Designer/teacher based in Tāmaki Makaurau via London, Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Arnhem, Chicago & Providence. @practise@typo.social @practise.bsky.social
"Crazy as Hell" by Hoke S. Glover III and @V_Efua_Prince, with an introduction by Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts, is out today!
"Crazy as Hell" is a refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history.
Quoting @million_book here:
When Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts worked as a librarian in prison, he was paid 54 cents an hour. That’s “crazy as hell.” And what’s “crazy as hell” is that Norton donated 54 cents to FR for every copy of the book in the first run.
RIP Jamie Reed who laid out the first English translation of ‘Leaving the 20th Century- the incomplete works of the Situationist International’. The innovative collage images he created would subsequently be included in the Sex Pistols’ ‘Never mind the Bollocks’ Album.
i’m sorry i can’t think of a joke funnier than twitter failing to get the necessary permits to change their building signage and the police shutting it down just in time for “er” to remain
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announced ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting in the SCOTUS affirmative action case.
Martina Plantijn is a better Plantin.
Informed by the workhorse qualities of Pierpont’s typeface and expanding upon his research of 16th century type at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Martina Plantijn makes decisive digital updates across its roman and italic cuts.
The exhibition catalogue "Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century" is now available to purchase at the Whitney Museum shop @whitneymuseum.
shop.whitney.org/josh-kline-…
ALT The exhibition catalogue "Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century" stands against a gray background. The front of the catalogue depicts two laptops held together haphazardly by tape printed with a pattern of an American flag.
Paul St. Hilaire makes nothing but straight up genius, timeless shit, and is responsible for singing on my favorite song of all time.
First two singles off this one as an indicator, this is ROTY contender.
My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.
First one: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…