There’s something magical about a type walk indiastreetlettering.com/type-walks/. I love seeing folks who were curious about typography end our stroll with an appreciation of letterforms grounded in cultural history. Pictures from my new type walk in Mandi House, Delhi that I debuted in September ⬇️

Typozon⁠ @typozon.bsky.social Tânia Raposo⁠ Valetina Casali⁠ Christian Schwartz⁠ @commercialtype.bsky.social Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social alongside items from the Archive’s collection by⁠:⁠ ⁠ Jacob Jongert⁠ Giambattista Bodoni⁠ Louis Ramade⁠ Louis Jean Pouchée⁠ Milwaukee & Suburban Transit…

Our final batch of 100 Tens features contributions from this brilliant bundle of designers:⁠ ⁠ Lucas Sharp⁠ Matthijs Herzberg⁠ @herzberg.bsky.social Nolan Pelletier⁠ @nolanpelletier.bsky.social Craig Frazier⁠ Oded Ezer⁠ Christoph Niemann⁠ @christophniemann.bsky.social Petra Dočekalová Susan Kare⁠…

Opinions are like software updates—nobody asked for them, but they keep showing up anyway.

Tonight I’ll be at @letterformarchive.org’s online salon letterformarchive.org/shop/the-pas... to talk about my contribution to their 10th anniversary celebration, which pairs 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection with 50 new designs. No surprises that my “1” is a “१”, but more at the event 😊

Watch till the end to catch a glimpse of my contribution to @letterformarchive.org’s 10th anniversary celebration. It was such an honour to be invited to participate and be featured among stalwarts, past and present! 😇

Burning the midnight oil 🕯️ Working on edits for the book 🧑🏽‍💻

Even if you missed the Kickstarter you can still pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's INDIA STREET LETTERING! At a discount, for a limited time! www.blaft.com/products/ind... Check out her Blag article for a sneak preview! bl.ag/indian-sign-...

Ooh 👀 Look @typetogether.bsky.social!

In the 1980s, Futura was a typographic voice for activism. A great example was the Guerilla Girls. Interview of the Collective (in French) www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/offre-aux...

I really feel like anyone still on Substack in 2025 is really going to regret it in 2027 when it fully turns into the closed-garden social network it is absolutely planning to be. Learn the lessons of Twitter and Instagram—pay for your platform, otherwise you're the product.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

Our Kickstarter is at 87%!! CLOBBER THE BANDIGOAT WITH COIN www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

The finished pages of @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING are rolling in and they look AMAZING 😍 For a limited time, you can pre-order the book at a discounted price! Releasing in December! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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From yesterday's Economic Times! Quicc, while the Ace of Base song is playing in your head, go pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's book www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Some Putney #ghostsigns Window Cleaning & Carpet Beating Co Tarrant Juvenile Outfitter H Roffe & Sons Contractors Hair Cutting and Shaving Saloon

I continue to be astonished by the new ways that Global North counties invent to be barbaric and savage in their cruelty towards children.

The booking of all types of postal articles destined for the US will be temporarily suspended from Monday, except for letters or documents and gifts up to the value of $100, the Ministry of Communications said in a statement. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10858... #PostalServices

Today is Madras Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_..., and I am marking it by ogling at one of my favourite signs from the city indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/adv... 🤩

Are you a musician who is comfortable doing your act on Zoom for 10 minutes to start our all-hands meetings? blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

Working on the India Street Lettering book, and InDesign is being InDesign 🫠 I promise the final printed copies won’t have spreads that look like this 🙈 so it should be safe to pre-order a copy from @blaft.bsky.social www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Hey there! Do you love old school painted signage, indic script, neon lights, colourful lorry art, and creative letterforms? Why not pre-order @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING, due out in December?? www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Orijit Sen's Mapusa Mogi mural is 100% funded in under 3 days! You can still get yourself or a friend painted into it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/533...

Today I'm coming back to E.L. Doctorow's description of writing a book as like driving a car at night: "you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

(Reposting with better image resolution!) From the trucks of Kochi to the bandwagons of Lucknow, @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING will showcase the country's vibrant public signage. Releasing in December! Pre-order now for a discounted price! www.blaft.com/products/ind...

I have an entire photo-book *and* a photo-zine to layout, but all I can think of is new zine ideas I can work on next year. That is normal, right?

OK we're planning to end Late Pledges on the India Street Lettering campaign tonight. One day left to reserve your book through Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... Or pre-order on our site (this isn't going anywhere): www.blaft.com/products/ind...

"Much #digitisation is being performed by private companies operated for profit. In the future, do we want the only copies of rare and important #books and #periodicals to be controlled by businesses rather than public #libraries that are free for all?" theconversation.com/valuing-our-...

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

Should we do an event in Bangkok in October? It sounds super fun but costs a little money to get there & ship books. Anyone in Thailand interested in English translations of Indian pulp fiction and ghostlore and anti-caste SF and wacky zines?

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

You gotta go look at @matratype.bsky.social's blog post with the bus art and boat art from Kochi and the bandwagons from Lucknow bl.ag/indian-sign-... And then pre-order her book! www.blaft.com/collections/...

In case you were having trouble paying in rupees on Kickstarter: INDIA STREET LETTERING is now up for pre-order on our website. www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

...aaaand our Kickstarter has closed! 458 backers! 125 copies donated to charity! 4 custom handpainted signboards! மிக்க நன்றி! बहुत शुक्रिया! 🙏🙏🙏 Off to work on the book! We'll have it out in December! P.S. You can still late pledge for some of the basic rewards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

With 24 hours remaining, there is still time to back 📕 ‘India Street Lettering’ - A journey through typographic craft and culture from @matratype.bsky.social (published by @blaft.bsky.social). www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

With a few hours left, we're up to nearly 450 backers! We love the fact that there so many others out there who appreciate cool lettering and beautiful Indian signboards! Reserve your copy now!

40 hours to go before the campaign closes! The last month has been the most exciting, heart-warming ride watching the community’s support pour in 🥹 Reserve your copy of the book, and we’ll also send you a zine featuring lettering photos from Indian cemeteries. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

At the start of the campaign, a friend asked me what my favourite reward was and the answer was easy — donating a copy of the book to the @freelibsnet.bsky.social 📚 And now with our stretch goals met, @blaft.bsky.social is matching all donations ✌🏼 Let’s go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

NEW WRITING ✍🏼 An essay for BLAG ‪@blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy‬ where I unpack how, as a documentarian and type designer, I battle with the clichés about Indian sign painting — from not seeing the craft as a monolith to the dialogue between sign painting and printing. bl.ag/indian-sign-...

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4 days left! $20 gets you a hardcover copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING. $150 gets you a signed copy, a set of prints of Pooja’s street lettering photography (3 A4 size & 5 A5 size), 10 postcards, a set of 4 bookmarks, a sticker sheet, and a tote bag! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Everybody who pledged/pledged for a book now gets a cemetery zine as a bonus! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Its hard to appreciate something when it is online. 400 folks have backed the India Street Lettering book. If so many people had walked up to me to show their support, I’d be flabbergasted. So here I am saying THANK YOU to anyone who has supported the project 💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

We're up to 400 backers! 🤯 Come pre-order your copy, get a photozine of Indian cemetery lettering, add on some of Pooja's photo prints, maybe even pledge for a hand-painted sign by Mohanlal Sihani! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

I have to use sheer force of will to not go on ebay and buy every single miniature model that salespeople used to carry around for cold calls and meetings. The idea of being a neon salesman in the 1930s with a briefcase of tubes with onboard electricity is just such a wonderful different world.

🎉 CEMETERY ZINE UNLOCKED!!! 🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... A pledge of $20 now gets you a full colour hardcover copy of the book -- PLUS a zine of @matratype.bsky.social's favourite Indian gravestone lettering!

Just about $100 away! Help me and @blaft.bsky.social get there 🚀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...