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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · 22h

Watch till the end to catch a glimpse of my contribution to @letterformarchive.org’s 10th anniversary celebration. It was such an honour to be invited to participate and be featured among stalwarts, past and present! 😇

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 1d

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · 27d

Burning the midnight oil 🕯️
Working on edits for the book 🧑🏽‍💻

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 27d

Even if you missed the Kickstarter you can still pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's INDIA STREET LETTERING! At a discount, for a limited time!

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Check out her Blag article for a sneak preview!

bl.ag/indian-sign-...

A Type Designer's Take on Indian Sign Painting

Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.

bl.ag

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · 27d

Ooh 👀 Look @typetogether.bsky.social!

Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 27d

In the 1980s, Futura was a typographic voice for activism. A great example was the Guerilla Girls.

Interview of the Collective (in French) www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/offre-aux...

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 27d

In the 1980s, Futura was a typographic voice for activism. A great example was the Guerilla Girls.

Interview of the Collective (in French) www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/offre-aux...

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 29d

I really feel like anyone still on Substack in 2025 is really going to regret it in 2027 when it fully turns into the closed-garden social network it is absolutely planning to be. Learn the lessons of Twitter and Instagram—pay for your platform, otherwise you're the product.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 29d

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women.

Someone, plz ask him.

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 29d

Our Kickstarter is at 87%!!

CLOBBER THE BANDIGOAT WITH COIN

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Screenshot of Kickstarter page showing $2614 pledged of our $3000 goal

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Sep 11

The finished pages of @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING are rolling in and they look AMAZING 😍

For a limited time, you can pre-order the book at a discounted price! Releasing in December!

www.blaft.com/collections/...

India Street Lettering

Currently in production! Releasing December 2025! Pre-order now! India’s cityscapes are a typography lover’s paradise. Take a short walk in any urban neighbourhood and you’ll find signboards in a riot...

www.blaft.com

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tech Policy Press is now accepting applications for our 2026 fellowship cohort. We're looking for journalists, researchers, and policy professionals to pursue independent reporting or analysis on urgent questions at the intersection of technology and democracy.

Learn more below!

Call for Applications: 2026 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program | TechPolicy.Press

The deadline for applications is October 15th, 2025.

www.techpolicy.press

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Sep 1

From yesterday's Economic Times!

Quicc, while the Ace of Base song is playing in your head, go pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's book

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

An article about Pooja Saxena's India Street Lettering project titled "I Saw the Sign"

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow! On a recent trip to Mumbai, I got a chance to visit Karfule artsandculture.google.com/story/karful... + www.instagram.com/karfule/?hl=en, one of the nicest petrol pumps I’ve encountered in India! It was designed by prolific Deco designer, GB Mhatre www.artdecomumbai.com/research/cra....

Karfule – Mumbai's Most Pristine Art Deco Petrol Pump - Google Arts & Culture

Karfule for car fuel

artsandculture.google.com

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · Aug 25

Some Putney #ghostsigns

Window Cleaning & Carpet Beating Co

Tarrant
Juvenile Outfitter

H Roffe & Sons
Contractors

Hair Cutting
and
Shaving Saloon

Ghost sign saying:

Window Cleaning & Carpet Beating Co

Ghost sign saying:

Tarrant
Juvenile
Outfitter

Ghost sign saying:

H Roffe & Sons
Contractors

Ghost sign saying:

Hair Cutting
and
Shaving Saloon

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · Aug 24

I continue to be astonished by the new ways that Global North counties invent to be barbaric and savage in their cruelty towards children.

meave (sumud, sister) @meave.bsky.social · Aug 23

the danish govt changed NOTHING after torturing kiera theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/29/controversial-danish-parenting-test-separated-greenlandic-mother-children; they’ve stolen another Indigenous newborn—literally ONE HOUR OLD—using the same “tests” (story ⬇️)

if you can: bit.ly/help-kiera

Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests

Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds

theguardian.com

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Scroll @scroll.in · Aug 23

The booking of all types of postal articles destined for the US will be temporarily suspended from Monday, except for letters or documents and gifts up to the value of $100, the Ministry of Communications said in a statement.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10858...

#PostalServices

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today is Madras Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_..., and I am marking it by ogling at one of my favourite signs from the city indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/adv... 🤩

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · Aug 20

Are you a musician who is comfortable doing your act on Zoom for 10 minutes to start our all-hands meetings?

blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

Calling All Musicians: Mini Concerts at the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · Aug 20

And this is not the only such screenshot I have 😜 I now have enough to start a little blooper folder.

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · Aug 20

Working on the India Street Lettering book, and InDesign is being InDesign 🫠

I promise the final printed copies won’t have spreads that look like this 🙈 so it should be safe to pre-order a copy from @blaft.bsky.social www.blaft.com/products/ind...

A screenshot from InDesign that shows the application malfunctioning and adding multicolored geometrical shapes to a page at random.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hey there! Do you love old school painted signage, indic script, neon lights, colourful lorry art, and creative letterforms?

Why not pre-order @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING, due out in December??

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Signboard for Amar Dresses (Hindi) (c) Pooja Saxena

Neon sign for Lalbagh Botanical Gardens (English & Kannada) (c) Pooja Saxena

Kochi bus art reading "Christ" in cool orange calligraphy. (c) Pooja Saxena

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Aug 15

Orijit Sen's Mapusa Mogi mural is 100% funded in under 3 days!

You can still get yourself or a friend painted into it:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/533...

Mapusa Mogi : A 100m long Ceramic Mural by Orijit Sen

An ongoing community-centric public art project in Goa

www.kickstarter.com

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today I'm coming back to E.L. Doctorow's description of writing a book as like driving a car at night: "you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Aug 6

(Reposting with better image resolution!)

From the trucks of Kochi to the bandwagons of Lucknow,
@matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING will showcase the country's vibrant public signage.

Releasing in December! Pre-order now for a discounted price!

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

"Daniel" -- Truck Art from Kochi, Kerala. (c) Pooja Saxena

"Aazaad Band" -- Bandwagon in Lucknow, UP. (c) Pooja Saxena

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · Aug 5

I have an entire photo-book *and* a photo-zine to layout, but all I can think of is new zine ideas I can work on next year. That is normal, right?

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Aug 4

OK we're planning to end Late Pledges on the India Street Lettering campaign tonight. One day left to reserve your book through Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Or pre-order on our site (this isn't going anywhere):

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

India Street Lettering: A Book

A journey through typographic craft and culture

www.kickstarter.com

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