Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured:
when read across the rows – a surreal poem
when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane
Robin Kinross
Robin Kinross
‘Henry Lanley and his wife, Katherine, will be forever remembered by typographical enthusiasts for having bought Caxton’s indulgence on 13 December 1476. With any luck they’ve made it out of purgatory by now.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the English printing press.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
and Sheila Jordan too
On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK
robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...
the truth about Miles
a pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays
Memories of typography at Reading University, 1970s
hyphenpress.co.uk/typography_r...
Max Roach
Gustav Leonhardt
Anthony Braxton
András Schiff
Lee Konitz
Frans Bruggen
Betty Carter
Christian Zacharias
Marilyn Crispell
Christoph Prégardien
Richard Carter is, among other things, an expert on Wardell Gray
www.allaboutjazz.com/discovering-...
