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Happy to see the fine folks at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco celebrate 10 years of typographic awesomeness. To celebrate, they asked a number of designers to contribute a “1” to use in conjunction with their circular AAAAAAAAA logomark to signify a “10”.

Figured I'd pitch in with the most intuitive “1” in human history, based on a photo of my own hand.

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Issue #226 of the RESTRICTED FREQUENCY newsletter dropped a few days ago. In it we discuss 7 Rules for Artists.

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Inking is done.

Tones, touch-ups, and colors where they apply remain before moving onto lettering.

Lords help me.

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9 pages worth of inks to go.

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  • AFAC announces new grant round under the banner Ecologies of Culture

  • Europe uses Iran as pawn in transatlantic power play — Responsible Statecraft

  • Egypt's Nato-style Arab defense force proposal rejected at Doha summit — Middle East Eye... “According to the senior official, the main disagreement was over leadership: Saudi Arabia wanted to take command, while Egypt argued it was best placed given its long military experience.”

  • Qatar requests Israeli apology to resume Gaza mediation efforts — Axios... Imagine getting attacked by another country and the best thing you can do is ask for an apology.

  • Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission Finds — OHCHR... No shit?

  • Gaza death toll passes 60,000 — AP

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8:30 am. Garden kittens have stormed the house and laid claim to my bed, ruffling around playfully between the sheets. I haven't the heart or energy to chase them out. Fresh coffee in hand fails to disperse sleep from my eyes as a I plan the day ahead:

  • Finish inking TSG09p24 – 12 more pages to go on the final chapter of THE SOLAR GRID.

  • Shave face.

  • Look after dad.

Tomorrow I need to finish most of the branding work on PROJECT FUNNYCULT, run a couple errands, including a much-dreaded Ikea run. I'd really hoped to avoid Ikea upon the move to Cairo, which I hoped to avoid upon the move to Cairo, but I don’t have the time or patience to comb through the city’s endless shopping clusters for a couple of basics. A negligible betrayal only if it were my first since being here.

RESTRICTED FREQUENCY #225 goes out around midnight. Its title: Anything But The Art! 😱

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  • “Refugees alone, a tiny proportion of all immigrants to the U.S., produced $124 billion in net tax revenue between 2005 and 2019, Moorehead noted in her piece on Liberian refugees. As of January, the U.S. no longer resettles refugees; as of this fall, refugees living in the U.S. will no longer be eligible for Medicaid.” — Nathaniel Popkin

  • “You can’t Instagram your way into belonging; it requires choosing deliberate entanglement over endless optionality, again and again.” — Kai for DENSE DISCOVERY

  • “There is happy, and there is polite, and they look very different. Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level.” — Shani Zhang writes 21 Observations From People Watching for SKIN CONTACT

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Grants, residencies, and open calls for artists:

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