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Atalanta Xanthe (@thinkaboutglue), art director for Works in Progress, hand-drew…

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Atalanta Xanthe, art director at Works in Progress, hand-illustrated a medieval border for an 1880s article about labor‑saving devices eliminating jobs; the June 13, 2026 post highlights her process image alongside the final spread and recommends following her (@thinkaboutglue) for more design work in the magazine's latest issue.

Why it matters

Atalanta Xanthe (@thinkaboutglue), art director for Works in Progress, hand-drew a medieval border for an article from the 1880s about labor‑saving devices 'taking all our jobs.'

Key details

  • The post (shared by @bswud on 2026-06-13) shows the design process image on the left and the final magazine spread on the right from the most recent issue of @WorksInProgMag.
Source evidence

If you're not following Works in Progress art director Atalanta Xanthe you should be!

Atalanta (@thinkaboutglue)

A perverse pleasure in hand-drawing a medieval border around this article from the 1880s about how labor saving devices will take all our jobs. One of my fav articles yet to design, from the most recent issue of @WorksInProgMag (process on the left, final spread on the right)

— https://nitter.net/thinkaboutglue/status/2065504550522327312#m