Last month a consultation on the government’s proposals to give very rich Americans everything they want found they were supported by just three percent of people who wrote in. If the Department for Culture had still existed, someone there would have been able to save time by warning ministers that creative people – many of them instinctive Labour Party supporters – need m
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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katelouisepowell.bsky.social
‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940
Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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whydontyoutube.bsky.social
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas, her final series (and first in five years so she was probably on the way out anyway) airing every day over a working week.
Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas
A collection of traditional recipes, together with Fanny's practical know-how, make for a successful Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
A 2kg book of Olivetti’s design history.

www.presentandcorrect.com/products/oli...

Our final restock on these for 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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jontofski.bsky.social
RIP Martin Parr. Here are two of my favourite photos of all time. I get such a Proustian rush looking at them that I can hear the “fzzt” of a can of Quatro being opened.
December 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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desdelboy.bsky.social
Bar’s open!

Photographer Martin Parr Union Hotel. Manchester, 1974.
Martin Parr, always making the ordinary extraordinary.
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Spooky advent day 6: Krampus, a traditional figure in Central and Eastern European folklore, is basically a terrifying horned bad santa, accompanying St Nicholas on his visits to children on the night before St Nicholas' Day (6th Dec) and punishing the bad ones by whipping them with birch twigs.
An illustration of the horrible horned head of Krampus, with green skin, bright yellow staring eyes and with a long protruding tongue emerging from his fanged grinning mouth. He has a beard (but not a moustache - always a bit weird) and long pointy ears. His eyebrows are raised presumably in glee at the prospect of beating up some kids with twigs and carrying them away in his basket. The background is a dull scratchy red.
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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schlockvalue.bsky.social
when MUSCLE BEACH PARTY winds up being one of the most beautiful looking prints you’ve ever seen…
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Nov 27
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.

Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
stuartmanning.bsky.social
It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
Cover design for Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years. Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years. Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years. Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
stuartmanning.bsky.social
I wrote and drew a magazine at the age of nine, which my headteacher refused to photocopy for me. Foiled by distribution, then and now.
recurse.com Recurse Center @recurse.com · Nov 11
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond (Woman in The Moon, 1929)

This production photo is beautiful, and the film is important: first countdown, multi-stage rocket... A visionary sci-fi movie.
Moon set with painted backdrop for Fritz Lang's Woman in The Moon
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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nickabadzis.bsky.social
Announcing the title and presenting the cover of mine and Angela Watson’s forthcoming book, #MyBelovedOther
#comics #graphicnovels #BookSky #book #books #book2026 #antiracism #BlackSky

More info and links:

www.nickabadzis.com/blog/2025/10...
The cover to My Beloved Other by and copyright (c) Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson. It shows two hands forming a “heart” symbol. The hand on the left is Angela’s (who is Black), the hand on the right is mine (which is white. Sort of Greek, actually, but please read the book to find out more about that.) All rights reserved under protection of EU copyright laws.
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social
Leonard McCombe, 1957. “Dublin”

#photography #1950s #cats #Dublin #LeonardMcCombe
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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reelobscurepod.bsky.social
This YouTube thumbnail from the BBC Archive looks like a lost Ghost Stories for Christmas episode...
A YouTube thumbnail for a BBC Archive video entitled The End of the Line.
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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nickabadzis.bsky.social
Happy Hallowe’en!
A skeleton-person, self-aware saying, “My flesh! My clothes! What happened to them? I’m… gulp… a s-skeleton!……GULP….” [sic] Comic panel by artist unknown (c) unknown
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
stuartmanning.bsky.social
I sent an email today that cost me £600 and now I can't stop thinking about it.
October 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
Good morning.

‘Midnight Madness - Witches on Night Flight’ woodcut by Gwenda Morgan (1955).
A black and white woodcut print of a fleet of witches on broomsticks flying over a church at night.
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
stuartmanning.bsky.social
Reviving my forgotten Substack with Jon Pertwee having a gossip and moan to his fan club, as originally published in TV Years magazine. open.substack.com/pub/stuartma...
Jon Pertwee hawking chocolate bars.
September 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
What a frustrating experience this has been.
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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redpeter99.bsky.social
Not a single one of the 110,000 knuckle dragging thugs in London today will vote Labour.
There is nothing to be lost but plenty to be gained by Starmer condemning them in very strong terms.
September 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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rudemrlang.com
I know a lot of people have expressed similar sentiments but I’ve lived in London for 20+ years and never felt threatened or a even a bit scared to be here until today. This needs to end.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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sitcompeople.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM