Shop questions enjoyed over the years:
‘Can I use any of these scissors on bones?’
‘What do you do for an actual job?’
‘Have you got anything I can keep children's teeth in?’
‘Do you sell capes?’
‘What is this place?’
‘Do you think I could put this clip through my ear piercing?'
22.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 77 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Shop feedback we have enjoyed over the years:
‘these erasers smell so good that my cat always nibbles them’
‘My dead mother would love this shop'
‘You have a fetish’
‘You only sell stationery!’
‘This place is hilarious’
‘I only came in because you're playing Wham’
‘It’s not Ryman is it’
22.01.2026 09:51 — 👍 114 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 0
Romanian Tongue Twister.
O babă bălană mănâncă o banană babană.
A blonde old lady eats a huge banana.
23.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Swedish Tongue Twister.
Stursk struts krubbade kruska på ett kvistfritt kvastskaft
Saucy ostrich munched boiled seeds on twigless broomstick
23.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Spanish Tongue Twister.
Como poco coco como, poco coco compro.
Since I don't eat many coconuts, I don't buy many coconuts.
23.01.2026 16:43 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finnish Tongue Twister:
Älä rääkkääkään kissaa. - Don't tease your cat.
23.01.2026 16:43 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3
we've started a project using original lead blocks of these... more to show you in the spring hopefully :-)
23.01.2026 16:38 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we scanned this from The Technique of Colour Printing by Lithography by Thos E. Griffiths
23.01.2026 10:28 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Friday!
Overprinting of three strengths of colours, 1940.
23.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 317 🔁 64 💬 2 📌 3
Podcast idea: people reading out ingredients and recipes from classic cookbooks, old and new.
23.01.2026 10:00 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
Someone on the bus is telling a friend on the phone how to make marmalade. It’s oddly relaxing.
23.01.2026 09:50 — 👍 57 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
An Instagram account of nothing but Japanese privacy glass.
instagram.com/kataitaglas.jp
22.01.2026 07:58 — 👍 258 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 1
👏👏
22.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re open 11-6
22.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shop questions enjoyed over the years:
‘Can I use any of these scissors on bones?’
‘What do you do for an actual job?’
‘Have you got anything I can keep children's teeth in?’
‘Do you sell capes?’
‘What is this place?’
‘Do you think I could put this clip through my ear piercing?'
22.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 77 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Shop feedback we have enjoyed over the years:
‘these erasers smell so good that my cat always nibbles them’
‘My dead mother would love this shop'
‘You have a fetish’
‘You only sell stationery!’
‘This place is hilarious’
‘I only came in because you're playing Wham’
‘It’s not Ryman is it’
22.01.2026 09:51 — 👍 114 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 0
That’s often how I find the most niche insta accounts
22.01.2026 09:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
pastaphernalia !
22.01.2026 08:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I think there are books around of the whole series. Maybe pricey tho!
22.01.2026 08:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@percivalfen.bsky.social here’s another one for you. Enjoy!
22.01.2026 07:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An Instagram account of nothing but Japanese privacy glass.
instagram.com/kataitaglas.jp
22.01.2026 07:58 — 👍 258 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 1
Same! I loved that bookshop exhibition they had
21.01.2026 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Leandro Erlich installation at Le Bon Marche. More info www.dezeen.com/2018/02/06/l...
21.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes it was an installation by Leandro Erlich a few years back. I love their food hall!
21.01.2026 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Alistair Hall’s graphic design studio in London: thoughtful, simple, beautiful, sustainable communication. 🏳️🌈
wemadethis.co.uk
Also 👉🏻
Book: londonstreetsigns.info
Monsters: monstersupplies.org
The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break, writing about the Beatles.
the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Illustrator and designer.
I love to draw and love teaching others how to reconnect with drawing.
Trying to make sense of the world and heritage through illustration.
My latest book: Drawing People 🌼
viktorijaillustration.com
20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Lettering Artist, Professional Logo Zhuzher, & NYT Best-selling Author. Co-founder of Studioworks—shaping the future of creative business!
studioworks.app
linktr.ee/jessicahische
The Isokon Gallery tells the remarkable story of the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in new urban living. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, on Saturdays and Sundays https://isokongallery.org/
Letterpress print & design studio in London, UK
www.linktr.ee/newnorthpress
Critic, educator, researcher, architect | Posting daily about architecture | Bartlett UCL PhD | also studied RMIT, University of Auckland | Founder of William Tozer Associates @williamtozerassoc.bsky.social
London Centre for Book Arts is an artist-run, open-access studio for all things books. A community of artists sharing resources, skills, and ideas.
Britannia Works, Dace Road, London E3 2NQ
www.londonbookarts.org
A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Wanderer in real, virtual & imagined landscapes. Creating books, articles, images, music and travel experiences. Neurodivergent, PhD in socialist heritage. linktr.ee/darmonrichter
Art 🎨 + Design ✍️ + Photos 📷
smart.bio/mymodernmet
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Easily distracted. OK with that.
