Discovering Scarfolk: a wonderfully witty and subversively dark parody of life growing up in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s

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a b c d Littler, Richard (16 October 2014). "Why the 1970s was the most terrifying decade - Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2 November 2014.

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My Mom still listens to Evangelicals on TV. She told me just this week of a prophesy that there would not be a 2016 Presidential election if Christians don’t start praying! Littler: I like the clean lines and simple typefaces of modernism, and I’ve come to appreciate the aesthetic of Brutalist architecture. But it’s not just the period design I’m drawn to—I’m also interested in the pre-digital age and the idea that everything from that period is physically decaying.Paving slab damage was reduced by 25%, but the problem transferred to locomotives, specifically their paintwork, which was at risk of chipping after pushing people in front of trains became the new, preferred method of amateur execution. A folded map entitled Scarfolk & Environs: Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists was published by Herb Lester Associates Ltd on 2 November 2020.

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The orphans were children of disgraced artists, academics and other intellectuals who disappeared during the New Truth Purges of September 1977**. Cory Doctorow (23 April 2013). "Wyndhamesque missives from Scarfolk, an English horror-town trapped in a 1969-79 loop – Boing Boing". Boing Boing . Retrieved 14 October 2014.

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The charity lobbied the council which eventually agreed to regulate the amount of people that could be hurled from tall buildings (see poster above). Scarfolk designs often play with the modernist aesthetic of actual Penguin covers, like these three above. Collectors Weekly: Have people mistaken your designs for real artifacts? Based on the darkly hilarious Scarfolk blog, which presents odd items from the archives of an insular, paranoid, medically unsafe and supernaturally haunted town in the northeast of 1970s England, Discovering Scarfolk attempts to understand what happened to a man who may or may not have been named Daniel Bush, and who may or may not have lost two children who may or not have been his, and may or not have subsequently been held captive in Scarfolk itself. A town which may or may not exist. Two of the album covers Littler produced for Scarfolk. Collectors Weekly: What’s your typical method for creating Scarfolk graphics?