iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 30/07/2026

I’ve somehow become only the 7th best player of a game I created

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 08/07/2026

Shakespeare couldn’t even fathom a sentence like this

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 24/05/2026

Look at this absolute unit

A massive wedge-shaped railway snowplough painted deep red sits inside a historic engine shed beside a small blue steam locomotive. The side of the plough is marked ‘N.E.R. Snowplough No.18 Bishop-Auckland,’ with sunlight streaming through tall arched windows onto the stone walls and concrete platform.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/05/2026

My first ACE graded card - super nice touch how they “extend” the card art in their grading slip - I wasn't a huge fan of Metagross until I got a hundo one in Pokémon Go, now I really like the design - especially with this super fun snow scene 🌨️

An ACE graded Pokemon card of two Metagross moving snow in a snowstorm

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 14/05/2026

These are all the same person

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 08/05/2026

This film is even more miraculous when you learn that 20 years before acting together again they were together for five years and have a child

The film poster for the movie the Taste of Things

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/04/2026

Doing our part for the local little library (before & after)

Totally full after we dropped off dozens of books

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 16/04/2026

Some of my friends on Pokemon Go are next level

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 12/03/2026

I’m so happy with where I’ve gotten my phone’s home screen

Two widgets: Overcast and a poetry a day widget I vibe coded and Signal - that’s it

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 05/03/2026

The updated edition - OUT NOW

“How Not to Build a Car” by Adrian Newey F1 Formula 1 car designer

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 21/02/2026

Rouen is a typographic feast

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/02/2026

How you think your performance review will go vs. how it actually goes

Jean-Luc Picard in that blue uniform from the episode Tapestry

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 11/02/2026

At this AI thing and everyone is dressed like Joaquin Phoenix in Her

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/01/2026

Share a television show that raised you:

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 14/01/2026

compare to this (which is much better kerned than what they've done): fairly certain it's Helvetica Now, which they also use on their site

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 09/01/2026

My entire friend group right now

Cousin Greg from Succession saying “have you ever watched The Traitors?”

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 07/01/2026

Ribblehead is always a good idea

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 05/01/2026

Lunch at St. John Bread & Wine today 👌

A white plate holds a square piece of chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and a yellow square. A white cup with a saucer and a spoon sits behind the plate. The background is a wooden table.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 04/01/2026

Absolutely insane to see this stuff in a museum

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 03/01/2026

The last Prime Minister to actually stand up to the United States:

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 02/01/2026

Snaps from our Dorset trip, including Kingston Lacy

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 24/12/2025

Santa’s been 🧑‍🎄

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/12/2025

Nothing could be more true 🥐

A framed print that’s says “times demand a fortifying croissant!”

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 29/11/2025

Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 28/11/2025

Big believer in branding trips

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 23/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you’re from (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I remember the audible gasps in the theater when it got to this part)

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 31/10/2025

How parents take the edge off

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 24/10/2025

Our daughter is probably the only 4 year old in the world who has her own typeface

A computer with our daughter writing “holiday” in a typeface of her own handwriting.

“The dog is sat in his basket” written in a typeface of her own handwriting.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 22/10/2025

This hits me right in the feels. I’m old enough to remember when Framer WAS a “true design tool.” Whoever wrote this was probably a teenager when we were out here writing CoffeeScript. Good times. Simpler times.

A screenshot of an email from Framer that says “turning Framer into a true design tool, not just a visual site builder.”

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/10/2025

Robbery at the Louvre? Anyone have eyes on these suspects?

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 11/10/2025

Surely this is in contention for greatest single line of a song ever written

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 08/10/2025

I’m having the most bizarre interactions with this ghost AI

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 04/10/2025

It’s getting so hard to read the TLDR newsletter. Like, what is this?

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 01/10/2025

Sigur Rós with the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/09/2025

Yah, Fenan Klein Afrika. So so good! And right across from OT301. Super jealous you’re in the dam. Now that @helloiamrob.co.uk is soon to be the longest serving Roo, maybe he can swing taking the design team back with some alumni and relive this masterpiece

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 28/08/2025

Any place with a Anthony Bourdain book on the shelf is alright with me

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