What I’m up to

At Dalton Maag I’m working on custom type projects for different clients, across scripts including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Outside of work I’m slowly building out this site — better writing, better structure, more things to click on.

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  National Letters A compact study of how languages and scripts shape national identities, with case studies on Turkey, Israel, Georgia, and Ethiopia. Very close to the kind of questions I keep returning to in type design: who gets represented, and how. Search ↗
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  Otherlands Thomas Halliday reconstructs extinct ecosystems and deep time, moving through ancient worlds that existed long before ours. It is science writing with a strong sense of atmosphere, almost like walking through vanished landscapes. Search ↗
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  Abroad in Japan Chris Broad writes about a decade of living across Japan, from rural classrooms to neon Tokyo and all forty-seven prefectures. It is funny and observant, but also useful for understanding the small frictions of living inside another culture. Search ↗
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  Sunstruck William Rayfet Hunter's debut follows a young man drawn into a wealthy family's orbit over one French summer, and the reckoning that follows back in London. Sharp on class, race, and desire, and shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. Search ↗

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  LUX Rosalía's fourth album, built with the London Symphony Orchestra and sung across a dozen languages, tracing a group of saints and mystics. Maximalist after the minimalism of MOTOMAMI, and the most ambitious thing she's made. Search ↗
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  Stardew Valley 1.5 Stardew Valley is the coziest of cozy games — plant something, water it, go to bed, repeat — and ConcernedApe's soundtrack matches it beat for beat: gentle loops built for pottering, not for drama. It's become my kerning music, low enough to sit under hours of nudging pairs half a unit at a time without ever pulling focus. Search ↗

Books I’ve already finished that left a mark on me in one way or another, and the ones I keep recommending to anyone who asks.

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  A Little Life Four friends in New York across three decades, and above all Jude, whose past comes to the surface slowly. Long, brutal and tender at the same time, and impossible to shake off once you've finished it. Search ↗
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  The Politics of Design A (not so) global manual for visual communication: how colours, symbols, typefaces and images carry cultural and political assumptions we rarely question. Essential for anyone who designs for people outside their own context. Search ↗
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  The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller retells the Iliad through the bond between Achilles and Patroclus, from boyhood in Phthia to the walls of Troy. Everyone who pushed it on me was right to. Search ↗
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  Counterpunch How type was made in the sixteenth century, punch by punch, and what that still teaches about designing typefaces now. Written by a type designer who learned to cut punches himself. Search ↗
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  The Stroke Noordzij's theory of writing: the contrast in letters explained through the stroke of the pen, translation, expansion and rotation. Short, dense and opinionated, and it changes how you look at every letter you draw. Search ↗

Journaling, bullet journals, and productivity systems: mostly how small daily rituals can make work and life feel less scattered and more intentional.

Also: the best letters in London, and where to find the city’s best cinnamon roll.

London, United Kingdom. Originally from Logroño, Spain.