Proximity artifacts
What is an intimate typography? Tracing, rubbing, touching, and the search for connection in distant forms
Survival by Sharing
Occasional writing, images, and updates by Paul Soulellis.
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Read 9 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 14 months.
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The typographic irregular
On the queer use* of type in fascist times
Cruising
Holding on to something until we can reach each other
The Permeable Closet
Early queer publishing and the right to variability
Reading
Paris Is Burning (1990), the notorious documentary by Jennie Livingston centered on ballroom culture in New York City in the mid- to late 1980s, is organized into 28 “chapters.” Each one is framed by a typographic moment—title cards containing individual words, names, or short phrases, plus one scrolling list.
Flagging*
Making legible with “world-words”
YouTube Typography
Scrubbing is a kind of reading
The future of typography is queer
Some past, present, and future approaches to liberated language
Keyboard Problem
Looking for queer +ypography
Monuments and ruins at Mashapaug Pond
Towards a queer embodiment of place