David N Atkinson

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YouTube video by Salvage Operation South Bank Show - Sly & Robbie

RIP Sly Dunbar. Here's a lovely edition of the South Bank Show all about the wonderful Sly and Robbie. A few people were asking to see it, so I've uploaded it to YouTube and I'll leave it there until Monday. Hopefully it'll get a proper repeat soon.
youtu.be/M-cuOdr6DpQ

i newspaper: ‘Culture – Great love letters from Elizabeth the First to Oscar Wilde’

Seems unlikely

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Probably best not to try and staple the website

Linocut album cover artwork for @pgofton.bsky.social ‘Pagodas’ released under ‘The All Golden’ moniker.

It’s a collection of recordings and songs he made as a teenager and in his twenties and it’s remarkably good and one of my studio favourites when I’m printing….

Take care, Gary

Lewis Dunk

Good Morning, Captain

Cover of Unch issue 2, featuring a geometric illustration of a large number of white squares, looking as though they are moving in different directions, leaving stylised trails of black and coloured stripes behind them, everything outlined in heavy black strokes

It’s out! Get yourself a crisp new copy of Issue 2 of Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine, here ⬇️

unchcrosswords.com

Designed – and illustrated(!) – by yours truly

Yes

Got a sale on for the rest of January. Any digital release is pay what you like and got heavy discounts on a bunch of amazing records. Tell all your friends!

hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Happy birthday to Barbara Lynn. This is the coolest thing you'll see today. The full TV show is at youtu.be/-LQDXb3axJ4

This still feels very much like Spotify stealing artists’ money

… now Steven Heller’s Font of the Month in @ilovetypography.bsky.social

Thanks Emma!

A geometric illustration of five white squares, looking as though they are moving in different directions, leaving stylised trails of black and coloured stripes behind them, everything outlined in heavy black strokes

Very soon

*since a boundary change of extreme logical dubiousness

I am a constituent of that Tory MP.*
Nice to know she’s sorry for people with ‘livestock, young children and babies’, in that order 🧐

Kind of reminds me of the first verse in this version of I’m in the Mood by John Lee Hooker, who’s perhaps not primarily known for dropping gags into his songs

Gorgeous

Boots in the boot!

Extract from type specimen

Extract from type specimen: text set in Edgar regular

Extract from type specimen: text set in Edgar italic

This is how I discovered that type designer Tobias Frere-Jones and I have something in common: we both have a great-grandfather called Edgar
frerejones.com/families/edgar

Record player, on which sits and LP cover, the artwork features a processed monochrome photo of Pablo applied to what appears to be a reappropriated vintage matchbox label, modified to look like melodica packaging

#NowPlaying Augustus Pablo – El Rocker’s (Pressure Sounds, 2000) #vinyl
pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/el-roc...

Back cover listing: Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Ben Webster, Paul Desmond, Johnny Hodges, Clark Terry, Harry Edison, Oscar Peterson and Bob Brookmeyer

Tidy set of collaborators, it has to be said

Red and white LP cover on a record player

#NowPlaying Gerry Mulligan – Collaborations (Verve, c.1961)

Some superb type selections here 👇

Might rewatch Drive a Crooked Road. I remember being surprised at how good his performance was

A geometric illustration of a white square, apparently moving from bottom right to top left leaving a stylised trail of black and yellow stripes behind it, everything outlined in heavy black strokes

Soon

On closer inspection I may have misinterpreted where the holes reside on this Thing *sharpens pinking shears*