Henry Wilkinson

@wilkinson.graphics

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Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music. Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY Lab

A map of Toronto's waterfront with 3D buildings, parks, and park names with icons
OpenStreetMap building data for Toronto's downtown core, rendered in greyscale with some simple 3D building detail visible
A sign taped to a recycling bin that says “Your on camera” noting they’ll contact the cops if you dump recycling into their bins. The “your” used here is not the proper contraction of “you are”
The PVC pipe instrument with all the tubes arranged reasonably nicely
Incredibly nerdy dork plays the Doom riff on a PVC pipe instrument
The front of the PVC pipe instrument sitting half-finished in its plywood cabinet. A spaghetti mess of black pipes crowds the interior.
A PVC pipe instrument in a garage with a shop vac and workbench
A swift waterfall cuts through a conifer forest
The Victoria’s Secret logo
Tweet from Robert Evans: welcome to the age of Weird Terror. just shooting up a school or a grocery store doesn't get you attention anymore, and so would-be mass murderers all try to find some way to peacock to get attention. we're going to see more eccentric manifestos and styles of attack every year.
Photo out of the front windshield of a Toyota Rav4 with the licence plate "SQUIDS" and writing on the back that says "LLMs aren't conscious but you should still be nice to them. Kant was right. Being mean to anything ruins your soul!" and "The Kant Car" on the spare tire cover.
Henry’s two most novel posts: 1. “The LIBERAL MEDIA doesn’t WANT you to k ow that furniture polish is DELICIOUS” 2. “If you wanted to supplant real ingredients with incredibly finely ground sand, which food would be able to take the most sand before people started to notice?”
A list of items and sub-items, the items are numbered 1-2 whereas the sub-items are only bullet points.
A completely nonsensical AI generated diagram from Microsoft presumably created with the intention of showcasing how Git branches work. The Y axis of the graph is labeled "Tim". A callout mentions that "bugfixes may be continvoucly morged". Many arrows are scattered between points on the graph yet no ideas seem to be easily conveyed. A complete failure of information design.
Label of a juice shot ingredients list consisting of orange, ginger, lemon, and oil of oregano. A label below the ingredients says: “Please consult your doctor before use. This is not a medical prescription” as if somehow this vial of juice is a pharmaceutical product.
A graph displaying the percentage of Henry's Bluesky image posts. 100% of images have alt text which is 116% above average.
A basement apartment kitchen with two small skinny grey refrigerators that are reminiscent of certain buildings.
A spinning pixel art cube containing grassy islands in water
Screencast of a node-based creative software application. A cube is passed through a chain of nodes, the output is an animation of different coloured pixelated cubes exploding from a central point.
A crowded gallery of folks looking at cool typography art!
A hidden text file containing ASCII art of a flower with the message "It's dangerous to go alone. Here, take this with you ❤️"
Black and white headshot of 1800s American political economist Henry George
A lush green river surrounded by newly planted trees, wetlands, and meadows. A decommissioned power plant and large power lines are visible in the background amidst a partially cloudy sky.
SmokeSignal's user profile page. Users can see a list of recent activity and events, there's a settings button, and an option to import records.
A card with prompts on it titled HTML in the Park. A cute green bug is resting on the top left of the card. Laptops, people, and picnic blankets can be seen in the corners of the frame
A photo of a turtle crossing a gravel road around sunset. A long shadow stretches out behind it as its head reaches upward toward the direction of the sun
One of James McLeod’s “austerity TO” art plaques reading “Neighbourhood Character: 2022” crediting John Tory as the artist of an abandoned building.
Goats chilling in a grassy meadow surrounded by fence.
A table of characters and how they map to hex codes
ASCII art rendering of an old computer with a CRT monitor on a desk at the beach
A square with red and green sides, the middle line between the sides is blurred respects the brightness of both sides and accurately transitions between them instead of getting darker
An image with green and red sides, blurred with a gross dark line in the middle that shouldn't be darker than either side but somehow is due to improper colour math.
Two browser windows side by side showing the same web form. In Firefox there is no "Validate your slip" section which is the only way the user can proceed with creating their T4 slip!
A macOS app icon containing a pink, jelly like representation of an X made of five cubes. This x pattern is similar to one commonly found in a Bayer matrix dithered image, as shown in the background gradient behind the icon.
A Macintosh Classic with the screen turned off. As the cursor moves a wipe bar across the screen Macpaint is shown composited onto the monitor!
The dialogue released with their mockup, a light brown pop up with one button (add to cart) and generic mockup artist names and album art
A screenshot of The Wall Street Journal's website stating that I have been blocked, likely due to bot activity.
The other day I was able to briefly convince my mom that The Brutalist — the new movie — is about a German architect who's name is "Hans Binkler" and that everyone in the office knew him as the smartest guy around so they coined the term "if you don't know what to thinkler, go see Binkler!" "You'll see it in the movie" I said, and she BOUGHT IT! Then she went ".... This is all nonsense". I've been trying to relive that high ever since
Screenshot of Berkeley Mono V2 listed in Apple's Font Book viewer. It is named "TX-02" — the font's product ID instead of "Berkeley Mono" — the previous name.
Screenshot of the Microsoft Store's app updates page. Two buttons are in the top right labeled "Update all" and "Get Updates. The only help text provided is "Download and install app updates by clicking "Get updates", an action that the "Update all" button ALSO seems to do!
Dithered image with stylized colours of redwood trees in a forest, the sky is peaking out in the top left corner
A still frame from The Simpsons: A yellow hand holds up a can of "Nuts and Gum" with the caption on the can also reading "Together At Last!"
A membership certificate for Subvert and a zine with a bright orange cover. The Zine is entitled: Subvert: A plan for the artist owned internet.
An old note pad with a printed template for taking phone messages. It has a field pre-printed with “Mr.” As the title for the person who called, and a checkbox labeled “please cal him”.
A map of parks, buildings, and sidewalks in the Junction — a neighbourhood in Toronto Canada — drawn with a plotter.
A framed picture of a grey blob — like the ones used by the city of Toronto to cover graffiti — affixed to a concrete block
Bluesky's 10M users graphic displaying that Henry Wilkinson was user 10,778 and in the first 1% of users on the network.
A beautiful vista seen atop a hill with lush shrubs and a large water tank in the foreground. A small town sits off to the left with mountains in the background. The top half of the image is covered with dramatic clouds and a bright sunshine peaking through them
Panel discussion in the woods with Deepti Doshi, Rabble, and Jay Graber on a stage with a large screen behind them
Screenshot of a banner reading "GitHub Models: Join the limited public beta. Try, test, and deploy a range of popular AI models with an interactive playground, for free, right on GitHub."
A drop-down menu with the options: male, female, diverse
An airport truck for “DOCO: the Gourmet Entertainment Company” also sporting the text “REGULATED GARBAGE”
An automated email from Hubspot’s sales team: I was notified you clicked on a locked feature in your HubSpot portal or on another in-app button. As your dedicated growth specialist, my goal is to make sure you are set up for success. You can unlock locked features by upgrading your HubSpot plan. If you would like to learn more about these locked features, I can walk you through them during a call. I'm here to help. Feel free to reply to this email with questions or to book time directly, on my calendar.
The Vice.com topic page for "drinking cum for sport". It has one article.
An error page from the Canada Revenue Agency website explaining that their services are not available during this time — like a grocery store or some shit.
The first section of this website. A large title proclaims "We are not a casino, we do not seek to decive!"
The nav bar of "galleon.games", the first piece of text unconvincingly reads "we are not a casino!"
Rows, switches, and diodes in a keyboard matrix. All are labelled with a delightful monospaced typeface (Berkeley Mono)
A 2 story brick building with windows, a large green door, and a gate. The sign on the building reads “Toronto Hydro Electric System, Ossington Ststion”
805 Wellington St. West in Toronto. A two story industrial brick building overgrown with vines. The front of the building has three large garage doors.