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(exhibition) Margaret Calvert (design museum)

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London’s Design Museum has an exhibition of the work of typographer, Margaret Calvert. You can read about the exhibition, here

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/23/doyenne-of-design-how-margaret-calvert

Margaret Calvert, with Jock Kinneir, designed the typeface for motorway signage and also the the sign system for Britain’s railway network. This has been recently digitised across a range of weights and sizes.

If you are interested in the acceleration effects on design for the modern world, begin here

https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/97902068285/the-machine-ensemblewhat-is-that

(music film) End of Summer (mubi)

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Mubi are streaming Jóhann Jóhannsson’s End of Summer (2014). Frozen wastes, sounds and super-8; Terrific.

https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/135441305185/the-frozen-wastes-sublime-in-ambient-drone
https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/135441305185/the-frozen-wastes-sublime-in-ambient-drone
https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/170753687280/the-miners-hymns
https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/170753687280/the-miners-hymns

(university of TV) Documentaries to watch (2020)

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The Romantics and Us (Simon Schama) BBC2TV 2020

The Age of the Image (James Fox) BBC4TV 2020

The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis) BBC 2002

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis) BBC 2011

How Long is a Piece of String (Alan Davies) BBC 2009

and

almost anything presented by David Attenborough, especially

Empire of the Ants (David Attenborough) BBC 2017

https://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/165652776845/a-short-list-of-documentary-films/amp