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again: publishing as artistic practice

Another plug for Scratching the surface, a podcast about design criticism and practice. It’s shaping up to an impressive catalogue of interviews about design, criticism, architecture, writing, publishing, education with people who work across those different but connected domains. I put one one for when I go for my walk.

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The grammar of ornament, beautiful. Need to check, but I think Johanna Drucker references this in her book Graphesis.

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I’m setting up a printing forme that will fit eight A5-ish blocks into a 46x64 cm sheet of paper. I turned a first series of prints like this into small booklets, zines. Looking forward to produce a new series of works this way. This time I want to connect this with my Calligraphic Space themed pieces.

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Speaking of Calligraphic Space, 36 days of type has kicked off. Main channel is Instagram. I’m posting processed scans of hand-drawn versals copied from this manuscript.

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A database of sans serifs sold in 19th-century Germany by Dr. Dan Reynolds.

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Music via stereogum’s Black Market for March, featuring Esoctrilihum and Mare Cognitum and Spectral Lore and Forhist (by BaN’s Vindsval) and Bríi (by Kaatayra’s Caio Lemos). Lots of good stuff coming out.