New on my Substack: robinkinross.substack.com/p/blank-page...

A note on the physical production of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social robinkinross.substack.com/p/fitzcarral...

Five books from Rab-Rab Press. New on my Substack: robinkinross.substack.com/profile/posts

Yes. Constitutions that protect individual rights can be trampled over (as now in the USA). But a constitution that entrenches human rights, and is then overridden, and is then challenged in the courts, is better than the UK's sovereignty of 10 Downing Street.

Some discussion of 'The alienation effect', seen also as an artefact robinkinross.substack.com/p/the-aliena...

Madurodam

Karel Martens Unbound at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam One of the most intelligent and beautiful design/art exhibitions I've ever seen. Until 26 October: inderdaad, onmisbaar!

NEW iverson.substack.com/p/tt-538-boo...

The life, times and work of William Gillies open.substack.com/pub/robinkin...

This shouldn't be an issue. Hampstead Heath has three ponds: women / men / mixed

Very good statement from #MSF in today’s Guardian

Well, like everyone, I've started a Substack: 'Books that lie open' It's here: robinkinross.substack.com

Karel Martens at the Stedelijk Musem, Amsterdam 12.07.2025 — 26.10.2025 www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitio...

If Trump & Musk have suffered an unprecedented number of judicial injunctions, it is because they have committed an unprecedented number of illegal actions. We don’t have rogue district judges, we have a rogue president violating the Constitution & breaking the law every day. Watch my statement:

“sneer of cold command”

The osprey season has officially kicked off at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve! Resident female osprey NC0, arrived back this afternoon for her 6th breeding season at Loch of the Lowes. 🦅

"strikingly loyal and straightforward": RIP Carol www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The debate between Max Bill and Jan Tschichold – its bibliography hyphenpress.co.uk/2025/02/24/b...

Barack Obama's rhetorical manner – very effective

Alison Watt's new paintings on display at John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, London W5 – to which they partly respond. Worth a long detour.

❤️ Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov raskin.house.gov/2025/2/raski...

Neal Ascherson: 'Old Mr Trump himself is visibly starting to “lose it”, and his wolfish team of courtiers are beginning to notice that. Just possibly, if it keeps the heid, Western democracy could emerge from this crisis with new strength.' www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

The Dutch architectural journal Oase 119 is just out: 'rationalism reviewed / rationalisme herzien' cover material is grey card, printed in black and white(!?) seems to use a 4 mm grid Karel Martens (with Aagje Martens) at his modular best

there are quite a few of them

The Dutch architectural journal Oase 119 is just out: 'rationalism reviewed / rationalisme herzien' cover material is grey card, printed in black and white(!?) seems to use a 4 mm grid Karel Martens (with Aagje Martens) at his modular best

Getting rid of a monarch isn't enough to make a republic. Neal Ascherson on good form: www.thenational.scot/politics/247...

A new book for typographers, type designers, and lettercarvers – and anyone interested in how to make things with your hands hyphenpress.co.uk/2024/12/07/l...

Book designer, food historian, immaculate and unpretentious cook, down to earth (she was from Yorkshire), teacher, friend www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

On a malaise in British book production, in the latest LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #glue #paper

'The unknown Alvar Aalto and the destiny of built form': Kenneth Frampton's subject last night at the RIBA in London His essential themes sharply expressed in a riveting talk: tectonics, materials, structure, joints; regionalism (Finland/Portugal); modernity And just past his 94th birthday!

Was there in Scheveningen yesterday to witness the arrival of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet.

Finally exited X

write to your MP www.sustainweb.org/news/sept24-... #riverford

☝️ Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “Fox” was first published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961)

In Scotland every building wants to be a castle (Gullane, East Lothian)

Remembering Nick Jacobs, editor and publisher hyphenpress.co.uk/2024/04/11/n... @carcanet.bsky.social