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.

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...

We're just a few hundred dollars away from meeting our stretch goal--a special edition Matratype Cemetery Lettering Zine for everyone who ordered a hardcover copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Were you eyeing the India Street Lettering book, but worried it was so colourful it might hurt your goth cred? Help us reach our stretch goal and you'll get Pooja Saxena's free photo zine showcasing cool lettering from tombstones in Indian cemeteries ⚰️💀⚰️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

I’ve got some fun photographs lined up for the cemetery zine, so I really hope that the campaign for INDIA STREET LETTERING reaches the $20,000 mark. @blaft.bsky.social will send a copy of the zine to everyone who has ordered the book! Let’s go 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

We’re in the last stretch, aren’t we? 10 days to go, and the campaign is about $1250 away from reaching our final stretch goal — a zine about cemetery lettering for everyone who has pre-ordered the book! Help @blaft.bsky.social and I cross the finish line 💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

INDIA STREET LETTERING is a "Community Pick" in this week's Kickstarter newsletter! Big thanks Mahesh! 🙏 Back the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

I for one would love to get the #Indian cemetery lettering #Zine so will be pushing this project up to it's end date. 😄 This project is getting 📈 so close to reaching it's final stretch goal - You still have; 10 days to back this excellent looking book and get hold of some great bonus items. 👇