As the delightful Ardizzone illustration posted yesterday proved to be so popular, here's a little three-part masterclass in technique, from his chapter on Line Drawing in 'A Handbook of Type and Illustration' by John Lewis (Faber & Faber, 1956).

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'Moonshot Sonnet' (1964) by Mary Ellen Solt: a concrete poem of fourteen five-part lines made from visual markers used by NASA during the first moon landing, as seen on photos in the New York Times

Wolfgang Schmidt. Schrift und Bild, 1963

Idly wondering if a tote bag emblazoned with the names of all the small presses that have folded in the last ten years (due to rising costs and declining sales) might shift a few units

Rare Andy Goldsworthy self-portrait found.

The space between two things; see extended alt text.

Platonic form.

The space between two things; see extended alt text.

Platonic form.

Very sorry to hear that Glen Baxter has died. He lived in John Ruskin Street when Coracle Press was in Camberwell, and often around. I first saw his work in the late 1970s and bought his books at Compendium; this battered NYC-published one from 1977 still going strong, great bw drawings and texts.

Light of the world. @dexinst.bsky.social

Light of the world. @dexinst.bsky.social

The BL (BL88 in this case), which took over from the single-decker RF on the 80/80A routes that i'd take from Sutton to Morden, and back... many many times.

German potato maps.

The BL (BL88 in this case), which took over from the single-decker RF on the 80/80A routes that i'd take from Sutton to Morden, and back... many many times.

The view from between stations

Michael Hampton has a new exhibition at Tension Fine Art, in Penge: "...posing as a backstreet firm with the status of a rag & bone trader, Michael Hampton aims to mock the grandiloquent titling of institutional exhibitions with corporate pretensions." www.tensionfineart.co.uk/current-exhi...

Michael Hampton has a new exhibition at Tension Fine Art, in Penge: "...posing as a backstreet firm with the status of a rag & bone trader, Michael Hampton aims to mock the grandiloquent titling of institutional exhibitions with corporate pretensions." www.tensionfineart.co.uk/current-exhi...

LYC www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The view from between stations

783. Je me souviens de l’incipit du roman de Raymond Queneau, Le dimanche de la vie : « Il ne se doutait pas que chaque fois qu’il passait devant sa boutique, elle le regardait, la commerçante, le soldat Brû. »

When an engraving has been pressed against the page facing it for 200 years, sometimes a ghost image appears. This is called 'offsetting'

About half past ten on Wednesday.

A303 saved. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A303 saved. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cubist surrealist.

TLALOC no. 7. Leeds: Location Press, 1965

spine exposed

A trip to Portsmouth and Brixton this week, and what a wonderful, joyous and glorious time. #cardiacs Here's an excellent review of Wednesday night: "Few bands hold a place in the heart like Cardiacs, and the world is a much richer place because of them." www.metaltalk.net/gig-review-c...

Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry, 1967

A trip to Portsmouth and Brixton this week, and what a wonderful, joyous and glorious time. #cardiacs Here's an excellent review of Wednesday night: "Few bands hold a place in the heart like Cardiacs, and the world is a much richer place because of them." www.metaltalk.net/gig-review-c...

Municipal guide cover of the day: this is an early Haringey guide produced by Burrows in around 1970. The spectacular cover appears to be pure abstraction unless you can see something I can’t! Artist uncredited.

New on Substack: Two books by John Morgan robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...

Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions

Dieter Roth Untitled (Puzzle), 1961

Model hut A/B; greyboard, paper, pencil; 2003.

Can't think of a better film about being a musician, all of the time... there's even a bit where Fred's coughing is music. Black and [off-]white version: youtu.be/XEVJUJz2AuY

engravedcircularscenescutintoemptyboxwood bobbinsthatmayprintsomecontinuallandscape colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p95.pdf

Can't think of a better film about being a musician, all of the time... there's even a bit where Fred's coughing is music. Black and [off-]white version: youtu.be/XEVJUJz2AuY

Bobbins.

Shower of st☆rs P✧ge from Galileo Galilei's, Sidereus nuncius, 1610 ✵

09.50 “I thought I heard the bell but the cuckoo was going so I wasn’t sure. We’ve got a cuckoo clock and the cuckoo was going”.