Our groundskeeper, fish tank cleaner, and seasonal poolboy, Sven, recently found a box of Flamingo Beach Postal Service pocket tees in the shed by the pool! They are for sale at the Tomato Lab Market while supplies last. Thank you.
All offices, including the Main Campus, the gift shop, the taco truck in the parking lot, the Xerox Climate Lab, and the library are closed to officers, staff, and visitors until sometime in early May depending on when Pokey the Pigeon gets back from Florida—and if he stays out of jail.
The Department of Information is closed for winter break. All offices, including the Main Campus, the taco truck in the parking lot, the Xerox Climate Lab, and the library are closed to officers, staff, and visitors until January 5th, 2026. The pool is also closed. Stay away from the pool. Thank you.
Our information ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon, was handing out anti-AI brochures at the local mall recently when a group of teenagers mistook him for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s sinister, owl-based weather mascot, Owlie Skywarn. It was weird—none of us had ever heard of Owlie before. Curious about this odd cousin of our […]
We recently discovered a stash of loose vintage U.S. Forest Service pamphlets under the sofa mattress in the basement office of our Information Ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon. Apparently, he teamed up with Woodsy Owl—a lesser-known but equally strange Forest Service mascot who is now banned from several national parks for reasons we won’t get into—and […]
One of our unpaid interns found this pamphlet from 1978 underneath the office kitchen fridge while cleaning the drip pan after they spilled one of those paper trays of to-go coffees all over the floor. In exchange for class credit and office redemption we had them sterilize and photograph it for our consumer report and […]
The Department of Information is closed for winter break. All offices, including the Main Campus, the taco truck in the parking lot, the Xerox Climate Lab, and the library are closed to officers, staff, and visitors until January 1st, 2025. Thank you.
We told our unpaid interns that they would not be permitted to take off work on Election Day unless they created a civic-minded, positive, art-oriented post by the end of the week. This is what they came up with. Please take a look at some of the more visually interesting voting advocacy or voting advocacy-adjacent […]
It’s campfire season here at the Department, and whether you’re burning barrels full of confidential documents or old office furniture full of asbestos, it’s important to practice fire safety. We’ve enlisted our newly minted Information Ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon, to dig through the U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear Collection at the USDA National Agricultural Library […]
Captured by Landsat 1, the first satellite of the US’s Landsat program, in the early 1970s at a scale of 1:500,000 (1 cm equals 5 km), these satellite images of Florida were superimposed with a Mercator grid, printed onto oversized poster panels, and then—likely decades later—scanned and digitized in ultra high-resolution. The resulting images, showing […]
Television test cards were elaborate, strange patterns and graphics used for visual calibration or for filling gaps and dead air in the early days of T.V. broadcasting. Often appearing for hours overnight when stations would “sign off”, they would have entered the cultural imagination as hypnotic oddities—likely untrusted and alien—but would come to fill a nostalgic void made up of colorful, wild, and geometric glowing shapes. What weird, luminous, and mesmerizing patterns do we use today to fill up our empty spaces?
While we here at the Department of Information have successfully stamped out many attempts over the decades at unionization from within our own ranks—sometimes through illegal, quasi-legal, and morally dubious methods—we still know how to appreciate good union branding when we see it.