nigelball.co.uk
designer, educator, writer | Ipswich, UK
nigelball.co.uk
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No I haven’t, thank you. That looks like a must see.
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5/5
Shame I’m halfway through reading Wolf Hall at the moment, as I’m itching to read this and write about it.
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4/5
… It’s playful and anarchic, inline with the Boff and the subtitle of “stories of disruption and digression”. …
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3/5
… it is sparking so many thoughts, and I haven’t even read the book yet.
Designed by bracketpress.co.uk, it’s a visually exciting object and great to see form being played with in such a way again. …
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2/5
… From Stanley Morrison’s Gollancz yellow covers to Futurist experiments in Zang Tumb Tumb, …
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Count me in. I’ll make space on my bookshelves’ Norfolk section now, if you can let me know the spine width.
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They were Tories, btw.
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It’s ridiculous they have all adopted similar blue colour palettes. It’s almost as if their political outlooks were merging into one and the same!
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Saw someone trying to park one in a hospital car park yesterday. They should be charged double the parking fee for the space they take up.
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(From Daniel Rachel’s Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story)
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Now I know! It was deliberate.
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Poor Letraset run down? Maybe! But on both albums? A deliberate act? But why, what could the reason possibly be?
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I’m a big fan of Kaweco Sport AL metal pens, small enough to carry around in trouser pockets. My gel pen Kaweco is never not with me. Can recommend Cult Pens for whatever you end up getting though: cultpens.com
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Thanks for the add @designhunter.bsky.social ✋
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I second that.
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Lego land
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4/4
Yes, things might not be moving fast enough for some, and the current UK administration is far from perfect in many many areas, but in relation to attitudes about the creative industries at least, this is better. Narratives matter!
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…I can’t understate how refreshing it is to have the creative industries and the arts spoken about so enthusiastically by a government minister.
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Yes, action may speak louder than words in the long run, but after 14 years of the Tories talking down creative education, actively dismantling it through their policies, and forcing their classist take on the arts on the nation…