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Hooray! Advance copies arrived today – publication 22 Nov in UK – great preorder price at @blackwelloxford tinyurl.com/typo-vsi
#typography
100 years of the #ShippingForecast! @bbcpaddy Take a look at my visualisations in Typography: A Very Short Introduction tinyurl.com/typo-vsi Is it a list, a table, or a branching tree?
ALT The Shipping Forecast as a list
ALT The Shipping Forecast as a table (matrix)
ALT The Shipping Forecast as a branching tree
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Great work @typographer! Your book "Typography" made it to BookAuthority's list of best Typography ebooks of all time! bookauthority.org/books/best…
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1897 was a good year for vampires, with Bram Stoker's #Dracula unleashed on an unsuspecting public.
The iconic first edition is simple, yet striking – did you know that the colour yellow was synonymous with the more adventurous and transgressive elements of the Victorian fin de siècle? Here it is the colour of bruising and decay.
#WorldDraculaDay 🦇
📚 Cup.410.f.718.
ALT An image of the front cover of the first edition of Dracula. It is a bold yellow, with red lettering reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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A legal challenge has been made by @RightsClimate over the Salt Cross Garden Village development plan @WodcNews. Find out the details in our news story: eynsham-pc.gov.uk/org-news.a… @LeighDay_Law
ALT statue of the scales of justice
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It's done. It's here. It's 416 full colour pages of intense engagement with Arabic Typography: History and Practice
@NiggliV @Uni_Rdg_typo @EmanuelaConidi @BornaIz @gerryleonidas @ISType
niggli.ch/en/produkt/arabic-…
#Arabic #typography #type #book #research #design #education
.@eynsham1 Do you think @robertcourts voted for fracking because (a) he wants to frack West Oxfordshire or (b) he hopes for a job from Miguel Verde (aka the Home Secretary)
Now this is what I call #railwaymodelling rmweb.co.uk/blogs/entry/2562…
ALT A trades unionist addressing railway workers in 1911
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Recent writing and publishing by staff and friends of the Department: ‘Designing type revivals’ designingtyperevivals.com/, Isotype isotyperevisited.org/2022/08…, David King davidkingdesigner.com/blog/.
Now that’s what I call #informationdesign
Hurrah! Earl’s Court’s clunking great analogue destination indicators (absent for months) are BACK! @TfL has restored the 1905 ‘lightboxes’ to connect to new signalling system & many passengers already visibly delighted. Today I met project staff; resultant new video out next wk.
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Proud and pleased that Rathna Ramanathan @ratwoman will be our next head of college!
Is this a record? Passport renewal application posted online Thursday 30 June 10:09 - new passport delivered Thursday 7 July 08:54 (I won’t comment on the appalling new graphics…)
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Without Conservative government/austerity: top(ish) of the pack.
With Conservative government/austerity: bottom of the pack.
The Conservatives can't be trusted with the economy. They erode our incomes and erode our wealth.
Vote out the Conservatives, get richer.
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Covers for Design magazine, Council of Industrial Design, London: (1) Dennis Bailey, no. 196, April 1965, (2) Stephen Dwoskin, no. 223, July 1967, (3) Charlie Riddell, no. 250, October 1969, (4) Michael Farrell (Bentley/Farrell/Burnett), no. 269, May 1971.
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Now open in the Department: ‘Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at’, an exhibition exploring the concept of the male gaze in the work of British illustrator Charles Mozley. Curated by Cătălina Zlotea. Continues until 9 September. typography.network/2022/06/2…
Why it’s time for Labour to back proportional representation theguardian.com/politics/202…
