We post when there is something worth saying. That averages out to about one piece a month. Mostly process notes, the occasional rant about kerning, and the closest thing we keep to a public sketchbook.
Process · 8 min read · May 2026
The first ten attempts shared a problem we couldn't name for almost a week. The eleventh fixed it by accident. A short account of the fourteen days between the bad version and the good one, and what Yaa said at lunch on day twelve that broke it open.
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Reading · 5 min read · April 2026
A short defence of design that doesn't try to be friction-free — and why the most-thumbed book in the studio happens to be the one with the smallest margins, the tightest leading, and an index that takes some learning.
Read the piece →Forty-six small presses in two rooms. We came home with a stack and three new friends to write to.
A defence of the unfashionable software we still set most of the studio's books in, and what we still wish it did differently.
A small thing we ended up loving — what the new mark looks like at three meters tall in flat enamel on stucco.
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