This page is for Dr. Ryan Skinnell’s inspirational graphic designs. They are all satire! Some are pretty obscure (you may need to Google). Also, some of them are wholesome, and some are extremely dark, in particular around murder and genocide. None contain explicit violence or sexuality, but some contain mature implications. Be warned.
Anyone is welcome to download and distribute these images for free. Attribution appreciated but not required.
Achilles
Archimedes
Aristotle
Cleopatra
Damocles
Diogenes of Sinope
PLATO
The dead stare is Plato’s but the quote is actually borrowed from a 20th century Italian philosopher-king. Karl Popper helped inspire this inspirational combination.
Icarus
Medusa
Oedipus
Pandora
Priam
Prometheus
Sisyphus
Socrates
Zeno
ZEUS
King of Mount Olympus, god of sky and thunder, and serial philanderer, Zeus offers a helpful reminder that we all have bad days, and we should keep our eyes on better days ahead.
Caligula
Nero
Scheherazade
Vlad the Impaler
Marco Polo
Fibonacci of the Sequence
Genghis Khan
Joan of Arc
Moctezuma II
Explorers!
These fine fellows set out to discover a new world. No matter that it had already been discovered by the people living in the worlds these explorers “found”! A massacre here, an unprecedented genocide there, and they got themselves into the history books!
Ophelia
Poor Yorick
Margaret Cavendish
Newton
King Charles of the
Hapsburg Jaw
Willy Bligh
Sacagawea
Marie Antoinette
Edgar Allan Poe
19th Century Serial Killers
As I tell my children all the time, “We do NOT kill people!” Apparently these people’s parents were either silent on the matter or less insistent than I. Still, an inspiring word can come from anywhere!
Abraham Lincoln
Shikashe
Darwin
Mark Twain
Ahab
Marie Curie
Madame Blavatsky
Rasputin
Al Capone
Genocidal Monsters
These statesmen were inspiring leaders in many, many domains of human activity, including and especially killing a huge number of people. Leadership takes many forms, I suppose.
Freud
Einstein
Amelia Earhart
Ayn Rand
Carl von Cosel
Howard Hughes
James Baldwin
Imelda Marcos
Charles Manson
20th Century Serial Killers
Like their 19th century predecessors, these historical figures were pioneers in their craft. You wouldn’t want to meet them in a dark alley. Thankfully wisdom can be transmitted through the written word.
Sophie Oluwole
Pablo Escobar
Suge Knight
Never Stop Believing in Yourself
Satan is all about that rise and grind culture. Get you a side hustle or two! If anyone can do it, you can. You just need to believe in yourself!
Dissoi Topoi
I adopted this phrase at the title of my blog in grad school. I guess it’s sort of become my brand by default. Or whatever.
“As the inspiration series reminds us, there’s nothing to fear but fear itself! These messages give us the encouragement to be ourselves, take the bull by the horns, and just do it!”
Lavrentiy B.
@JustNKVDoIt
“Never let success go to your head, and never let failure get to your heart. And for the times when you’re unsure about where you stand, you can always return here for inspiration.”
Oprah W.
@Empowr
Dr. Ryan Skinnell 