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28-30/06/2018 Great souvenir from Type Life Events: Lecture at the @mudaclausanne museum with Florian Hardwig @fonts.in.use, the Type Life 3 magazine & the workshop 🔥 all organized by @swisstypefaces & @ligature.ch. Thanks again for everything ❤️🔥
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This Instagram picture that made me think I should attempt to employ some abstract deconstruction of my typographic forms. There innovation to be had from the unpredictability of physical replication. Perhaps stitching any typographic outcomes with a machine embroider or by hand could be interesting. 

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