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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 30/08/2026

Could Super Furry Animals be Wales’s greatest ever band? I’ve seen them twice this month - a Welsh language set at the Eisteddfod, and a flawless setlist tonight at Dublin. Both fantastic performances

Super Furry Animals, a night time shot of a band playing on a festival stage with a monochrome CGI backdrop

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 12/08/2026

I see Bruce Forsyth is doing the captions

A TV showing the news. The caption reads: LIVE Cornwall Cornwall LIVE

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 08/08/2026

Ah, Pembroke Dock ferry terminal. I think this must be the inspiration for Severance

A dated kitchen serving area, long since disused, with an empty display cabinet and a cream counter top. There is a green carpet. I say green, but it’s the colour they use for cigarette packets

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 01/08/2026

Anyway I am at the eisteddfod ready for Super Furry Animals

A festival site with a large covered stage. Many people are sat on the yellow grass.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 18/07/2026

Hello Jackie, you look nice

A selfie of me standing in front of a detached suburban house (the house from Friday Night Dinner)

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 18/07/2026

Is it a good likeness? Well, it’s a little bit funny

A mural of Elton John in full Watford kit, sitting on a football. In front of the murals are some turnstile entrances (Vicarage Road, Watford)

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 04/07/2026

I am in Aberystwyth, which is one of my favourite places in the world, but typographically difficult to space

Aberystwyth promenade. A shingle beach and the sea to the left, a row of elegant town houses in the middle distance, and a hill in the distance

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 29/06/2026

Saw The Cure tonight. They were fab.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 13/06/2026

Might add a little postscript to my blog post series on Electronic Shelf Labels. I bought a four-colour one from AliExpress and managed to reverse engineer the image format

Me holding an Electronic Shelf Label in front of my laptop screen. Both the screen preview and the shelf label are displaying a picture of me in a coffee shop.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 13/06/2026

Nice! My 4-colour one arrived today and have figured out the image format

A picture of me holding up an Electronic Shelf Label in front of my laptop screen. Both the screen preview and the label say ‘Hello’ in various colours

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 11/06/2026

Get cracking on the Sean Connery jokes now, folks

A screenshot of the rear of a South African footballer whose surname on his shirt reads ‘Sithole’

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 09/05/2026

“Let’s start with the name. Paul McCartney literally means Paul, son of Cartney”

An extract from a news article. “Who is Rhun ap Iorwerth? Let’s start with the name. Rhun ap Iorwerth literally means Rhun, son of Iorwerth - Iorwerth being a Welsh form of Edward.”

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 02/05/2026

So I’ve made another font, 22 years after I last released one. Very proud of this one. I’m hoping to release it in the summer - all depends on admin shenanigans though. But watch this space.

A typeface specimen. The name, Sooker, runs down the right hand side. On the left, the seven different weights, from Light to Black.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 29/03/2026

Absolutely loved Copenhagen. Flawless public transport, clean, chilled and relaxed vibe. Did my 50th parkrun too!

The iconic Little Mermaid statue. A statue of a little mermaid perched on a rock.

The entrance to Tivoli Gardens. A high ornate arch lit up with lights around the edges. A large daffodil sculpture hangs from the arch

Nyhavn. A row of colourful buildings alongside the edge of a port.

A selfie of me at a beach in front of a sign that reads ‘parkrun Amager Strandpark’

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 26/02/2026

Dusted off an old typeface experiment of mine, a horizontal contrast italic serif. Tidying it up and trying out a few uppercase letters. I'm starting to love it. It's weird but has the familiarity of old italics, so is surprisingly readable #typography

Some text set in a horizontal contrast italic serif typeface

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 21/02/2026

Did Teifi Marshes parkrun this morning and it was lovely

In a cafe with an americano and a pack of Welsh cakes resting on a wooden table next to a big glass window and the countryside outside

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 13/02/2026

I can’t believe these figure skaters are doing their Wordles at the same time, no wonder they’re all falling over

A still of the figure skating scores on a TV screen. It looks like a Wordle row.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 13/02/2026

Football commentators at BBC Winter Olympics planning meetings

Alan Partridge sat at a restaurant table talking to someone off-camera (Tony Hayers of course). The caption reads "Can I just shock you? I like curling)

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 10/02/2026

Maybe the Milano Cortina logo was designed by a Metallica fan

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 09/10/2025

Going to witness some real life Cymru Connecting

A selfie of me in front of a golden bridge. In the distance is an arena with an illuminated display advertising Elis James and John Robins

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 07/10/2025

Forgot it was Cardiff v Newport tonight

A group of excitable folk marching along a wide city centre street in the middle distance

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 01/10/2025

Old enough to remember this

A screengrab of a 1980s Australian TV programme. A group of medics operating on a patient in a dark operating theatre. Some large overlaid text reads: The Young Doctors

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 29/09/2025

Gwych! Nice! The Wikipedia page for Patagonian Welsh is trending on Hacker News

A partial screengrab of the Hacker News website. Patagonian Welsh has risen to number 21 on the list on the home page

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 22/09/2025

Disappointed that 90% of my official half marathon photos are of me struggling to turn off Strava

A picture of me in running gear fiddling with my Apple Watch

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 21/09/2025

Did the Belfast Half Marathon today and achieved my goal of running it all the way. Woohoo!

A selfie of me gurning like an idiot. Behind me in the middle distance is the finish line of a half marathon. There are flags and barriers and a few other runners have crossed the line too.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 11/09/2025

Tenuous Taskmaster series 20 connection: my font was used in the opening titles of Sanjeev Bhaskar’s sitcom

A picture of a street corner in India. Hovering in the sky are the words “Sanjeev Bhaskar” in a frankly wonderful font

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 08/09/2025

I was waiting for the NYT Connections shade, and my goodness it did not disappoint

A still from the Connecting Wall round of Only Connect. In the four by four grid we can see (among other words) Vertex, Tiles, Strands, Mini… and Connections

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 04/09/2025

I contributed a little bug fix to Amiberry to enable me to read Amiga floppy disks on my Mac and now I’m going through my old magazine cover disk collection running software from 1990

An Apple MacBook on a cluttered desk. It is running an Amiga emulator in full screen - the familiar Amiga Workbench OS is visible.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 30/08/2025

At Cardiff City, where the pie of the month is “Classic” (presumably horse)

A food menu screen at a kiosk where there is a picture of the Pie of the Month, labelled “Classic”

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 20/08/2025

My pips remain stubbornly off-screen so I’m going to have to buy a bigger phone and send NYT the bill

A screenshot of the New York Times Pips game. Three dominoes are mostly off-screen

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 05/08/2025

Amazing how such a trivial thing can make you miss a place so much. For me it’s the clanking of the flagpoles on the Millennium Walkway in Cardiff

A paved pathway with the Principality Stadium on the left and the River Taff on the right

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 31/07/2025

Small detour through Mynachlogddu today

A standing stone with a plaque in front. It’s a bluestone from this area of the Preseli hills. In the distance is Foel Drygarn, a hill fort.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 28/07/2025

We left Cardiff two years ago today. I’ve come back briefly to visit all my favourite places and I miss it dreadfully

Cardiff Bay. A building on a small pier juts out from the left in the midground. Penarth headland is visible in the distance.

The entrance to St Fagans Castle. An imposing but plain façade, surrounded by an archway in front.

Cardiff Bay Barrage. A set of levers designed to lift up the road below and let boats pass through into the bay.

Sully beach. A sweep of stony foreshore, with Hayes Point in the distance.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 18/07/2025

I can’t believe that, after two decades of extreme temperatures in my mum’s attic, that my original transparent blue iMac still works

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 10/07/2025

Just popped in to promote my new album. “Unbelievably bleak” - Mojo (2 stars)

Me, wearing a BBC lanyard, standing in front of a BBC 6 Music hoarding

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 06/07/2025

My typeface being all big and that on a chain of Spanish cash & carry stores. This is very surreal and I need to go back to Spain to see it for myself

The entrance of a Comerco cash and carry as shot from above.

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 03/07/2025

I suspect we’re missing a comma here, but this is in Magaluf so maybe not

A picture of a cartoon cowboy mounted on a brick wall. There is a speech bubble which reads: Try to enter foreigner!!!

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 02/07/2025

Just minding my own business in Peguera, Mallorca, when I noticed the font I designed in the logo of a chain of local supermarkets

A smiling buffoon in front of a small supermarket shop front. The orange and white sign reads: Supermarket Coaliment

A supermarket shop front sign which reads: Supermarket Coaliment - compra saludable

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 14/06/2025

Although the ones in Belfast Forestside work so that’s good

A screen from the M&S self-checkout, partially in Welsh

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 13/06/2025

Lisburn 10K on Wednesday, hope I can make it round in one piece

A race number for the 2025 Lisburn 10K (a large number 10496 with Andrew printed below)

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 10/06/2025

Went to the football - NI v Iceland

A football match in progress. View from behind and slightly to the left of the Iceland goal

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 31/05/2025

Went for a walk in Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park for the first time in ages and came across our old friend the bum tree

An overgrown patch of parkland. In the midground is a tree trunk which looks like someone standing with their back to the camera with bum on display

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 26/05/2025

This is probably the last time I’ll go on about it but I’ve finally finished writing my four-part opus on getting a small e-ink label to display bin days. andrewgraham.dev/blog/electro...

An Electronic Shelf Label displaying the next waste collections for refuse, garden waste and recycling

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Andrew Graham @andrewgraham.dev · 22/05/2025

Apparently 1 person noticed me on LinkedIn

A screengrab of the TV show Bargain Hunt, in which a couple, clad in red boiler suits are celebrating a profit of £2

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