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Off to press! The Library Cosmic by Ben Berman Ghan for @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social. Whenever I can, I include some visual reference to the idea of a 'group' of some kind when designing a cover for a collection of stories. This one is no exception.

May the 4th be with you! Back in 1997, as a fledgling designer I was thrilled to redesign Star Wars Insider magazine (complete with recreating the 'Star Wars' logo in Macromedia Freehand). Creating a collage around the Lucasfilm provided Special Edition medallion felt like peak Photoshop!

Migrated my portfolio from Adobe Portfolio to Wordpress and did a little refresh. A digital Spring cleaning! www.michelvrana.com

Alton Brown and Babish together is just what I needed to see today. I haven’t laughed that much in a long while.

Thanks to Spine Magazine for featuring the cover to Ghosts of My Old Dominion for University of Kentucky Press as part of its monthly University Press Coverage for March: spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...

well since @sunnmcheaux.bsky.social doesnt post on here like that, I figured I'd share his video here for him Because of a time like this

Colour in Nara and Kyoto. All shot on iPhone with No Fusion and edited in Lightroom.

A few photos from Nara, Japan. Shot on Fuji XT30ii and iPhone 13.

I'm pumped to share the perfectly unsettling cover (designed by @michelvrana.com) for my novel THE PEACE THIEVES, out June 16, 2026 from @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com/books/the-pe... #canlit #fiction #novel

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

In my timeline I’m seeing that @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is getting death threats, and @karenattiah.bsky.social has been fired from the Washington Post, both for measured and reasonable writings about last week’s violence. Egregious and appalling.

Happy Pub Day to THE EVIDENCE IS LIFE by Anne E. Pfister! Visit our website for more information on the book, including how you can get your copy: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-... Cover design by @michelvrana.com ✨📚👌 #NewBook #ReadUP

The radio was playing at my 85 yo Dad’s place earlier and his ears perked up and he said “I love this song!” He didn’t know the name or the artist. I pulled out Shazam since I didn’t recognize it either. Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan.

Excited to share that ‘The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir’, a work of narrative nonfiction set in the Middle East, will be released this September. Cover art by @michelvrana.com. Many thanks to Canada Council for the Arts + Ontario Arts Council for their support. bit.ly/4o84UdH

So sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Just this weekend was enjoying his performance in Sneaky Pete on Netflix. Gone too soon.

My now nineteen year old son drew me this Superman when he was five. It's one of my favourite pieces of art.

As I downsize for the next chapter of my life, my apartment is approaching an almost nostalgic level of minimalism. Mattress on the floor and folding card table for meals. Part time digital nomad life is in my sights.

Nice! It looks like the Kanopy app now streams at least at 1080p on AppleTV. Makes the viewing experience so much more pleasant.

Montreal, are you okay? Reddit is replete with posts about stolen/missing pad thai and somehow both the Concordia Library and Communauto are involved. Whaaa? www.reddit.com/r/montreal/

Ah, Facebook marketplace, where you can have interactions where someone messages at 12:30pm to say they’ll know soon if they can make it before noon that same day but that it looks good.

I can't be the only one who's thinking Liquid Glass is Aqua 25th Anniversary Edition...

A perfect start to Friday. Fantastic new album by Little Simz. Loving 'Lotus' so far. Find it on your favourite streaming service and give it a listen.

File under: I never thought it would be an issue until I tried. Adobe Illustrator has no trouble exporting a PDF with layers intact, but importing the same PDF reduces everything to one layer. Affinity Publisher roundtrips the file just fine.

Get! Off! Substack! I won't read your links! If they're on substack!

Gaze upon these Sci Fi reissues from MIT Press with cover illustration and design by Seth: mitpress.mit.edu/search-resul...

Would love to know what’s happening in Lightroom on iPad: importing compressed Fuji raw files from a SD card reader and there are no previews, but those same files from the directly connected camera show previews. Is the camera doing something here?

Love this cover! And kudos to @johnchu.bsky.social for crediting the illustrator and designer!

Anyone else experience preja-vu, that feeling that deja-vu is just about to occur?

Reminder: Please join MQUP and McGill Libraries TOMORROW for a panel discussion on The Art of Book Design. 📅 Tuesday May 6, 2025 🕓 16:00 to 18:00 🏢 McLennan Library Building, Rare Books, 4th floor, Colgate Room 📍 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal ➡️ buff.ly/GuGifEZ

I don't doom scroll, but I follow so many interesting accounts on social media that time can slip away quickly while browsing... there's so much good stuff, but probably too much to process during any given session. Not sure what the solution is!

Sad to hear about the passing of Jackson “Butch” Guice. One of my favourite comic book artists when I was a kiddo. Between him and Michael Golden, I’ll always have fond memories of The Micronauts. (I didn’t connect with Gil Kane at the time!)

Thanks C.J. Looking forward to having a move leisurely read of the book once it’s printed!

I honestly was blown away by Sinners. I’m glad I went in without seeing any trailers and experienced everything for the first time on the big screen. What an accomplishment for everyone involved!

Your occasional gentle reminder that this place is not the other place. 💪🙂 Giving a post a Like on Bluesky won't boost its visibility (ie there's no Twitter-style algorithm here). If your intention is to draw wider attention to a post, you need to repost (and/or tag).

I rarely eat fast food and am surprised every time at just how expensive it’s become. Helped my son move out of university residence yesterday and we stopped at Wendy’s. A sandwich fries and drink combo each ended up being $33 with tax!

transgender people exist, and have as much right to exist as anyone else. any laws attempting to restrict such or pretend otherwise can only cause harm. there has already been too much harm.

Dropped into my local Elections Canada office and voted today. The young staffer who assisted me said it’s been a busy day! Great to hear!

After just over a week in Seoul shooting with the Fuji XT30 and I loved it. Now, which camera to prune from my collection… my XPro2 or X100F? Both?

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

On the subway in Seoul and a staff member is passing through the nearly full car but still sweeping garbage into a dustpan. Next level, South Korea!

I hate that Trump is treated like a force of nature that just happens to people instead of a monstrous brute of a man who is making the dumbest and most destructive choices possible and is 100% responsible for them.

An in depth and easy explainer of the faulty pretence behind the Trump tariffs. (Though I wish they'd reiterate that no country is 'charging' the US tariffs... It's worth repeating each and every time exactly how tariffs work). www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

Fresh. Fuji XT30II. #fujifilm #seoul

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Strips. Fuji XT30II. Black and white and colour variations. #fujifilm #seoul

Seoul My Soul. Fuji XT30II. #fujifilm

Bluesky shouldn't delete the accounts of people asking for assistance. And this is coming from someone who trusts almost no one! I left Twitter because the bigotry, trolling, and abuse was out of control. Not once did I think, "Hmmm, I'm seeing too many GoFundMes."

Getting to know my teeny Fuji XT30II and one of the complaints I've seen is how easy it is to accidentally press the Q (Quick) menu while holding the camera. Fair. But a quick bit of research and I've mapped that to another button and disabled the Q button. Easy fix!