Jono Lewarne
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cityeditionstudio.co.uk
Jono Lewarne
@cityeditionstudio.co.uk
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Graphic design / web development / creative coding / typography. Working across print, pixels & places. Developing sites in Astro, Wordpress & Shopify. Based at Spike Island in Bristol, UK since 2012. Teaching type at UWE too! www.cityeditionstudio.co.uk
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Hi and welcome to my new followers. I make websites, fun stuff with code, books (sometimes with code!) and site specific installations. Happy to have you along for the journey. I'm going to try to document my thinking and process more than I did on Twitter (😷). This is an accountability post...
It’s a beautiful thing. Using your hands, the sounds of the machines, the smell of the ink, the passing discussions with other people. Sensory overload in a good way
The beauty of letterpress is that no decisions are made before you start; margins, leading, font, placement of the first letter. It’s all up to you, system defaults don’t exist. I hope you catch the bug!
“the conflation of intelligence with statistical sciences, as well as the pseudo-autonomy of these technologies, should both be questioned”
“deep learning and machine learning are presented in a dematerialised light, flouting the burdensome ecosystem, both technical (data centres, mining of rare metals, etc.) and human, which is intrinsic to its operation.”
… These embedded mechanisms of discrimination are all the more insidiously powerful because they are invisible”
“Because they are mainly made up of content collected online, the datasets of deep learning carry and reinforce social bias, particularly in terms of gender representations, and representations of Black, indigenous and people of colour…
“Generally speaking, far from being a neutral technology operating apart from power structures (states, companies, etc.), deep learning extends and reinforces these structures.”

How unexpected…
Save Barista Pro survivor here. Definitely the machine to own if you want to get a great shot and then immediately pull another that’s absolutely undrinkable
Some of my favourites off the top of my head!
Web designers or graphic designers in general?
I assumed AI slop and subscriptions were incoming, how nice to be proved wrong!
Having a nice and chill time updating someone's Wordpress site. Everything is fine.
One of my former students does the typography for Wolf Alice. Anna Mills, look her up, her work is amazing
‘Solutions rarely arise except by contact with and sensual experience of the material.’ Anthony Froshaug, Typography & Texts
So much of my print practice involves working with paper to figure out mechanics and format. Almost always beginning with scraps of paper; torn folded, scribbled on. It's such a valuable part of my process. Think > test > adjust > make.
Women don't like the vehicle
Not sure if this is what you mean but the background I’m applying in the second video is not to the header bar with the backdrop blur, it’s to the text block beneath it
Bug update: Adding a background to the elements that aren't getting blurred by the backdrop-filter element almost fixes it, except for a weird area on the left side of the element where the blur still doesn't apply
Ligatures are related but different, but they’re also applied with OpenType. They’re used when the ‘correct’ kerning (it’s subjective after all) results in parts of letters overlapping so the designer creates a specific character that smoothly combines the letters into a single form
The purpose of my original post was more to highlight that tracking is the term most people are looking for when they’re describing the overall spacing of text. Kerning is some background magic if you’re working with high quality fonts