War Resistance, designed in the sixties by Ken Campbell, a great designer and book artist who died earlier this year theguardian.com/books/2022/oct…

So thrilled to see my Derek Jarman cover on the annual best covers of the year roundup at Literary Hub 🌈🪩

I spelled January wrong. bookcoverreview.co.uk is now live! The first ten reviews are up, with more to follow in the coming days (which will be announced via The Book Cover Review first). Enjoy!

Happy book birthday to THE STRANGE EGG - congrats to @KirstieMillar! 🎉 Full of tender, unflinching, honest writing on the experience of endometriosis, this pamphlet-length prose poem reflects the injustice of abusive medical systems. 🥚 Available now: theemmapress.com/shop/art-squar…

Not an ancient statue avi guy saying incorrect generalities about something... casual scripts were very popular in the fifties, thus some of the most famous examples (eg. Excoffon's Mistral or Choc) were released in the mid decade

Calling fans of graphic design... You can still grab a ticket for our next online talk 'Mid-Century Modern: Graphic Design' with Theo Inglis. Here are some example pages from Theo's book of the same title. You can purchase your ticket here: …ssell-design-museum.arttickets.org.uk/gordon-russell…

Talking mid-century modern graphic design tomorrow evening in an online lecture for the Gordon Russell Design Museum Gordon Russell Design Museum 6pm BST tickets available here: …ssell-design-museum.arttickets.org.uk/gordon-russell…

🦠🦠🦠 We are beyond delighted to announce that in October we will publish Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge’s mediative, book-length essay about intimacy, the poetics of infection, and learning to live with multispecies ambivalence Preorder now 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/products/loveb…

My new book The Graphic Design Bible is being published by Ilex Press later this month (and Prestel in 🇺🇸 & 🇩🇪 early October) instagram.com/reel/CxLQdjeov…

‘The Graphic Design Bible’ will expand your knowledge of the world of design and provide you with practical take-aways to inform your own creative practice. counter-print.co.uk/products/the-g…

Delighted that Hatherley’s years-in-the-making essay on Transformers has finally arrived. newsocialist.org.uk/more-than-meet…

ooh hello new Theo Inglis amzn.to/46tdmuM

The (new!) graphic design bible uses GT Pressura throughout 📙✨ Published by Ilex Press via Octopus Publishing

‘The Graphic Bible’ takes readers through the core building blocks of graphic design such as composition, colour, medium and typography, and explores how each has been utilised and revolutionised by designers through history, and up to the present day. counter-print.co.uk/products/the-g…

If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide:

What's the future of type? Our first guest essay by Erik Carter looks at the monotype monopoly, dafont.com + upending industry models abcdinamo.com/news/the-futur…

My Phil Baines obituary is in today’s The Guardian - the ink and paper version. You can find online version here: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… Thanks to Catherine Dixon for her help.

Wrote about the design of Berger’s books here: theo-inglis.medium.com/bergers-books-…

Gerald Cinamon obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

Greatest of all time RIP Derek Birdsall