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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 2h

It’s so much fun to use!

A spread from a book that uses ‘Q Project’, a layered typeface system, in two colours for the dual language chapter titles of the book.

A cover a book that uses ‘Q Project’, a layered typeface system, in two colours for the title of the book.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Thoughts and prayers for my inbox on today, this @bandcamp.com Friday of Fridays. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌊📥

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the famous woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, adapted to make a meme where the wave represents Bandcamp emails and the people rowing the small boat that the wave will hit representing my inbox today on Bandcamp Friday.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Low Tech Magazine, The Compressed Edition by Kris De Decker. Taken a while but I’ve really enjoyed reading this tome over the summer. It’s had a massive impact on my thinking and day to day live, hopefully lasting impacts too!

A book, Low Tech Magazine, The Compressed Edition by Kris De Decker, photographed on a wooden table

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Great so far. Only hiccup is user error. All my music is on an old hackintosh at my studio but I’m running Navidrome from a new Mac mini at home, using syncthing between the two. Once I iron out those creases it’ll be great. Enjoying play:Sub as the phone app so far too

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Recently hooked it all up to Navidrome too!

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 21/08/2026

On a more positive note, I finally got round to setting up Navidrome to serve my music collection and it is FUCKING MAGNIFICENT. I used to use CloudBeats app hooked up to my iTunes library on my Dropbox, which was ok but had some big issues that Navidrome has cleared up beautifully. Wooooooooooooop!

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 21/08/2026

...and focus on the really boring stuff, completely ignore all of the creativity and work by all the various talented local creatives who were involved and give them no mention or credit whatsoever. They wouldn't do that would they? They wouldn't focus on the drains and new bike racks, would they?

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Along with Studio Mothership I spent a year working on an amazing public art project in Bristol. The resulting outcome, tonnes of bespoke fabricated corten steel and custom ceramic tiles, was installed recently. The Bristol Post ran a story on the project. I hope they don't do what they always do...

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 17/08/2026

AI illustration telling you everything you need to know there

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 11/08/2026

The good folk of Belgium sort of did this for their favourite cyclist, except small, bronze and in a weird little fenced in pen

A bronze statue of ex pro cyclist Tom Boonen’s legs at the top of the Taaienberg in Belgium

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes. This is amazing, such a rich account of an insane period of music and social history in NYC. My reading is back up to speed after the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France ate up my reading time

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, a book by Will Hermes, photographed on some dry looking grass. The cover features a detailed black and white cartoon style illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty with caricatures of important New York musicians who feature in the books timeline of 1973 to 1977

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Yes. I’m going to hunt out his other books. Perfect to jump into when you’ve got a couple minutes to kill and don’t want to doom scroll

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Really ripping off @maxleonard.bsky.social now! The Long Deep by Des Hannigan. Lovely little book, beautifully written about lots of little hard to find spots in Cornwall, some I knew and a lot I didn’t. Loved that a lot of the stories are from the early 80s when I was growing up there

The Long Deep, a book by Des Hannigan, photographed on a sandy beach. The cover has a monochrome illustration of fish swimming drawn by Aegean artist Alexander Reichardt

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 26/07/2026

They’re in witness protection

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 07/07/2026

What is a designer by Normal Potter. Rereading this (for the 3rd time I think) after loving it as a design student. Essential reading for anyone interested in developing a healthy mindset towards design of any kind. Interesting that he mentions the last book I read a lot, which I didn’t spot before

What is a designer by Norman Potter, on a table outdoors

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (forgot to take a pic of the cover). An interesting read. Some of the ideas have aged terribly while others are more pertinent than Illich could ever have foreseen!

The first page of a library book, Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich, showing all the stamps from its loan history dating back to the mid 70s

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 03/06/2026

I’m going to get this after reading your newsletter. Sounds great

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 02/06/2026

Do the bastards not let you change the keyboard shortcut from the default now?

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 26/05/2026

Above=around. This specifically, with further links in the article. Just made aware of this today and I’m really disappointed khevans.com/2025/08/21/k...

khevans.com

Ethics of Kagi

Spoiler: Kagi doesn’t seem very ethical

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 26/05/2026

Can we learn more about Kagi’s ethics? Some worrying links above that have got me looking at alternatives…

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Exactly. Imagine a world where Amazon doesn’t appear in your search results. It’s here, nature is healing

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 25/05/2026

I’ve been using it on iOS, it’s pretty good!

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 24/05/2026

@kagi.com is worth a few bucks a month just for the lens feature alone

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 22/05/2026

Same. No going back, especially now!

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 19/05/2026

[Boy Better Know voice] too many errors, too many many many errors, no more errors will be reported to the console for this context.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 15/05/2026

If you’re not opening the door and saying “what’s kraken dog?” every time then you have to return that knocker

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 14/05/2026

A key aspect of the typesetting is varying width paragraphs in the dual languages (English/Norske) that make each paragraph the same amount of lines, making them equals. This reflects the ideal of giving and taking space when you need to live alongside others in the same community.

A close up detail shot of the book's text, which is in two languages, English and Norske, running parallel on the page. Each paragraph is the same amount of lines, the width of each paragraph differs down the page in order to make sure they are the same amount of lines in each language.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 14/05/2026

The rear cover unfolds to reveal a map, visualising the journey each interviewee took to get to Svalbard along with immigration statistics and information.

Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background. The title overlays a simplified map of the world rendered in dots and squares.

Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background with a rear cover flap unfolded to reveal a folded map.

Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background with a rear cover flap unfolded to reveal an unfolded map showing a stylised map of the world rendered in dots for sea and squares for landmass with lines showing the various journeys that each interviewee in the book took to get to Svalbard.

A close up detail shot of an unfolded map showing a stylised map of the world rendered in dots for sea and squares for landmass with lines showing the various journeys that each interviewee in the book took to get to Svalbard. On the side panel of the map is contextual information and statistics about immigration on Svalbard.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 14/05/2026

My latest book project for Artica Svalbard. A series of interviews with six people from seven different countries about their time on Svalbard; how they came to Svalbard, what made them stay and why new immigration legislation might one day force them to leave.

An inside spread of Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background. There is a portrait of a man on the left page and a pull quote and text on the facing page.

An close up detail of the inside spread of Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background. There is a portrait of a man on the left page and a pull quote and text on the facing page.

An inside spread of Svalbard's International Community, a book photographed on a plain background. There is a full page of text on the left page and a pull quote and text on the facing page. The text is in two languages, English and Norske which run parallel on the page. Each paragraph is the same amount of lines, the width of each paragraph differs down the page in order to make sure they are the same amount of lines in each language.

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 05/05/2026

Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice, edited by Ana Paula Paid & Carolyn F. Strauss. This has some great ideas and thinking. It really resonates with me. Since having kids I seem to be trying to work 3 times as quickly as I want to. This has helped me start slowing down

Slow Reader, A RESOURCE FOR DESIGN THINKING AND PRACTICE, edited by Ana Paula Pais & Carolyn F. Strauss, photographed on a wooden table

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Blitzed by Norman Ohler. This was ok but fairly tedious. 150 pages of “the Nazi army did awful stuff on meth” followed by 100 pages of “Hitler’s doctor gave him another injection of opiates and crushed up animal spines again and then put cocaine in his ears”

The book Blitzed by Normal Ohler photographed on a wooden table

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 27/04/2026

On iOs is it possible to style the default audio player away from that miserable little grey box without getting into an accessibility nightmare?

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 20/04/2026

Starting today at midday UK time. Tune in!

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 09/04/2026

He’ll be very pleased! He has a new one coming out with Noisy Crow soon but that’s for babies

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 02/04/2026

No, thank YOU! Write another one

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Jono Lewarne @cityeditionstudio.co.uk · 01/04/2026

Great. I’m planning a grant application to allow me some time to do a couple courses and have some experimentation time with learning Glyphs programmatically. Keen to see how you get on!

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