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 […]
The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign. As the AI debate rages, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets initiative that I’ll undertake if my current Kickstarter campaign is successful, and how it would be different with AI. My plan is to make ten carvings in endangered […]
