Leonie Shanks

Design, policy & user researcher currently based in gov. Passionate about education. PhD in modernist epistolary networks. Learning about trees. Love to cook.

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie I know! Weird that the tropes haven't moved on in about 100 years or so!

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie I'm late to the party but Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, or John M Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, could all provide some inspiration on this front!

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie Yay, well done Martha!

[martin grasser @martingrasser]

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird

This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,

The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

[diamond geezer @diamondgeezer]

If you live in East London, tonight's your last post-9pm sunset until May 2024. If you live in West London you've got one more tomorrow.

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@scabsarerats It's so depressing isn't it! Gah.

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

I’m ill and sad today, and I just came out of four hours of teaching, and honest to god I stared at this infographic for ages, uncomprehending, and had to check this wasn’t a parody account. I’m truly speechless.

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

Cereal design has definitely gone downhill

[Vittles @vittlesmagazine]

Today’s newsletter by @rubytandoh is about the post-war work of the Sainsbury’s Design Studio and their striking, innovative packaging which wrapped eggs and cornflakes in designs influenced by everything from the Bauhaus to constructivism and abstract art
https://t.co/yRECewHuRz

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie @Mslexia Well done!!

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

Monaco — a wall to keep the ocean at bay. Amazing

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

When I worked as an Associate Lecturer, I worked out I was being paid £4 per hour when you factored in all the hours I put in to deliver quality seminars & student feedback. Solidarity to all the striking workers fighting this broken model.

[Chris Kempshall (Gone to Bluesky) @ChrisKempshall]

I can imagine, and understand, that these strike dates will be greeted with a fair amount of shock, surprise, and concern from students and their parents. £9k a year on university fees is a lot. So I want to explain just how much these institutions value students. 1/

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie Theo acts as if he's being mutilated every time we change his nappy. Which is about 12 times per day. Good to know we've got many more years of this

[Frankie Bond @FrankieDotBond]

There’s a really touching bit in Spare where Harry ponders the sort of friends he might have had, were he granted a “normal” life. I found it genuinely moving.

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie OMG so gross

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

Sorry, in what world is the impending breakdown of the entire ecosystem not considered "a depressing domestic challenge"?

[Adrian Edmondson ❎ @AdrianEdmondson]

This obsession with ‘working hard’ and ‘hard working families’ is depressingly Victorian. We live in an age of machines that can do all that stuff for us. People should be having more diverse and more fulfilled lives, not grinding away until they die.

[Lauren Currie OBE @_laurencurrie_]

"What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable?

If that were our metric, our world would be a different place"

Jacqueline Novogratz

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@marthie This is such a good idea! I would definitely come!

[Leonie Shanks @LeonieShanks]

@sasha_weirdsley 🙏🙏🙏

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Did you know scientists now all agree that for a sustainable world we need fundamental changes to 'underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political & economic systems, and power relationships'? It's like a colossal hint that today's system is killing us. 🧵