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Gerry Leonidas

@gerryleonidas

Professor of Typography. Career and views from a life of moderate otherness.

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Countdown to the first in-person typo event of… feelis like ever. See you in Munich in a couple of weeks at signs-of-the-times.net (Where I’ll be clueless about the fist-bump-to-hug continuum)

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Collections and archives as spaces of ideas and knowledge. Response to a prompt by Petra Černe Oven for a symposium at MAO, Ljubljana youtu.be/MoW-lsNsXQg

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It’s been a joy to be a part of this: a research-informed approach to typeface revivals, with application beyond its subject, and writing system: Michele Patanè and Riccardo Olocco’s Designing type revivals lazydog.eu/product/design…

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Working with a colleague in South Asia on a project on reframing local [typographic] history, we become annoyed at how much of the discourse on decolonisation sits behind expensive, western publishers’ subscription libraries 😡 Subversion through distribution 🎯

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Messed up algorithm: Rakuten Viber ads think a younger woman looking at me longingly will convince me to get a (cut-price) will. I honestly don’t know where to begin unpacking this.

Messed up algorithm: <a href="/Viber/">Rakuten Viber</a> ads think a younger woman looking at me longingly will convince me to get a (cut-price) will. I honestly don’t know where to begin unpacking this.
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Now that all the challenges the UK is facing are in hand, we can move on to significant matters like number plates for bicycles. Fair enough, since we already have safe, segregated urban and rural routes that enable all to ride to school/work/shopping and leave cars well alone.

Now that all the challenges the UK is facing are in hand, we can move on to significant matters like number plates for bicycles. Fair enough, since we already have safe, segregated urban and rural routes that enable all to ride to school/work/shopping and leave cars well alone.
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Have been waiting to get my hands on this. ISType was a perfect launch for the book (thank you Onur for organising, and sponsors for making it possible). Get it at niggli.ch/en/produkt/ara…

Have been waiting to get my hands on this. <a href="/ISType/">ISType</a>  was a perfect launch for the book (thank you Onur for organising, and sponsors for making it possible). Get it at niggli.ch/en/produkt/ara…
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If you got your PhD in the last seven years, are based outside the UK, and want to spend two years doing research here, this is a great opportunity (with a rapid deadline): thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/newton…

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We're holding an Open Morning next week in the Department. Come and talk to us if you're interested in Masters or PhDs in the best place to study typography, type design, and other designedly ways of handling texts. typography.network/2023/03/30/ma-…

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I've pretty much abandoned Twitter, so maybe a last post with a critique of the new logo, on a less annoying platform is the way to go: linkedin.com/posts/gerryleo…