The Mende Kikakui syllabary comes home to the village of Nyandeyama, which hasd kept it alive for decades. In early 2026, 156 stalwart people backed a Kickstarter campaign I called Bringing It Back Home. As I wrote on the campaign home page, “Most minority […]
Dear friends, neighbours, colleagues, and followers: Thanks to my new partnership with the Sol Creative Foundry in Dry Drayton, a village just northwest of Cambridge, I’m going to be offering an exhibition of my Endangered Alphabets artwork and furniture and a wood lettercarving intensive workshop, both at the delightful Sol Creative space. My work […]
The latest episode in the increasingly unhinged behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign. Running Kickstarter campaigns is like planting a garden. Each time you think, “This year I’ll get it right.” Instead, every year you simply make a different set of mistakes. In crowdfunding, unlike gardening, the faults and shortcomings are all my […]
The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign. First loves and first Kickstarter campaigns are the same: clumsy, enthusiastic, uninformed, unforgettable. My first campaign set out to raise $8000 to travel around the world carving indigenous scripts. Think about that for a moment. Around the world, stopping […]
