Louie Stowell

One of my years-in-development projects is finally getting announced next week. It’s about children’s play & storytelling, but over the last few year and it’s accidentally also become an incredibly messy ‘AI could never do this‘ manifesto.

This is one of the many reasons why I use my partner's hand-drawn art for my book covers - AI could never.

Someone made their version of the font used in lots of Japanese storage, all of which is essentially peak Graphic Design Is My Passion - I cannot afford the full version, but AI could never gt-maru.com

This is great book (if you haven't already got it): www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/books/poster...

yeah, 100%. I'm thinking about the modernist typography of the 50s and early 60s - absolutely stunning work, art in itself. Would love to see a return to that.

And Question Time of course. They want 'provocative', and what could be be provocative than a fascist.

My current personal website design ethos is unironically ‘graphic design is my passion’ but also Neocities exists, which is explicitly about treating it as aspirational because humans (also I could not hope to reach those heights)

Perhaps much more hand-made looking art paired with fabulous typography. Back to the old orange-spine Penguin covers, that sort of thing. AI just can't do that, not without some very clever prompting, & even then it would just be quicker / more efficient to hire a designer & illustrator

I think AI fits very neatly into that maxim that you can have two of the following things but not all three: fast, cheap, good

I wanna go right back to making gig posters with the library photocopier and scissors.

With Microsoft Publisher, any village fete could knock up a decent poster with minimal skills and effort. With AI, those same people can put together a real piece of shit.

I do think there's going to be a motherlode of creativity built around "genAI could never"

I basically think of the "graphic design is my passion" meme as aspirational now, a lodestone of authenticity

“I don’t think this war is ever going to end unless we kick out the Arabs from there (Gaza) ... Or we’ll kill them” 🧵

The number of things that can no longer be reasonably ordered from UK suppliers is ever growing. It's not even the charges so much as the hassle and the chance that your parcel will be shipped back to sender leaving you still liable for mysteries charges.

Thanks to everyone who braved the storms to catch Ghosts this weekend. You’ve officially made it the number one movie in the UK!

*starts thinking about what colour cover it will have*

Starting Loki book seven. The final Loki. Here's to sticking the landing.

It's so rubbish

We’re closing in on the next stretch goal of the @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk #Murderbot graphic novel Kickstarter! That brings in four more artists. The stage after that gets us a Making Of! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

I see the excellent Once Was Willem by MR Carey won the World Fantasy Award I strongly recomend it www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/3/...

Sobs in I have a god kid in europe and readers I post packages to in ireland. And it's already currently almost impossible to post things to Ireland/europe without weird charges and returns. Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

This is why the right loves to demonize student- protests and left-wing movements. Because they know they can topple oligarchs.

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

Supporters filled the streets shouting and crying in celebration as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term. reut.rs/4eQvpRC

Now picturing a Mad Max desert future where there's also really attractive libraries

HEY! HI! HELLO! The ZENITH: FULL COLOUR OMNIBUS is on Final Order Cut-Off this weekend I had the deep, deep honour, thanks to the folks of @2000ad.bsky.social, of bringing Steve Yeowell's inks for Phases 1-3 to full colour and I hope you all contact your local comic shop to pre-order your copy now

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Eventually, it was decided to proceed woth the work required to deal with the One Ring Problem unofficially, as the need was pressing. It was noted wryly by all, however, that on successful completion it was reported as "magnificent work by the Council of Elrond" in internal comms.