#london

z428@loma.ml

Amazing. I just recently read the story of that typeface being sunk there and considered it lost. The older I get, the more fascination comes from old-school printing and writing facilities and the idea of keeping information on paper, no matter how much effort it takes compared to digital means.


Karen Strickholm - 2024-05-11 07:13:31 GMT

Interesting!!"Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames"

#ArtsAndCrafts
#Books
#Printing
#London
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

Ben Phillips on X: "The way to explain London is this: this man called Count Binface, who really did change his legal name to Count Binface, and, as you can hopefully see, has a bin face, stood in the election for Mayor, and, when the results were announced, he got more votes than the far right did." / X

This is how to deal with the far right!
#london #election

https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1787027032385171897

mkwadee@diasp.eu

Which #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (as far as I can tell, no relation to a former parliamentary candidate, #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst candidate, #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”

(For the uninitiated, Ceefax was the BBC's former teletext service.)

#UK #Politics #England #London