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Jon Abbott

@_jon_abbott

Designer and art director (formerly of @BarnbrookStudio). Designer of #COP21 hacked posters, #CruelDesigns, #DavidBowieIs book, etc.

 London
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Joined December 2012
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In response the @londonbiennale - Design in an Age of Crisis open call @_jon_abbott and I have created the Out of (Paper) Office as a community not-working space. An antidote to all the small trivial joys we miss out on whilst working from home. londondesignbiennale.com/bro…
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Image from Dean Brown (@_dean__brown_)
Image from Dean Brown (@_dean__brown_)
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Post lockdown, it's time to dance and visit museums again. Pleased to announce the opening of 'On Point' at @V_and_A charting the fascinating 100 year history of the @RADheadquarters. Exhibition Design in collaboration with @_jon_abbott. #RAD100 💃🕺
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“Banksy loves to mess about with them.” Margaret Calvert, typographer and graphic designer who co-designed the UK's road signage system, says she’s worked with Banksy before and she’s “flattered” he “takes the mickey out of what we do” #Newsnight

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My favourite image from the Calvert exhibition: how road sign legibility used to be tested by men sitting in a field.
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The legendary Margaret Calvert, designer of Britain’s road signs, sporting an appropriate bag today
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@MarcusRashford14 Jun 2020
An Open Letter to all MPs in Parliament... #maketheUturn Please retweet and tag your local MPs
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1 When the @V_and_A closed its doors to the public, the exhibition I worked on, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, also had to close early. Luckily, before we started WFH, I was able to snap several pics.
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Breakbeats for Labour
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New! Cassetteboy vs Boris Johnson
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Seaside: Photographed, opening Friday evening ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Guardian "From Victorian men in black to modern good-time girls, a tremendous history of seaside photographs reveals how Britons do love a day on the beach" Read the full article here: ow.ly/DZ9Q50ujcez
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Happy Birthday, Karl Marx! Born 5 May, 1818. Why not read Capital for yourself and make up your own mind? My new free video course available here: davidharvey.org/2019/01/live…
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Visit 'Ivan Kyncl: In the Minute' in the @V_and_A's Theatre and Performance Galleries. Free and open daily until 7th July. vam.ac.uk/event/OKGJ9xza/iva…
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@TheStage29 Mar 2019
A new exhibition at the @V_and_A documents the work of the acclaimed photographer Ivan Kyncl. The Stage finds out how a chance meeting with Harold Pinter and a friendship with RSC’s Terry Hands changed the face of UK theatre photography bit.ly/2FJN39N
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#OnThisDay 1971: "There's not a Baskerville, Bell Gothic or Times Roman anywhere in sight" Tomorrow's World visited a high tech composing room, where computer printing was afoot.

"It contains no less than seven and a quarter million characters"

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Opening today in the @V_and_A's Performance Galleries: Ivan Kyncl - In the Minute. This free display celebrates Kyncl's ability to capture the essence, atmosphere and emotion of a theatrical production in a single photograph. vam.ac.uk/event/OKGJ9xza/iva…
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Practise@practise9 Jan 2019
Little known fact: Roger Excoffon based the design of his 1953 cursive classic Mistral on Karl Marx’s handwriting
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Marx's Capital as a book reflects his concept of capital as value in motion. Marx viewed capital as a loosely coupled ecosystem of diverse parts powered by the search for profit or surplus value. davidharvey.org/reading-capi… teapaw.org/elonmusk/status/100775…
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@elonmusk15 Jun 2018
Replying to @elonmusk @AntVenom
Marx was a capitalist. He even wrote a book about it.
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As the #Royalwedding kicks off in London, #subvertisers hit the streets in protest against the parasitic British monarchy! #contestroyalty
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Happy 200th birthday Karl! theguardian.com/news/2018/ap…

Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out

The long read: The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create a better world.

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