A definitive guide to all Los Campesinos! football references
An obsessive's index of every football reference buried in the Los Campesinos! catalogue, sorted release by release.
Ace of Cups - Luke Murphy's personal website
This is the personal site (and portfolio) of Luke Murphy, the Australian-cum-British designer, developer, writer, speaker and general reprobate.
Latest posts
On Australia and making new music
I kind of fell back in love with the country I'm from, and decided to start a new music project.
Weeknotes - on being a different person in different places
A trip to Berlin triggers some introspection.
Weeknotes - How does one be bored?
I find it almost impossible to be still or bored most days
Weeknotes - New year heaviness
Anybody else feeling like 2026 is... weighty?
Year in Review 2025
A look back at the year that was
Weeknotes - Digital patina, decision making, and svg filters
You'd think these things are related, but they aren't. Sorry.
Weeknotes - On not having control
Welcome to the semi-regular self-therapy session. I'm not going to lie, I've been feeling pretty low over the last week or so.
How to run a DIY gig
This article was originally written for the Nothing Feels Good zine in 2023.
Weeknotes - On live music, attention and social anxiety
I want to find joy in seeing music again
Weeknotes - on being queer and using clothing as armour
Once again, I'm trying to make weeknoting a habit again, and we'll see if it lasts beyond February.
I've been using AI and I feel dirty
At OFFF last month, there were a few people who talked about using AI, specifically image generation with things like Midjourney, to aid them when they were…
Weeknotes - good creatives vs douchebag creatives
This week has been primarily focussed on OFFF Festival in Barcelona. Nic and I decided to use our L&D budget this year to download a dose of inspiration into…
Weeknotes - maybe i should just go sit down
Time to get back into this weeknoting thing…
Passing Problematic
Originally published in Darkest Timeline Discozine Issue #1. If you want to pick up your copy and support the DIY and queer music scene in the UK, you can do so…
ADHD and managing side projects
This is a version of a talk that I gave to You Got This! in September 2022. If you'd like me to give this talk at your meetup or conference, let me know on…
Impulsivity vs Hyperfixating
Brains are weird. I've been trying to be a lot more aware of the thought patterns I have over the last 2.
Weeknotes - front-end conferences and millennial angst
— Conference season has kicked off again in earnest after the last two years of staring at a Zoom screens, and I am utterly delighted to see faces from Twitter…
Weeknotes - A small note on Plants and ADHD
— About 8 years ago when I was working with Microsoft, our team did the Belbin test to know our personality types so we could understand each other a little…
Weeknotes - I cant believe I chose the mountains every time you chose the sea
— I finally got my hands on Los Campesinos! The Universe Replied and promptly devoured it in a couple of sittings. For those who don't know LC!
What is a design advocate?
At the risk of this sounding like a support group — Hi, my name's Luke and I'm a design advocate.
Weeknotes - I wanna move to Switzerland
— Let's start with some music. First off, my band finally released their first single from the new album FINALLY, which is super exciting (and we filmed a…
Weeknotes - Proud of myself and the loner I've become
— A bumpy start then... after committing to myself that I'll start blogging weekly, I completely forgot about it seven days later.
Weeknotes - I am not the Fred Astaire of words
— Another six months, another failed half year of writing. Although I've been writing a lot more over on the zeroheight blog (and learning loads along the way)…
Centralising or Embedding your Product Design Team
A problem that seems to come up a lot within small to medium size product companies is whether you'll get more value out of your Product Design team being…
A blank slate
There's nothing like a new year for a blank slate. There's something about the arbitrary marker of time that makes you feel like anything is possible.
Web Celebrities - a bad term for a good thing
Ever since I got involved in the design and dev community online, the whole 'web celebrity' thing has been a topic that keeps coming up.