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  1. There's something wrong when my assumption that feedback on drafts late on Sunday evening will be received (and responded to) is proven true
  2. Essential film education for international students in Reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/
  3. Alice, Dan, Francesca, and Jo in Design Week featurette: http://ow.ly/GaMM
  4. The domain may be unfamiliar, but establishing contexts, understanding limitations, and identifying options is a constant in design.
  5. The Shapes! The Shapes! http://ow.ly/i/7hj (get it here: http://ow.ly/BorZ )
  6. Tinkerers delight: Monotype demo day! If only the "look, a grey box" new machines were as fun to watch.
  7. Adobe and MS update fonts sort-of-silenty; I prefer Peter Bilak's approach: like fonts-as-services on a subscription basis http://ow.ly/yKSb
  8. Curious to see where Georg Seifert et al are taking Glyphs; return to a tool that focuses on design? http://schriftgestaltung.de/ And FOG5?
  9. @CastleType It hasn't made it online, as far as I know. Do CCA or Academy Art have libraries you can visit?
  10. So while I'm slavering away in Mexico they're having fun with Indian scripts http://ow.ly/i/5wX
  11. Type design to make you feel good about yourself: Designing a font to preserve a vanishing language: http://ow.ly/uw2p
  12. Food for Thought3 is Maxim Zhukov's 'Peculiarities of Cyrillic letterforms', Typography Papers 1 (1996)
  13. Type-Together workshop in Cieszyn, on the border of Silesia and the Czech Rep. http://ow.ly/tvU4 Info in Polish, but the workshop not.
  14. No 1 was Paul Stiff's "Design methods, cultural diversity, and the limits of designing" Information Design Journal 8/1 (1995)
  15. Food for Thought 2 is David Cabianca's "Why history? Why bother" DO 2007 http://bit.ly/2v4V6y
  16. Dara O Briain on the English: essential reading for new UK arrivals http://ow.ly/sjmJ
  17. Go now and play Cheese or Font – http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org
  18. Letterpress studio already been put to use. Now, that's a good way to spend your Welcome Week!
  19. @alicesavoie Each and every one of them, where they should be.
  20. @wasianed Austria, Canada, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Poland, Spain. And USA times five.