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  • The New Oldest Sound Ever

    My Victorian friend Jos put me on to this… It is a Phonautograph.  In the interests of brevity, Wikipedia will tell you more about it. It was patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and was used to transcribe audio onto a (hand cranked) strip of paper, by means of an ‘hog bristle’ attached [...]

    10 February 2009 | 4 Comments | Read More

  • One Thing I Will Miss

    When I no longer smoke are the conversations with homeless people, drug addicts and other smokers I will no longer have. Over Christmas I was in Leeds, walking the streets, smoking. A young woman, seeming drunk, unsteady, asked for a cigarette. On the condition she could roll, I acquiesced. She laughed, complimenting me on my [...]

    3 January 2009 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

  • Uncanny Prescience

    It seems I have experienced an unlikeliness. I was recently struck by a beautiful image in the wonderous Cabinet of Wonders- Muirhead Bone’s drawing of the British Museum reading room in construction. It seemed so chaotic. And yet the buildings built from such precarious mounts remain solidly ornate, intricate and obsessively detailed, in contrast to [...]

    15 December 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

  • The Pipe of Communism

    My dad saw this at the Estorick gallery on Friday, and took a photo with his mobile phone. I love the design- a really simple image, in all my favourite colours. The smoke motif masking a collage of photos with its trim of curved text is an inspiration. I love the simplicity of the image, [...]

    14 December 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More

  • More Wet Letters

    So you remember this? Well it looks like somebody already devoted a whole load of time to developing the idea- Katja Schloz was a winner in the Type Directors Club 29th annual.
    Sadly the image is too small to see the detail, but I bet it’s there…
    Check out her portfolio- it’s great.

    14 December 2008 | 2 Comments | Read More

  • Gemma O’Brien

    I saw this lady’s work on I love Typography dot com, and I think it’s great. Go and see.

    24 September 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More

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