Damian’s notes

(Via Dan Reynolds (@typeoff@typo.social))

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  From the Collection: The Women of Photo-Lettering - Letterform Archive Guest researcher Anne Galperin reveals unsung contributions to a major sourcebook of mid-twentieth-century type design.

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  @oldenoughtosay on Twitter Oxford is an architectural disaster because the colleges keep cannibalising each other. The University has, over a millennium, had a couple hundred colleges and halls. There are now 45. A thread.

(Via @klimtypefoundry on Twitter)

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  The Single Object: The typeface that told the stories of Chinese New Zealanders For decades it sat gathering dust in a Pukekohe garden shed. Now this set of heavy lead typeface has a fascinating story to tell about the history of Chinese New Zealanders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfj2uZaN5w When a one-tonne set of typeface arrived in New Zealand from Hong Kong in 19

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  @jessnevins on Twitter The accepted wisdom is that Hugo Gernsback invented sf fandom in the Science Fiction League & in the pages of AMAZING STORIES, and that (per Wikipedia) “a wide variety of Western modern organized fannish subcultures originated with science fiction fandom.” LIES! ALL LIES! 1/

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  A Portrait of a Direct Descendent of Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings For his Descendents series, Drew Gardner takes photographs of people done up to look like their famous ancestors. The Smithsonia

(Via Mat Osman on Twitter)

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  Women in Rock & Roll's First Wave

(Via kottke.org on Twitter)

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  The Lifespans of Ancient Civilizations As part of an examination of the potential collapse of our own civilization, Luke Kemp produced this graphic that shows the lifesp