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As the title suggests, this page is where all the bits and pieces that don’t have a natural home end up. There’s plenty on Jim’s involvement with writers’ group 26 and awards, as well as other side projects.
26 letters.
15/11/2008-
This was a collaboration between 26 and the International Society of Typgraphic Designers, which resulted in a series of 26 posters and a book. Writers and designers were randomly paired and allocated a letter of the alphabet. Jim was lucky with both. Derek Birdsall and i. After a couple of long lunches, they hatched their plan – a first-person short story told by the egomaniacal ‘Omar Sharif of the alphabet’, set as a shadow cast by the letterform. As a finishing touch it was beautifully printed on a reflective, mirror-like surface, so that viewers could see their faces as they read the text. Derek and Jim’s poster became part of an ambitious British Library exhibition which ran during the latter part of 2004. You can read the full text of the poster on the British Library site here, or find out more about i and the other posters in the accompanying book, 26 Letters: Illuminating the Alphabet.