Read our full statement on the future of the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow here: tinyurl.com/79ch8bvn 🧵 Main Entrance Glasgow School of Art, July 2009 no 2. Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna
Jake Tilson
@jaketilson.bsky.social
Artist, designer, writer. Cities, typography, food and bands. Japan, Venice, New York, London.
@taras-grescoe.com loved the night-sleeper map in this piece www.highspeed.blog/r/2227e61b?m...
Back-on-Track
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Many people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - 4.5 Migrants
YouTube video by Ian Kenny
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@theguardian.com why does my online subscribed issue issue seem to think I live in Australia? I keep on getting links to articles about Australia, it’s just so weird. 
Please sign this if you can. UK supermarkets throw away tons of perfectly edible, in date food and drink every day, they should be donating this to the needy. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... This insta account reveals the waste daily www.instagram.com/food_waste_i...
Petition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donation
Everyday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong, and that food that is safe to eat should not end up in bins...
petition.parliament.uk
And look at all that fabulous typography - the & ❤️
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 6d agoMarket Street, Wigan, 1968. Wiganers leave for their holidays as the mills close for two weeks in the summer.
The @vittles.bsky.social 451 Great Restaurants to Try in London - Google Map is a thing of beauty. I've spent the afternoon adding recommendations to my map so when in deepest Dalston or out in Hounslow I'll have somewhere new to try. Subscription needed for access - worth it for this alone.
Every time I upgrade my IOS on Mac tech I have to turn so much visual interference off!
Over 250,000 hectares of land has burnt across European Union, with 1254 fires detected since start of the year. As wildfires become more frequent, intense & complex, reliable monitoring, forecasting, cross-border data sharing & #EarlyWarnings are critical to protect lives, livelihoods & ecosystems.
This account pulls elements from Japanese signage, for tremendous colour and form. www.instagram.com/nodoca
In my studio, the current background-TV viewing is flipping between Greys Anatomy and Killing Eve - most confusing at times
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has just opened and we have 6 secrets from the new venue open.substack.com/pub/londonis...
6 Secrets of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Set up by 'the minor deity that looks after illustration'?
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Sadly Europe needs an equivalent service to California’s online wildfire map - extraordinarily detailed and updated constantly. We have friends who lost their studio in the Altadena fire, so I have experience of how accurate the system is. www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
A day spent under a bridge in Bermondsey. Haus Show Fest 6 stages, 3 days, about 80 bands!
Venice should take a tip from @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk a have the occasional fallow year - no tourists allowed
Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2w agoI seem to be everywhere.
One for Stewart Brand @stewartbrand.bsky.social
Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 2w agoThen and Now The Little Street, Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft (the home of Vermeer’s aunt). It was photographed (right) in 2017 See below: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
Here’s another one we scanned from 1920s France www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p... it’s for cross stitch
Lettering for Stitchers, Sweden (1973) Full alphabet we scanned here www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/l...
Describe yourself in three characters
Gabriella Nonino@gabriellanonino.com · 3w agoDescribe yourself in three characters.
