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Book designer. Formally senior text designer @PenguinUKBooks. Lecturer in graphic design & '19 alumni @RCA writing. Grids & seams on display at all times

Hackney Wick, London
Joined June 2009
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3 years
RT @lbbdcouncil: Psst! There’s no better day than #InternationalWomensDay to share a little SNEAK PEAK of what we're working on to celebrat….
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3 years
twitter friends: after a small hiatus Im back into the fold ——— Ive also updated my website & would LOVE your feedback ——— all commentary allowed —— lemme know your thoughts x
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4 years
Lauren Price makes #tysonfury look like a pantomime dame. @TeamGB #Olympics2020 #Olympics #boxing #laurenprice.
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6 years
BOOKED. See you there. Type Tuesday: From Apfel to normcore via @BillettoUK
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6 years
RT @eyemagazine: Access all areas, The Letterform Archive needs our help to move to a new home in San Francisco. Cl….
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6 years
Near, Variations. A publication from the RCA writing programme. 11 writers, 11 designers. Design concept Tuomas Kortteinen. Available to buy now:
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6 years
soz Ive been a little distracted. Im back and my fmp for the writing programme has arrived. Meaningful Mutations, 8 essay-fictions on 8 album jackets. Part of @RCA summer show (Battersea Campus), opening this Saturday 12-6pm. Runs for a week. Come along.
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Claire Mason
7 years
My cat is evidently more anti valentines than I realised
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7 years
It took a few years to get here, but we it made it and it was worth it.
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7 years
Two books, typography designed at two completely different times for two publishers sitting side by side on the shelf in foyles.
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7 years
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7 years
"No singer lets us experience the voice as a thing with mass and weight and temperature—as something that resides in a body—quite like Aretha did." Great piece on the vocal virtues of Aretha.
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7 years
Turning it on its head. My most favoured #ArethaFranklin album cover art. Hey now hey (the other side of the sky), 1973. Cover art by Ken Cunningham, illustrator Jim Dunn and Aretha herself!
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7 years
On the hunt for the original architects for this building in #horsham West Sussex. Does anyone live near or know about this curious structure?
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7 years
What do we want more?.Break the temperature record (YAY / BOOOOO).OR Let it rain (YAY / BOOOOO).Seriously Im confused.
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7 years
Marcel Broodthaers, 1969.
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7 years
The word as image and the raucous white space. Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance), 1969. Artist’s book, offset lithograph on transparent paper. #Mallarme #poetry
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7 years
International designers! .Residency opportunity to work within the brilliant Rabbit Road Institute @RabbitsRdPress @oomkzine and the V&A archives.
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7 years
I honestly didn’t know that Southend hosts the longest pier in the world. But now I’m here and I do know and so I have to walk it.
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Claire Mason
7 years
Twitter buds! Im looking for a sans pairing for Malabar. Having trouble finding something that can stand up to its gutsy presence. Recs welcomed!
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