Marta Bernstein
@martabernstein.bsky.social
Milanese designer gone PNW. Creative director, type & typography educator. Researcher at Nebiolo History Project. Wayfinding, EGD, exhibit design. Politics. Cats. ENG/ITA
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November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I am ordering a copy right now!!
Announcing
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France.
#SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering
letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France.
#SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering
letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.
letterformarchive.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I am ordering a copy right now!!
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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three-text is a 3D font rendering and text layout library for #threejs - available now on github and npm github.com/countertype/...
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
three-text is a 3D font rendering and text layout library for #threejs - available now on github and npm github.com/countertype/...
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Memories of James Mosley and Michael Twyman /// The type community, and especially the type community at the University of Reading, lost two beloved figures in recent months in James Mosley and Michael Twyman. 🧵 1/3
#typography #UniversityofReading #UoR #inmemoriam
#typography #UniversityofReading #UoR #inmemoriam
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Memories of James Mosley and Michael Twyman /// The type community, and especially the type community at the University of Reading, lost two beloved figures in recent months in James Mosley and Michael Twyman. 🧵 1/3
#typography #UniversityofReading #UoR #inmemoriam
#typography #UniversityofReading #UoR #inmemoriam
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Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.
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For this reason, I frame reading too as a creative practice.
The difference between the page and the screen is that the act of reading itself is a creative process. You have to create the world being presented on the page in your mind. The screen hands it all to you.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For this reason, I frame reading too as a creative practice.
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It’s Matthew Carter’s typeface, Shelley (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27...), but like much Word Art it’s been artificially bolded.
But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)
But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It’s Matthew Carter’s typeface, Shelley (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27...), but like much Word Art it’s been artificially bolded.
But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)
But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)
Could be one for @fontsinuse.com
It took long enough but we finally have the first ever WordArt president
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Could be one for @fontsinuse.com
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James Mosley (1935–2025)
In memory of our departed librarian, scholar and teacher. By Riccardo Olocco.
On @fontstand.com fontstand.com/news/essays/...
In memory of our departed librarian, scholar and teacher. By Riccardo Olocco.
On @fontstand.com fontstand.com/news/essays/...
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
James Mosley (1935–2025)
In memory of our departed librarian, scholar and teacher. By Riccardo Olocco.
On @fontstand.com fontstand.com/news/essays/...
In memory of our departed librarian, scholar and teacher. By Riccardo Olocco.
On @fontstand.com fontstand.com/news/essays/...
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Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
The Big Dark is here, brace yourself 🌑🌚🌧️☁️🌧️☁️🌧️
"I’m afraid to report all that is about to be replaced by insufferable eternal darkness, which I expect to last sometime well into tenebrous infinitude."
This is the local report: theneedling.com/2019/09/02/s...
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Big Dark is here, brace yourself 🌑🌚🌧️☁️🌧️☁️🌧️
My feelings exactly
Sometimes I read the news and it makes me so angry I just have to go to sleep
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My feelings exactly
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
Portland is the best, but they should not be the one doing it.
Heretic Coffee in Portland, Oregon has announced that starting Nov 1st they will provide breakfast to those in the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November.
"we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee
#Pinks
"we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee
#Pinks
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Portland is the best, but they should not be the one doing it.
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"Eventually you have to stand for something, or somebody else will tell you where to stand, and if you'd rather not, they'll force you to stand there, and stand there you will.
And there you'll be, standing in a place somebody else chose for you. You and the nothing you built inside."
And there you'll be, standing in a place somebody else chose for you. You and the nothing you built inside."
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Eventually you have to stand for something, or somebody else will tell you where to stand, and if you'd rather not, they'll force you to stand there, and stand there you will.
And there you'll be, standing in a place somebody else chose for you. You and the nothing you built inside."
And there you'll be, standing in a place somebody else chose for you. You and the nothing you built inside."
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A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...
The Story of Skin & Bones
YouTube video by Mark Simonson
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October 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...
“McCrery Architects, the firm hired for the project, did not respond to a request for comment.” So embarrassing.
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“McCrery Architects, the firm hired for the project, did not respond to a request for comment.” So embarrassing.
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@ilpost.it molto felice della nuova interfaccia, soprattutto per i podcast. Ma il dark mode non funziona ovunque ancora :)
October 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@ilpost.it molto felice della nuova interfaccia, soprattutto per i podcast. Ma il dark mode non funziona ovunque ancora :)
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It's not only subjectivity, it's first and foremost responsibility. AI is technology of organized irresponsibility
One throughline in all these AI promises is eliminating subjectivity. We don’t have to trust people’s accounts of their own experiences, because we can trust a magic machine’s *estimates* of those experiences. let ChatGPT write your memoir, act as “synthetic” interview respondents, choose yr dates..
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It's not only subjectivity, it's first and foremost responsibility. AI is technology of organized irresponsibility
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The Univerisity of Reading quietly published a playlist of James Mosley’s lectures on the history of (Latin) letterforms to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(via typo.social/@TiroTypeworks) #typefacts
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(via typo.social/@TiroTypeworks) #typefacts
James Mosley's History of Letterforms - YouTube
James Mosley’s lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication over many years. They represent ...
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Univerisity of Reading quietly published a playlist of James Mosley’s lectures on the history of (Latin) letterforms to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(via typo.social/@TiroTypeworks) #typefacts
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(via typo.social/@TiroTypeworks) #typefacts
This is the smartest, wittiest, and f*ing hilarious documentary I’ve seen in a while. For free on YT and Vimeo, they said no to HBO/Netflix for a value-for-value model.
“Listers” by Owen Reiser. Two brothers dive into extreme birding. You’ll laugh.
vimeo.com/1121688619
“Listers” by Owen Reiser. Two brothers dive into extreme birding. You’ll laugh.
vimeo.com/1121688619
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
Two brothers learn about competitive birdwatching by becoming birdwatchers—spending a year living in a used minivan, traveling the country to compete in a…
vimeo.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is the smartest, wittiest, and f*ing hilarious documentary I’ve seen in a while. For free on YT and Vimeo, they said no to HBO/Netflix for a value-for-value model.
“Listers” by Owen Reiser. Two brothers dive into extreme birding. You’ll laugh.
vimeo.com/1121688619
“Listers” by Owen Reiser. Two brothers dive into extreme birding. You’ll laugh.
vimeo.com/1121688619
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The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.
October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.
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Peter Thiel recasts anxieties about technology and global governance as existential threats. Our essay of the week traces how Thiel’s apocalyptic worldview informs a far-right project hostile to solidarity and democracy.
By @laurabullard.bsky.social in @wired.com
By @laurabullard.bsky.social in @wired.com
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Peter Thiel recasts anxieties about technology and global governance as existential threats. Our essay of the week traces how Thiel’s apocalyptic worldview informs a far-right project hostile to solidarity and democracy.
By @laurabullard.bsky.social in @wired.com
By @laurabullard.bsky.social in @wired.com