@mjskay.com As typeface designer of Altesse used by Palais de l’Élysée, I can tell you that a good copperplate should be programmed to have letters to connect contextuallly: 👀 Line 2. In Altesse Pro, I have created 1500 glyphs to make this happen. @jf.porchez.com typofonderie.com/fonts/altesse

Taking a moment to appreciate the Presidential Chair. Commissioned back in 2011 by @opwireland.bsky.social from John Lee, based in Co. Meath. She's a thing of beauty. #speirgorm #áras2025

I kept finding cló gaelach everywhere this weekend - a typewriter @nmireland.bsky.social , font on school signage, and blocks of type at the National Print Museum #gaeilge #clógaelach

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Campaigner and advocate Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has died at the age of 86.

My pal Sarah Hyndman kindly invited me to her "Seeing Senses" podcast, and encouraged me to really get excited and nerdy as I talk about type and making stuff. seeingsenses.substack.com/p/episode-09...

Fantastic piece referenced in the above: Kate Wagner (@katewagner.wehwalt.net), The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise (McMansion Hell; #skystorians). www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

Irish shopfronts, Celtic symbols and the tri-colour were among 26-year-old Anna Cassidy's inspirations for the Connolly campaign. jrnl.ie/6853384

Happy birthday Anthony Froshaug. The nonconforming typographer, graphic designer, and educator, recognized for his experimental bent in both teaching and practice, and as a small press founder, was born today in 1920.

A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

This on the dialects of Irish (there are far more than three, even now). An yep, the caol R is often the key. #speirgorm www.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...

Dessau celebrates the Bauhaus school www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Are your sheep always turning up late for work? Are they taking too long on their lunch break or simply struggling to get through the workload? Are they always just mucking about? Then you need some

James Mosley, 1935-2025. We will all miss him a lot, but his writings about type will remain.

Joe Caroff, West Side Story movie poster, United States, 1961⁠ ⁠ Caroff, designer of book covers, posters, and logos, including the “007” for the James Bond franchise, died on Sunday, just before his 104th birthday. Among his iconic creations was this poster often misattributed to Saul Bass.⁠

'What and who design is ‘for’ remains a live political issue. The new space should acknowledge that the ‘this’ and ‘you’ are complex matters.' In this week's piece, Az Crawford questions the presentation of 'good design' in the V&A East Storehouse:

Come to work with me as Research Fellow in the international team for our new project Graphic Design Histories for Creative Dissent! Deadline for applications is 7.9.25 jobs.brighton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded. If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.

*first year lecture, academic strides in* “right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION” *students wail, gnash teeth, vomit* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exeter, Galway, Queen’s, Birmingham, Warwick, Kent, and UKRI’s KTN… If anyone wondered where the same obsession with ‘modernising’ the crest, speaking in abstract nouns, and questionable colour schemes for these originated:

Paging @sorchao.bsky.social

Following on from my @irishtimes.com article on Sunday, this afternoon I joined @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social to speak about the history of devotion to the Sacred Heart and its lesser-known political aspects. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

wonder if decades of mocking media studies as a Mickey Mouse subject has anything to do with this at all

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

R.I.P. the genius who rhymed quickenin’ with strych’nine.

Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/

I’m back on the trail of this very modern Sacred Heart lamp, which I think was made in the Port Laoise area, because that’s where three of them have shown up. Anyone with leads, let me know!

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

My wife Sorcha is speaking later on this week in University of Limerick! Tour of Ardnacrusha included! She published a book on the subject previously - (www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/powe...)

I predict that this will be good enough to justify having to stop at Limerick Junction

I’ll be revisiting my work on the architecture and visual representation of the Shannon Scheme on Friday, at this 100 year anniversary colloquium in @unioflimerick.bsky.social. Tickets still available on Eventbrite, and it includes a tour of the power station!

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

🥁 Welcome INDIA STREET LETTERING, the book! 🥁 I’m working with @blaft.bsky.social to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cities into a 200-page hardcover full-colour book. Support the project on Kickstarter ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I promise it’ll be amazing!

TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them. www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”

Limerick Junction

Authoritarianism is weaponized abuse. It's meant to exhaust you, activate you, force you into a conservative position in which you don't fight and you ignore the day-to-day brutality and sacrifice people. Where we're going, you have to ground, see it all as important and everyone as essential.

Please keep attention on the struggle of working class families to insist that their family members, community members, and children be safe from terrorization and deportation at the hands of ICE. A thread of donation links to base-building immigrant rights organizations in LA:

The drawing room of Irish novelist, travel writer & salonnière, Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson (1776-1859) from her autobiography, printed in 1859 #WomenWriters

Culinary materials sit at the boundary of public & private spheres in a way many other subjects don’t: Cookbooks document the activities of our private worlds in a public way; recipe cards adapt public trends and return them to intimate, private contexts thisismold.com/process/cook...

He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

Explore the story of St. Brendan’s Hospital at Grangegorman 📍 🗓️ Lecture: Tues 27 May, 7–9pm 👤 Colm Murray on 60 yrs of architecture & memory 🗣️ Share your story: Workshops 31 May & 7 June, 2–4pm 🎟️ Free tickets: bit.ly/GrangegormanHistories #GrangegormanHistories

TU Dublin Graduate Exhibitions open Thursday 29 May 18:00 in East Quad Grangegorman, all welcome. Exhibitions continue 29 May-5June, 10-5, closed Sunday.

Too much going on @tudublin.bsky.social this evening to be posting! But an amaaaaaaazing graduate showcase this year! Catching breath now at the podcasting event in the TV studio #gradx #sosbeag