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).

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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You know what? I forgot all about this thing, so it came as a pleasant surprise when I encountered it once again this afternoon. As with most of my stuff, there’s quite a few bugs in there, though these are by human error rather than design.

I thoroughly recommend Whiteboard Pong, though the Snake game is always worth a go… if you can stand the Roobarb and Custard Style wobbly lines!

Click here for endless hours of fun!

Or here to download the Office Pong game

Looks like a few others agree with me, though I have no idea why.

• Zoomdoggle
• YepYep
• And, of course, Illarterate the blog. Heheh.
  

Definitely works in Explorer, though I can’t get seem to get it to work in Firefox. Maybe that’s why I never publicised it at the time.

As a bit of a follow up to my earlier piece on Wikia, I’ve gone to the trouble of outlining some specific things you ought to know when creating a Wikia wiki. Don’t see these articles as a personal attack on Wikia, who, on the whole provide a very good service. Consider them a rant against the general over-reliance on advertising at free content websites, something that’s becoming increasingly prevalent in this current economic climate, and something that cheeses me off slightly.

Look out for more posts on this subject in the future and perhaps some sort of archive bringing all my Wikia pieces together.