David N Atkinson @DNAtkinson@mastodon.social
Graphic designer and person.
Based in Lewes near Brighton, UK
Sparkling water is still water
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#amillion
Film podcast chooses an … interesting moment to do a James Woods special
Not sure I’m really a Takashi Miike sort of person but I was in a foul mood last night and I decided to watch Dead or Alive. The first 5 minutes is gleefully OTT and the last 5 minutes is like, pffft WHAT? Not family viewing, mind … Show more
Researching Russian fonts today. Kinda crazy that until a decade ago there was basically only one type foundry (ParaType) with c. 10 type designers in the whole country Show more
anyway, I made a new game: http://justtypestuff.com/
Seriously, do not set an 850-page book in a sans serif type.
And that’s particularly gratifying since the sole reason I never read her 2007 novel Darkmans was because of the typeface it’s set in.
Pleased that Nicola Barker’s won the Goldsmiths prize, not least because H(a)ppy is so typographically inventive.
While a new My Bloody Valentine record is always a cause for excitement, I don’t think Kevin Shields is really selling it here: Show more
Well, that’s one kind of introduction… https://mastodon.social/@qdot/99007301287868613
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Thinking I might take my film camera out this week and try and remember how to use it.
It’s been going four years and I’ve read seven (and bought three more: tbr) of the shortlisted titles – not a dud among them.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s announcement of the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, one of the UK’s most interesting lit prizes – for ‘fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’
Children should be taught the three ‘R’s: reading, righting and rhythmatic
did you know that a koala bear is not a bear, it is a legume
