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Please come along to this if you're in/near London! There'll be three interesting talks plus a drinks reception after (well, two interesting talks and one talk by me)

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 22h

Love this mug — a keepsake from the York Wayzgoose. And the sunshine was nice today.

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 22h

Sunday Lettering edition from Stamford, Lincolnshire #street #typography #tiles #uk

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's the legendary book Richard Ardagh will be talking about at the Letter Exchange lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/letter-exc... In person 🍷 and online

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the steps on the way from calligraphy sketches to the design and final product. CMYK Calligraphy. #original #design #cmyk #implementation #cambridge #uk

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Letter Exchange @letter-exchange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re back! Our first event of the season is: Type Archived: Inside London’s extraordinary Type Archive. Join us for an evening with Richard Ardagh as he takes us on a visual journey through one of the world’s most remarkable collections of typographic history. Tickets: letterexchange.org/events

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This could be a stained glass 🌞

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Moving on with my CMYK series. Work in progress 🩵🩷💛🖤 #cmykcalligraphy #series #design #pattern #veraevstafieva

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not sure why this (grave?)stone looks this way #lettercarving #dates #stone #StamfordUK

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's still almost one week till the end of September — to watch the lectures recordings free of charge! Though, I've got a season ticket which is going to give me an access to the recordings too, that's new this year. Watch, listen, discuss :) #typography #lettercarving #calligraphy #lectures

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now, as I've finished with the lecture, I can spend some time working on the calligraphic ideas that were waiting for me. That's only the beginning. #brush #calligraphy #design

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Beatrice Warde memorial lecture, The Art of Listening — I had an honour to be invited to speak at St Bride Foundation, and showed two projects in detail. Sketches, insights, design decisions, and final designs ✨ Thanks to Becky Chilcott, to all the speakers and all the attendees! #typography

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mmm, lovely walk after an important talk 😊 Sniffing wild apples, sorting cultural impressions.

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm curious — what fables are the most famous in English? Is it a well-known genre at all? #English #fables #literature

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🍷and a keepsake from Cardozo-Kindersley workshop

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminder: one more week to apply for the Nottebohm fellowship for #BookHistory research in Antwerp! For an idea of some of the research conducted using this travel fund, check out the recording of last week's Nottebohm Talks on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA2L...

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Online Nottebohm Talks September 15 2016

YouTube video by Museum Plantin-Moretus

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In person and online tonight 👋 7 speakers! And they all create fantastic letterforms 😯

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

100! Printed and arrived at my studio. The keepsakes for The Art of Listening lecture attendees 👋 See you Wednesday 23 September at St Bride Foundation ✨ at Beatrice Warde memorial lecture. Honoured to be a part of the wonderful lineup! #typography #typedesign #bespoke #typespecimen #fonts

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Someone likes your Fonts In Use contribution!" I love this. (Email subject) #typography

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A font is an orchestra, ready to perform someone else's music! Vera Evstafieva, type designer #typography #quote #essence #font #veraevstafieva

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Calligraphy is live music. Calligraphy is a performance! Vera Evstafieva, type designer #calligraphy #quote #essense #performance #veraevstafieva

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A few pages from the book I'm going to show at the lecture at St Bride. "Fair Ladies" series, 1930s, Mikhail Sokolov I designed lettering for the titles (2018), and will be ready to tell the story and show the process behind the scenes. #art #lettering #typography #bookdesign

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My moulds are not in use today. That's just an apple pie 🔥

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alright — here's another Sunday harvest of street name plates! I hope this set will be approved as a neutral and beautiful one 🙂 Seen in Ely #typography #street #design #cast #cambridgeshire

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Just picked up delivery of my patches from @spellingmistakescostlives and this was among the little extras inside. Maybe the time has come for version 2.0 based on the logotypes of some of the big tech/AI companies out there?

Card that reads "Don't believe everything billionaires tell you" with each word set in the masthead/logotype of a different major right wing British newspaper.

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Feeling rich and happy — I received a few more copies of Forum journal, so can open my article on every spread at once now 😄 And even happier — because I get response on my thoughts from readers! Is there anything more precious than a dialog and understanding?! #typography #article #design

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No... How could they not wait for me! 😭 #Baskerville! #Bitter! "This brewery is no longer in business"

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here it is, my yesterday's drawing. 30x40 cm paper, ink and brush. I didn't draw since winter time — that's probably the reason why the picture is breathing and free. What's better... framing it or putting into the folder for a while #art #ink #flower

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah yes, my adventure with the tiles began here, in the Round Church in Cambridge, I noticed that some letters were flipped, and received the photos of the Nottingham alphabet tiles in response 😊 #lettering #tiles #alphabet #cambridgeuk

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovely old milepost I met in Tarporley high street the other day #Cheshire

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It was an autumn after Denis Brown's calligraphy workshop when I practiced Celtic + Italic hybrid style — writing Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking" poem. #calligraphy #italic #celtic #poetry

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Post, delete, repost. Because it's probably OK to write fatique instead of fatigue when you feel it :) Scratch paper is good enough, tested. #hand #lettering #typography

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 15/09/2026

I'm accidentally needing to replace my camera, so I need to sell something. Make me an offer: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop 10% of all takings to SalivaryGlandCancer.uk

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's unbelievable what nonsense a poisoned brain can start producing... Slightly better today.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

During renovations of the Halifax Minster's unique Jacobean box pews, these metal nameplates which originally designated private seat ownership for prominent local families between the 17th and 19th centuries were carefully removed. The nameplates were preserved and are

Ancient pew name plates in Halifax Minster. The oldest dates from 1615. There are still fine examples of Jacobean Box pews to be seen in the Minster today. Image Scrappy Annie CC BY-NC 2.0

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A full evening of short lectures, reflecting on the Art of Listening. Type design, calligraphy, letter carving, typography and more. In person and online. St Bride Foundation. 23 September. I'll be there 😊 Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture #typography billetto.co.uk/e/the-art-of...

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The Art of Listening: The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture

The Art of Listening The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026 Location...

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Funny numbers — it's 13 years since we married on 13 September 2013 — otherwise I wouldn't post this on bsky among politics and other stuff. Some people are superstitious about 13, so it was easier to get an appointment for this day 😅

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hope you're having a great weekend! I'd like to say that I'll be speaking together with a bunch of wonderful creative people at St Bride Foundation very soon, at Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture, and I've got a couple of free tickets (in person or online) — please DM me if you're interested ☀️

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