Poor Frank Raw

Why oh why do I carve lettering on stone, by hand? It's a fair question. In 2 minutes and 38 seconds I can answer that question: youtu.be/QRwrt_3MCp8 #lettering #pevsner #madebyhand

Spotted in the printing room @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Terracotta floor tile - Pigeon c. 14th-15th centuries CE Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux Now Musée d'Aquitaine #TilesOnTuesday

Chip Chip... Fraktur / Marble. #Lettercutting

I'm not having a funeral, I'll be giving my body to be dissected at a medical school. Here's a really good story on what happens (US based): www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment. Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters? geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...

"Hør du Rafn hvad jeg si ger dig, kanst du iche føre Runer med dig" Listen Raven, can you not bring the runes with you? Lines from the Song "Raven brings runes" youtu.be/x9ARv49nJ68?... #Lettercutting #Runes #YoungerFuthark

Nicholas Sloan – Half a century with hammer and chisel. Our next Letter Exchange lecture welcomes letter-cutter and graphic designer Nicholas Sloan, who will reflect on more than 50 years working with letters. #lettercutting #stonecarving #lettering #typography #lecture #london #uk #LetterExchange

Apparently this is real. So British music - all these bands will be on the playlist then? Black British musical groups - Wikipedia share.google/FxXhIGgz9Kzu... Don't want any of that degenerate music do we? Wikipedia share.google/pCwgfff98K4c...

Curious to know why this book contains a page at the end on which is printed the word EPISTOLA twenty-two times in three columns. In the philosophical disputations of the Dutch philosopher Adriaan Heereboord (Leiden, 1650). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social X.16.47.

Joni Mitchell is God. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQS...

Calligraphy door to my website — welcome to explore! I'm a type designer, fascinated with calligraphy, because calligraphy provides a deep knowledge of letterforms, their origin and future potential. #calligraphy #font #custom #design

In 1867 my g.g.grandfather was killed in an explosion at Ferndale colliery in S Wales. One of 178 men and boys killed. A hundred years later 116 children and 28 adults were killed by an unsafe waste tip in Aberfan. Sobering but important TV. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Pleasing to get proofs of book chapter soon to be published. Based on my PhD research via a talk I gave at the USTC conference a couple of years ago 💃

This will be of interest to some (though not, presumably the person who laid out the late pope's gravestone). A game to practice your kerning... www.reddit.com/r/kerning/s/...

"As above, so below" #Pebble #Lettercutting

I’d you’re shocked at the damage in France to an old town hall you’ll be horrified to hear what’s happened to the beautiful old buildings and heritage of the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans

Yes I am sadly predictable and if you have a birthday or a special occasion you won't be surprised to find my gift is the heaviest. Sue me. I don't care.

Finally finished for @skullsandsheets.bsky.social brilliant fundraising auction for domestic violence charities. A folk collision where a 1920s tray meets a 60s dress, a 50s tray cloth sewn by a stranger meets 40s doilies & napkins embroidered by my gran, her fake pearls & my own stitches + painting

A quick bookend for my sister's birthday.

To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?

Just FYI, no AI is involved in the design, planning, layout, carving and finishing of my hand carved #lettering. AI is an abomination, polluting the world of art and information. A pox on it.

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

Spending my evening with some 17th-century wills, which means encountering the archaic word "sperate," as in the opposite of "desperate." (Sperate debts are debts you hope to collect, whereas you have lost hope in desperate debts.)

🛟 100 shouts. 65 people helped. 12 lives saved. Congratulations to Brighton RNLI volunteer Chris Townley on his 100th lifeboat call-out! Chris joined with no boating experience and has since spent nearly 15 days at sea helping people in difficulty. A brilliant milestone. Thank you, Chris! ❤️

On this day 1605 Guy Fawkes began his journey to London. It would take him several days because his legs were made of old tights stuffed with newspapers.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Hand carved #lettering on Welsh slate from Berwyn quarry. An #ambigram by Scott Kim, with the word infinity reading both clockwise and anticlockwise. 30 x 30 x 2 cms. Appearing in the shop soon.

My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆

Torchlit Pompeii. A painted political campaign message on the facade of a building.

I write/edit for a living and this perspective even applies in my quite subjective field. Client: ‘AI writes well.’ Me: ‘No. It just writes better than you. That is not the same.’

Hi, you’re meant to be our advocacy group? This decision sucks. My books were stolen by AI companies, as were millions of books by other writers; it’s the biggest copyright theft in human history — there is no ethical AI when the technology itself is predicated on IP theft

Almost ready! While enjoying the glazing, I've been imagining making a dozen or two Gingerbread Alphabet Tiles for Christmas — for a group of #university people! Is it a nice idea? For those who can enjoy the idea of revival in all its nerdy glory! #christmas #corporate #edible #gift #commission

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is unusual. These two gravestones are in the shape of millstones and are in the churchyard of All Saints, #Hertford. Unsurprisingly they are for a #millwright, Robert Fincher and his wife Elizabeth.

Ten years have passed and I haven't changed my mind: I'm not having a funeral.

My blog posts are infrequent, and mercifully short. But here is the latest offering! The very best of Roman lettering - The memorial to the children of Sextus Pompeius Justus: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/blog/rome.html #lettering #rome #viaAppia

The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.

In the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Graphic designer: clear space on a document is important to rest the eye