# week 17 of 2026 **April 26, 2026** ![[aliceWonderland.jpg]] [Animation.Backgrounds](https://www.instagram.com/animation.backgrounds/) is an Instagram account dedicated to showcasing backgrounds from classic animation ranging from Disney features to shorts by Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes. The above is from _Alice in Wonderland_. --- A busy couple of weeks for me as end of school year adventures come along. Last weekend I took seven students to the state SkillsUSA competition for design-related events. Nobody medaled but still a good experience for them. Looking forward, I have to coordinate an advisory board meeting, proctor a Photoshop certification exam, and wind down three college classes. My high school classes run into June so we'll be working on final projects and portfolios. First, though, we'll be creating animations!! --- ## retro graphic design stuff ![[busTicket.png|680]] The always amazing [Present & Correct](https://www.presentandcorrect.com/) featured a wonderful collection of [vintage bus tickets](https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/golden-tickets)from mid-century Milwaukee. Such great retro color schemes and intriguing typography. ![[japaneseGum.png]] Another cool one from Present & Correct is a collection of vintage [Japanese Gum Wrappers](https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/just-chew-it). I love this kind of stuff. ## more places to get lost for a long, long time [Things Magazine](https://www.thingsmagazine.net/) seems to be a huge site full of links to all sorts of art, design, and architecture content. I could easily get lost for weeks exploring here. I particularly liked learning about [how they created special effects in old video games](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ht6gfr46gk4nfkkfpqwh3su4/post/3me65y2uqbk2d). ![[kidsGallery.png]] [The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things](https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com) is a curated collection of seemingly random yet fascinating things. Some of this stuff is downright horrible and haunting yet still ridiculously interesting. The above isn't representative of the collection but I like the idea of how kids find their own things to be interested in. Fulltable has a huge listing of stuff related to [Color](https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/c/colour/menu.htm), including old books and articles, color sample sets, and color systems. I want to spend time migrating some of that information over to my page on [[color]]. The [Visual Primer of Advertising Cliches](http://advertisingcliche.blogspot.com/) is a massive collection of over 14,000 ads from 1900-2000 cross-referenced with themes like angry women and smug bastards to the Ford Galaxie and Lockheed Aircraft. ![[vegetables.png]] [Objects on a Page](https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/l/lo/menu.htm) is a collection of pages with pictures of many things on them all at the same time. Reminds me of the art of [Knolling](https://knolling.org/what-is-knolling): organizing elements on a flat surface.