Jo Bailey
@jobailey.bsky.social
Designer, (was) @jo_bailey on Twitter. She/they. Scicomm PhD. Curious about architecture, typography, urban space, cats, visual culture, graphic design, renovation + making…
It's big and red and it's very heavy!
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It's big and red and it's very heavy!
🚨📕 Need a gift for the Pōneke peeps/map geeks/history buffs /archive nerds/book fans in your life? Have I got the tome for you! Mr Ward's Map (by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP, designed by me) 🚨📕 My design notes: makinggood.design/thoughts/map... + buy here! www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/all/mr...
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
🚨📕 Need a gift for the Pōneke peeps/map geeks/history buffs /archive nerds/book fans in your life? Have I got the tome for you! Mr Ward's Map (by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP, designed by me) 🚨📕 My design notes: makinggood.design/thoughts/map... + buy here! www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/all/mr...
Here's a couple of images of it, I think…
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Here's a couple of images of it, I think…
I saw this recently! It's shown in a book I've just designed, 'Mr Ward's Map', out in Nov! It's written by historian Elizabeth Cox and uses Thomas Ward's 1891 map (all ~88 giant sheets, with every building shown) as the basis for telling amazing stories: www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/mr-war...
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I saw this recently! It's shown in a book I've just designed, 'Mr Ward's Map', out in Nov! It's written by historian Elizabeth Cox and uses Thomas Ward's 1891 map (all ~88 giant sheets, with every building shown) as the basis for telling amazing stories: www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/mr-war...
Gardeners of #nz #kikorangi: what’s this? I was cutting down a cottoneaster and this was growing below (self seeded). Not the same as what I cut down. Seek has offered up privet, Myrtle rust (?!), Chilean guava, rata… oh and insect and bird lol!
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Gardeners of #nz #kikorangi: what’s this? I was cutting down a cottoneaster and this was growing below (self seeded). Not the same as what I cut down. Seek has offered up privet, Myrtle rust (?!), Chilean guava, rata… oh and insect and bird lol!
2025 version of finding an Old Master in the attic (fridge clean-out version)
August 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
2025 version of finding an Old Master in the attic (fridge clean-out version)
I can't find similar on iphone. I could initially see it once cleared the first time, but it cut off at IF YOU ARE ONSHORE, YOU (and you couldn't open it further). Now I can't see it at all.
Seems like a sensible feature. I cleared asap to A) shut it up and B) check the news
Seems like a sensible feature. I cleared asap to A) shut it up and B) check the news
July 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I can't find similar on iphone. I could initially see it once cleared the first time, but it cut off at IF YOU ARE ONSHORE, YOU (and you couldn't open it further). Now I can't see it at all.
Seems like a sensible feature. I cleared asap to A) shut it up and B) check the news
Seems like a sensible feature. I cleared asap to A) shut it up and B) check the news
I’m a sporadic, lazy and easily distracted reader, but today I gorged myself on Bad Archive by Flora Feltham. Books, chips, duvet and the sofa on a Sunday. A recommended tonic, but this book especially so 💚 @thwupbooks.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I’m a sporadic, lazy and easily distracted reader, but today I gorged myself on Bad Archive by Flora Feltham. Books, chips, duvet and the sofa on a Sunday. A recommended tonic, but this book especially so 💚 @thwupbooks.bsky.social
A solid week of typesetting. Not convinced that #AI is gonna replace editors + designers any time soon. The nuance in the mark-ups I am fixing is super-detailed. Even with a really good template and style-mapping, it still needs close attention. Also, enjoy this #glitch! #typesetting #bookdesign
July 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A solid week of typesetting. Not convinced that #AI is gonna replace editors + designers any time soon. The nuance in the mark-ups I am fixing is super-detailed. Even with a really good template and style-mapping, it still needs close attention. Also, enjoy this #glitch! #typesetting #bookdesign
July 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Glitches of the day (these should be pretty straightforward text pages, but at 400 pages the file is getting a bit wobbly 🤪) #indesign #bookdesign
June 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Glitches of the day (these should be pretty straightforward text pages, but at 400 pages the file is getting a bit wobbly 🤪) #indesign #bookdesign
Your website then socials on mobile at least
June 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Your website then socials on mobile at least
Setting up a little exhibition in the Life in Vacant Spaces incubator on Cashel St, Ōtautahi with @jostle.bsky.social + friends! Come find out about our project #tohaveaplace about intersectional experience of public space, & share the places that make you feel *something* good, bad or indifferent!
May 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Setting up a little exhibition in the Life in Vacant Spaces incubator on Cashel St, Ōtautahi with @jostle.bsky.social + friends! Come find out about our project #tohaveaplace about intersectional experience of public space, & share the places that make you feel *something* good, bad or indifferent!
Anyone who wants to moan in the mayoral elections that Wellington is a ‘dying city’ is gaslighting the thousands out at the weekend enjoying the very much not dead city #cubadupa #stillmissLaundry
March 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Anyone who wants to moan in the mayoral elections that Wellington is a ‘dying city’ is gaslighting the thousands out at the weekend enjoying the very much not dead city #cubadupa #stillmissLaundry
Which to be completely clear is Goulden, who is also reviving the most ludicrous ‘4 lanes to the planes’ idea. Just, no. That’s so four decades ago! More separated cycleways and light rail to the planes? That I could vibe with!
March 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Which to be completely clear is Goulden, who is also reviving the most ludicrous ‘4 lanes to the planes’ idea. Just, no. That’s so four decades ago! More separated cycleways and light rail to the planes? That I could vibe with!
Wellbeing win of a working from home day: three minute commute via shower, quick scan of Popbitch email, and coffee. Despite being in bed at 0830, the day was underway before 9 and I haven’t had to talk 😂☕️💻🥐
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wellbeing win of a working from home day: three minute commute via shower, quick scan of Popbitch email, and coffee. Despite being in bed at 0830, the day was underway before 9 and I haven’t had to talk 😂☕️💻🥐
#AusSTS2025 programme looks super interesting, and I'm not even an science and technologies studies scholar! See you over the ditch in July 🟥🟦🟪🟩 🔳🟨▪️🔳➖▪️〰️
March 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#AusSTS2025 programme looks super interesting, and I'm not even an science and technologies studies scholar! See you over the ditch in July 🟥🟦🟪🟩 🔳🟨▪️🔳➖▪️〰️
Watched last night’s #Severance twice already. So good. Last week at my work had a few dark moments—marshmallow burning level not full ‘threatening collegial murder in the pond of Woe's Hollow’🔥 — but I reckon playing a theramin in the office might help?
February 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Watched last night’s #Severance twice already. So good. Last week at my work had a few dark moments—marshmallow burning level not full ‘threatening collegial murder in the pond of Woe's Hollow’🔥 — but I reckon playing a theramin in the office might help?
This is Millie, who comes to stay for her hols at our house. Very glad of Millie today as a distraction from…all that 🐈😻
January 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is Millie, who comes to stay for her hols at our house. Very glad of Millie today as a distraction from…all that 🐈😻
Reminder: alt text is flippin’ great for saving us (aka middle aged eyes me) from the awkward ‘zoom in on screen grabs to read text’ manoeuvre. And you can easily get BlueSky to remind you to add it under settings>accessibility! 👀👓🔎💚
January 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reminder: alt text is flippin’ great for saving us (aka middle aged eyes me) from the awkward ‘zoom in on screen grabs to read text’ manoeuvre. And you can easily get BlueSky to remind you to add it under settings>accessibility! 👀👓🔎💚
A year after handing in and 8 months after defending I attended graduation for my PhD today! So happy to have collaborated with many @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social researchers, had TPM’s support throughout and most of all, working with @rhiansalmon.bsky.social + @rkpriestley.bsky.social 💚
December 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
A year after handing in and 8 months after defending I attended graduation for my PhD today! So happy to have collaborated with many @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social researchers, had TPM’s support throughout and most of all, working with @rhiansalmon.bsky.social + @rkpriestley.bsky.social 💚