Clearing out some of the bulkier files on illarterate.co.uk, I came across a timeline created for my final year Graphic Arts Research Project (GARP) I’d completely forgotten about. It may be text only, but wasn’t teletext? Well, I know it incorporated some primitive artwork, but wasn’t the text the bit you were interested in? No? Forget it.

Anyway, with Teletext all but dead now –I believe a small percentage of the UK still have access to digital signals– I thought it an appropriate time to repost this. The top half relates to teletext-specific landmarks whilst the lower portion outlines related technology in other areas such as video gaming and computing development.

Click here or the pic for supreme quality pdf (70kb, right click > save as to save to disk).

Anybody who’s bought a newspaper and looked at the back page today will probably have noticed a particularly poor Photoshop of Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt. This one, in fact:

The image that launched a thousand smirks. Maybe.

Well, guess who made it? That’s right, some fool whose text you are reading right now. Namely myself. Feel free to peruse the gallery below, which I am compiling in honour of this moment of (anonymous) fame for Harry Yack.

See here for a brief background on the image’s origin and why it’s such a poor Photoshop. Though I guess anyone with eyes is able to see that.

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Just some simple designs for a wider project encompassing many aspects of Wigan life. I’ll post all the stuff I’ve done in due course, but for now make do with perhaps the most famous of all Wigan brands (save maybe Pooles Pies), Uncle Joe’s.

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Harry Yack’s had a Teletext makeover! Get down to the Retro Yakking Today blog and check out its new, tweaked header. The change marks a wider revamp for the site, which will start to focus on the retro subjects promised in the title as well as a variety of new topics including opinions and such thinly disguised as parody news stories. Currently updated with two posts per day, but I don’t know how long this will last for.

Go there now.