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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 14/11/2025

Actually it’s just a direct copy! From the 1920 silent film.

Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 30/09/2025

it’s like taking a rotting trump steak out of the garbage and wiping it off with a 1997 think different press release and putting it out there like it’s gonna generate 100 billion

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 30/09/2025

is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 06/09/2025

extra space in the new seal, too

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 01/09/2025

Looking at these ridiculous images that the US Dept of Labor is posting over on X and questioning how to teach graphic design anymore

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 27/08/2025

this administration is about breaking things apart as a domination strategy, dismantling to put loyalists in place, and these sites are no exception. gebbia is the new musk and it smells like failure, not progress, like the cheap gold trimmings in the oval office

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 27/08/2025

honestly, of all the ways this kind of design propaganda could’ve gone, “going bigger than President Nixon” was not on my list

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 26/08/2025

Come!Unity Press in the documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite / recently learned that she printed her famous questionnaire there, also found this photo of her printing with Mercure in a 1978 issue of Off Our Backs

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 11/08/2025

UGH or maybe it really is this obvious

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 11/08/2025

who designs this? ofc there’s the obvious nazi fraktur connections, but I think it’s more likely aiming for this vibe

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 11/08/2025

the latest from homeland security

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/07/2025

more from the Come!Unity archive at NYU from when I visited in december; they have hundreds of items that were printed there

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/07/2025

and I think we're changing the title, from Queer Typographies to Survival by Sharing, which comes from Come!Unity Press (NYC 1972–80). I did some digging recently, difficult to find much about them, but after searching their name for years now, tried searching their phone #, and this got me further

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 07/07/2025

more about Katrina en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina... including Ted Kerr’s 2020 piece on early HIV/AIDS media histories, which is how I learned about her www.thebody.com/article/new-...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 07/07/2025

the AIDS Quilt panel for educator and activist Katrina Haslip; it looks like there’s an actual braid of hair sewn into the quilt, above the “n” in Katrina, and the letterforms seem to be adorned with hair, too

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 22/06/2025

When Palantir had DEI. since scrubbed from their site. can’t believe these are real but it seems they are.

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/06/2025

Next Friday in NYC! so excited to join Nat Pyper and the legenday Alan Bell for a conversation and font launch at O-R-G www.o-r-g.com/shop/a-queer...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/06/2025

US printers issued a boycott against German-made fascist typography in 1939 (found at www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2014/06/boyc...)

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 06/06/2025

Was researching Instrument Serif, used at White House .gov (but designed for Instrument design agency), and realized that the default text used by Google Fonts is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights fonts.google.com/specimen/Ins...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 04/06/2025

Obama Gotham, Trump Gotham, Trump Arial, Chisholm Franklin Gothic

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 04/06/2025

looking at the design and typography of Project 2025: Chronicle and Gotham

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 07/05/2025

just adding Queer.Archive.Work, our own tiny volunteer-run collective, to the very long list of arts orgs de-funded by the NEA—would have been our first NEA grant, our largest ever, & would have created a new job here in RI. I love who we are & we’ll continue to support each other no matter what <3

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 06/05/2025

final paragraph: “the world view which underlies typing will not survive the transition” flusserstudies.net/sites/www.fl...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 06/05/2025

Am I the last to know that Flusser wrote an unpublished essay “On Typography”—and that it’s all about typing?

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 03/05/2025

Here’s the full list of 2025 NEA grantees in Rhode Island. I’d like to know what the total loss is, out of the $300k. Who else had funding withdrawn besides us (QAW)? What will the state do to compensate for such a loss in the arts in our tiny community?

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 03/05/2025

as well as projects supporting “HBCUs, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal communities,” in other words, re-segregation

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 30/04/2025

He expanded the statement in 2009, published in The Vignelli Canon, where I think he clarified his view, which was that he was not interested in typography as an expressive medium (“I do not like typography intended as an expression of the self ”); I don’t think this was about availability / access

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 30/04/2025

first time seeing Working Girls by Lizzie Borden, and Molly’s photos in the film are by Nan Goldin

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 29/04/2025

her definition of ‘the new homonormativity’ as “a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption,” to “redefine gay equality against the ‘civil rights agenda’ and ‘liberationism,’ as access to the institutions of domestic privacy, the ‘free’ market, and patriotism”

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 28/04/2025

“And I want to point out that when I write Aids, I don't capitalize it, which I see as a symbolic gesture of undermining the power of the illness . . . to treat it less respectfully, because it massacred my community.” Juan Queiroz, archival activist artistsspace.org/media/pages/...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 28/04/2025

marveling at how extreme this was (Massimo Vignelli statement about typography, 1991)

A poster for an event at the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 1991, with a statement by Massimo Vignelli about typography.

“In the new computer age the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. So come and see A Few Basic Typefaces.”

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 27/04/2025

TIL about the Apple Last Resort Font, which kicks in with these glyphs when Unicode characters are missing, designating its category only; there are 5,372 glyphs in this font

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 27/04/2025

I wonder who designed this in 1966, with a red fleuron, purple asterisk, and blue triangle embossed on the cover, and the doubled S

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 27/04/2025

some Pauline to get me going today

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 24/04/2025

Bread and Puppet on their spring tour “The Obligation to Live,” saw them last night in New Bedford & Secret Mall Apartment the night before. back to back art in spaces far far away from the art market, reality anti-war life-living art for gathering in resistance, art against capital, I needed this

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 21/04/2025

“Masculine Printing,” by Theodore Low De Vinne, from American Bookmaker, 1892 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qyb0e...

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 17/04/2025

I’ve been scrubbing through the QAW library all afternoon, pulling everything I want to write about. what an abundance, it’s too much. not complaining

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 17/04/2025

today’s the day I learned that Gran Fury’s name and logo are lifted from the Plymouth Gran Fury police car

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 16/04/2025

was poking around the library at queer.archive.work and found these prints by Angela Davis Fegan, who sent them to us when we first opened

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/03/2025

heading over to portugal to work with Nina Paim and Bikini Books all week, and then there’s this! a beautiful event in Porto on 29 March with me, Ece Canlı, and design students from EKA in Estonia

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 20/03/2025

thinking about the history of skywriting, airborne leaflets, propaganda from the sky, and now a new kind of weaponized typography

Image of a drone formation over Tampa, FL spelling out a propaganda message

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 16/03/2025

watching Space is the Place—wow!

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