Santas can be radical too. youtu.be/2-XH_X40CbM?...

Suffolk, we are the fire starters!

New blog post: Meeting Bob Linney

Protest in rural Essex

Rebel nuns ✊

👏👏👏👏👏👏 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the Today programme this morning

This 👇

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Still angry

'Are you from a professional family, went to private school, have a postgraduate degree, and live in London with a load of cash in the bank? If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2

Heading out to catch some SPILL Festival today. Come along if you are in the area.

Ah, the two 2020s theft joke templates side by side.

Looks like I'm getting involved in another exhibition…

Hello Bluesky, it’s been a while… nigelball.co.uk/2025/10/11/c...

‘Restricted access to the benefit system for the sick and disabled is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice.’

‘Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power.’

‘We are making a film about Mark Fisher’ 👇

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

Maps. Record covers. This is a book that was clearly written for me!

Keen to know how UK SHAPE (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences) graduates deploy their skills? Launched today, this British Academy online resource provides a data-rich toolkit with an interactive dashboard. 2/2

UK higher education: 'much of the current discussion – and policymaking – is shaped by narrow metrics, which over-focus on graduate earnings. This approach overlooks many of the ways graduates contribute to society and distorts our understanding of the value of different subjects.' 1/2

Any academics out there with a USS pension and who are opposed to nuclear power should probably click on the link below… 👇

Psyche out digital screen x iPhone lens

New Graphic Commons write-up: A memory drift. An account of a recent dérive in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

Very proud of colleagues

This brilliant trailer by Why Not Associates for Channel 4’s dispatches was made in 2009. It’s still relevant, sadly.

If your industry can't survive without exploiting people, then you're in the wrong industry.

When you sign off a work email with ‘solidarity’. One of those weeks!

Skip typography

Living typography

The Wire is an important part of how I find out about new releases and artists I wouldn’t hear about any where else. And the ‘Wire Tapper’ CDs twice a year are always illuminating. If you don’t know The Wire, give it a go. If you have a lapsed subscription, resubscribe. Help keep it going. 👇

Current listens

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

1/2 2003 was a double—my first year teaching and my first visit to Tate Modern. I was blown away by Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project in the Turbine Hall on my first visit there, a student trip.

1/4 Anarcho-typography! I’ve just finished reading Boff Whalley’s (of Chumbawamba + @commonerschoir.bsky.social fame) book: ‘But—Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?’ Designed and typeset by Bracketpress, it’s a thing of anarchic typesetting and literary digressions, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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The Association of Autonomous Astronauts are back for their 30th anniversary.

Still a bit of time to catch this Linder exhibition at the Hayward in London. Closes 5 May.

100% this 👇

1/4 What started as an exploration into civic pride, maps, supergraphics and psychogeography by University of Suffolk Graphic Illustration student Sammi Wong, has now gone large on the side of R & W Paul’s redundant silo building on Ipswich’s waterfront.

1/3 A day after giving a lecture on agit-prop to first year graphic design students, it’s both heartening and scary to hear on Radio 4’s Today programme the lengths Ukrainian women are going to to resist Russian occupation, through the détournement of bank notes and flag burning…

I’m really enjoying Darren Raven’s daily design zine on Instagram. There’s a great write up of the project here:

Exploiting my dog for likes

Capitalism eats itself

New blog post: Writing on writing