Day 149 - 8:35pm, 30 May 2019
Today, we are having an Away Afternoon at work. Note, the "at work", i.e. we don't actually leave the building. Instead, we gather in a meeting room upstairs; when we would have settled for being in our other building next door which has access to free cakes and refreshments.
Ahead of the meeting, I decided to make a spoof version of the Ladybird books for grown up, The Meeting, and doctoring it to fit our team. It's the little things that amuse me!
I print out a copy which has all the old Ladybird pictures, with the new text alongside it. The pictures look very dated but it is hard to view them with anything but affection. Growing up, our view of the world was the Ladybird view of the world. It introduced us to the wider world and the timeless stories of our culture. But it wasn't just us, it was everyone had that filter. Every child and every household had Ladybird books.
I can't think of an equivalent today. There are popular books and authors but I can't think of a series that is both ubiquitous and covers everything. The filter that most children are introduced to the world through is Youtube and social media. We have lost that singular view. Is that a bad thing? No, life has moved on, but I hope we don't lose the standards of design and authorship that the Ladybirds had. It is all very well encouraging the immediate, but we must also leave a space for the timeless.
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