A great pleasure! Spoke at the York Wayzgoose — about the ideas behind new type designs and about interpreting historical material. What a wonderful, action-packed, witty and serious event it was! #York #fonts #typography #lecture #history

Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a great honour and a nice surprise for me to be invited to speak at the York Wayzgoose! I look forward to attending all the lectures, taking part in hands-on activities, demonstrations, dinner, suppliers' fair... 3 days of pleasure! Early Goose tickets: www.thinicepress.org/wayzgoose-2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

"To fight against the shoddy design of those goods by which most of our fellow-men are surrounded becomes a moral duty." Nikolaus Pevsner.

Wow. Just wow.

Hey remember when golf courses in France were exempted from the hosepipe ban and French people started sneaking onto the courses at night and filling the holes with concrete.

Brynley Heaven@brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 2d ago

Badgers "are being drawn to the watered greens". Umm, watering golf courses in Suffolk?

Swears and non-swears in the shop, just added the expression we've all used... "Oh shit". www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.html#shit 10% of all sales go to SalivaryGlandCancer.uk

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

The shouty juvenile buzzard is back.

Poor Frank Raw@poorfrankraw.co.uk · 5d ago

Hand carved #lettering on Welsh slate from Berwyn quarry. An #ambigram by Scott Kim, with the word infinity reading both clockwise and anticlockwise. 30 x 30 x 2 cms. Appearing in the shop soon.

A #Roman tile marked with a child's footprints - they have really sunk their toes into the unfired clay here! There are also dog pawprints on the tile - a child & their beloved pet walking together, maybe, some 1700+ years ago... #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

It took six years, but at last I've given my website a revamp, and it's looking pretty. To mark the occasion, here's a new piece about the time an emperor gave the alphabet a revamp. Despite all his power and learning, it didn't work out. dannybate.com/2026/08/06/t...

The Emperor’s New Letters

When a Roman emperor updated the alphabet – and basically nobody listened to him. A common response to my profuse public pontifications about the history of the alphabet is ‘could we add new letter…

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An important reminder to a nation full of pious busybodies:

Hand carved #lettering on Welsh slate from Berwyn quarry. An #ambigram by Scott Kim, with the word infinity reading both clockwise and anticlockwise. 30 x 30 x 2 cms. Appearing in the shop soon.

A juvenile buzzard shouting its head off over the garden just now.

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

If you hold a prejudice against trans people, I question your judgement on all matters. Frankly, I question your intelligence. If you, as a transphobe, run a public institution, I question your fitness for office. This interview alone proves that to be transphobic, one must first park one's brain.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 6d ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

12 year old, cask strength (57.8°) #Lagavulin. Not available on prescription.

Friends… please can you share? I’m starting to put some art up for sale to pay for my louche year of painting (and grieving, let’s face it cos that’s what’s at the root of all this, I think) - and would love to find some nice homes for my art #artforsale #starvingartist #watercolour #bsnm #nature

Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons@gingertotty.bsky.social · last wk.

Back to scanning artwork. Some originals will be on sale, some prints, and I’m starting to curate so I can put together the much vaunted exhibition I keep threatening… These will be in the 2026 Clarkive sale. Prices in alt if you want to reserve (DM me)! #art #bsnm #artforsale #originalart #artist

Over 2/3 of the way to infinity... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ot2WR...

Infinity on slate

YouTube video by Frank Raw

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Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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Fonts! www.infonta.com

I am just over half way to 3 x infinity. This will be appearing in the shop in due course. Obvs. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop

Poor Frank Raw@poorfrankraw.co.uk · 2w ago

What's 3 times #infinity divided by 3?

Satisfying this time, phew 🌿🥳 #fonts #typespecimen #typography #infonta #design #veraevstafieva

Posters for the Suppliers' Fair have just arrived! I'm baking my Alphabet Tiles next week 🥳 #typography #english #history #heritage #interpretation #uk #design #York #Wayzgoose

What's 3 times #infinity divided by 3?

The York Wayzgoose is fast approaching! Next week, 6-8 August 2026. I'm going to give a lecture “Letters Old and New: Growing New Type Designs”. Also I'll do a live calligraphy demo with a broad flat brush, and take part in Suppliers’ Fair with my Alphabet Tiles and Letter Exchange materials ❤️

Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a great honour and a nice surprise for me to be invited to speak at the York Wayzgoose! I look forward to attending all the lectures, taking part in hands-on activities, demonstrations, dinner, suppliers' fair... 3 days of pleasure! Early Goose tickets: www.thinicepress.org/wayzgoose-2026

“Have you checked the copy for the Enterprise display ad?” “Didn’t need to, it’s the same every week” [one day later] “Oh”

Mrs Raw thanks everyone for the messages and good / healing / positive thoughts, but the surgeon cancelled her at 3pm :( Reconvene for another try on Monday. As you were.

Poor Frank Raw@poorfrankraw.co.uk · 2w ago

Today while Mrs Raw is having a shoulder replacement op I am mainly at the easel, listening to #JoniMitchell (currently Dog eat dog), waiting for txt updates.