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Tonight’s literally hobbled together pizza.

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It looks nice outside but I can’t do anything. Glad to have a couple of new books.

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I’d never seen Good Will Hunting before. What kinda apples do you want? Or whatever.

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Thursday is usually pizza night here.

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The inevitable and disappointing conclusion of the Illinois flag redesign project. Poorly handled from start to finish. wgntv.com/news/illinoi...

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The Design Museum of Chicago is also publishing a catalog of the Letters Beyond Form exhibit and having a closing party. events.humanitix.com/letters-beyo...

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I'm taking part in a panel at the Design Museum of Chicago to discuss their Letters Beyond Form exhibition. Friday, March 21, 6pm. events.humanitix.com/artist-panel...

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Burn it all down. Here’s tonight’s pizza.

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This Saturday, the STA (back from the dead?) has organized a tour of the current Immigrant Printing exhibit at the Newberry Library. There are only a few spots. www.eventbrite.com/e/special-cu...

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New additions to the library. Bought for the W. F. Hall specimen (which has a wild wood face cut for a large Chicago meat packer) but the other two are also gems. The ATF booklet is particularly nice, very handsome early American modernism.

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Just testing Flashes with a rejected {. Why does this app exist?

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The typography section is not to be missed.

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Happy Malört Day to those who celebrate.

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My book How Comics Were Made is now on a significant sale—40% off ($39 plus shipping). The reason in part: it’s warehoused in Canada and tariffs may arrive soon. So I am motivated to get copies to you now. See the quoted post for a fraction of the glories inside! glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/h...

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I wonder if they include the trend of canceling webfont licenses and replacing them with six and seven figure annual fees.

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Just two more days left for vote to make Wallace Rice’s centennial flag the Illinois state flag. www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/... — photo from the Barnhart 1925 type specimen that for unknown reasons incorrectly labeled it as the IL state flag. Maybe exactly one hundred years too early?

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Yes, Google is evil. The easiest thing you can do is quit using Chrome. Looking at 65.8% of you.

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Took a year but I finally got my FAQ un-faqed. okaytype.com/faq If the annoying colors are annoying, you can press \ to shuffle them.

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Someone asked if I‘d considered drawing a serif version of Euchre. It hadn’t crossed my mind before. But I can’t stop sketching...

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Thanks to everyone who chipped in advice for dealing with public speaking anxiety. 🙏 My talk happened and it wasn’t a disaster. Key lessons were to aggressively block out anxious thoughts (played a lot of crosswords and slept with tv on) and to write a loose outline instead of a script.

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Found the prospectus for DaBoll’s magnum opus tucked between two books.

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Just learned the Caxton Club still meets in person to watch their zoom presentations and have lunch.

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Paul Gehl is giving a talk at the Newberry Library on February 19th about his recent book on Robert Hunter Middleton. There are also discounted copies of a few RHM books. caxtonclub.org/event-5903252

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You can’t eat design awards. You can only post about them to social media.

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Happy to hear any tips on overcoming anxiety about speaking in public (or in general). I haven’t tried since TypeCon DC when I so nervous I didn’t sleep for four days.

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I got roped into talking about some of my work. February 6th. Somewhere in Chicago. Sorry in advance. chicagographicdesign.club/programming/...

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Had to get a new iphone and was devastated to discover my go-to ebook reader, Marvin 3, was removed from the App Store. Any rex for good new reading apps?

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The ‘pretty unique “CRT TV”’ 🥱 The Hermann Zapf print 🤩 www.reddit.com/r/crt/commen...

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Some of the best writing* on the topic of typography can be found in the _Typography Papers_ published at The University of Reading within the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. They are now available to read online. typography.network/typographypa... *I might be biased.

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Congratulations to Lisa Huang and the whole team behind @wordsoftype.com on today's beta launch! This is already a great resource and is going to keep getting better. wiki.wordsoftype.com/

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Found a really great little design blog but it has no RSS feed and the only social is an old twitter account. 🙂‍↔️

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Revisiting this fantastic film of Rädisch cutting punches at Enschedé. Narrated by Matthew f'n Carter. Certainly a must watch for aspiring type designers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjZ...

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Public voting for the Illinois state flag redesign is open. The good news is you can vote for the original 1917 Wallace Rice Centennial design. www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/...

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