Luke Dorny

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An independent designer / artist living on an island.

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Refurbishing my second recent Apple Extended Keyboard II.

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AEK II

 Australian art mag Beautiful Bizarre, issue 51, Dec 2025

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Beautiful Bizarre 51

 MiniPhone Ultra Apple Watch wrapper in orange with stainless hardware. I will update this pic once they arrive.

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WatchPods

 The 1984 keycaps going on the numpad of the new aluminum block of a board, to replace the abysmal experience of the standard Mac or MacBook keyboards we’ve had to suffer through for decades.

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Extended Rabbits

 Burnout

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Keep Going

 Our most successful Pacific Northwest Plumeria start to date! Sept. 5, 2025

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Built

 Joe Strummer playing at Irvine Meadows Hootenanny festival in 2002, playing Rudy Can’t Fail (Clash)

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Strummer

 The Paramount, Seattle

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Pixies & Zombies

 Cover of Communication Arts Photography Annual 66

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CommArts Photo 66

 Vanspotting

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Yes Van

 Photo of the cover of Beautiful Bizarre magazine on my kitchen counter.

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Beautiful Bizarre 49

 Australian art mag Beautiful Bizarre, issue 50, Sept 2025

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Beautiful Bizarre 50

 Issue 67 magazine cover for Hi Fructose

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Hi-Fructose 67

 Thrilling vintage action with a sharp eye’s nod to classic pulp cover oil paintings. The cover of Action Adventure by DJ Shadow, with artwork by Ron Lesser.

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Action

 All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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All Systems Read

 Cover crop of Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson from Wikipedia

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Robopocalyptic

 Space Probe PDF from Emigre.

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Space Probe

 My latest batch was really cacao-flavored. Perfect! And it is a great coffee for drinking with cream, which is my anti acidity approach to coffee’s weapon.

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Milk Money

 The first Polaroid image. Via PBS youtube video screenshot.

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Polaroid

 Cover of Eye 107

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Eye 107

 Stanley pocketknife 10-049

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Stanley

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Labyrinth

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 The Artist known as Futura / Futura 2000, icon, painter, street artist, ’former’ graffiti / graff-writer, teacher, collaborator, and more.

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Futura

 Issues five and six of seven issues of Grommets skate comic.

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Grommets

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Tulip

 Snapshot of the cover art for Pixies’ fourth album Bossanova via mobile phone via streaming app on a TV box, thus the raster lines.

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Pixies Are Cryptic

 Cover for *Citizen Printer* with insert behind showcasing the “All artists are political” print.

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Citizen Printer

 Cover of *What Art Does*, on my kitchen counter, all *cleaned*.

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What Art Does

 The display in the window of the museum. Apologies for the reflections.

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Power of the Presses

 Watch the visualizer on their site to see more than two hours of this character meditating on a boulder in a misty valley. It’s amazing, that there is no flinching, coughing, or restroom visits, really.

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Röyksopp

 Assembling the metal into the wood. So satisfying.

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Voyager Console

 Snapshot of one of Tim’s incredible renderings for this set of keycaps. Smell that eraser yet?

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MVKB

 Another ten Minidiscs shipped from Osaka, Japan. Perfect packing paper.

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Minidisc

 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4!

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Tony Hawk Pro Skater

 Cover of recently published reprint of Ray Bradbury’s *Fahrenheit 451*

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Fahrenheit 451

 Pia grabs and shakes me!

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Trolls

 Title page for William Gibson’s novel *Neuromancer*

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Nueromancer

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