Meanwhile #016

Songs about fonts, semicolons and the dreaded shrinks.

1. What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays – Lucy Mangan on the enduring appeal of The Twits.

2. People all over the world are getting semicolon tattoos to draw attention to mental health. Seems like rather tenuous symbolism to me, but I like the sentiment.

3. Jason Booher says that being a book cover designer is possibly the best job in the world. He's not wrong.

4. Tobias Frere-Jones on the subtle optical illusions hidden in the finest typeface design.

5. Create your own records for Fisher-Price's iconic toy turntable. You can keep your Apple Music – this is the future of music, you mark my words.

6. Why don't you just turn off your television set and watch Stuart Bache's Book Cover of the Week instead?

7. "Not every hill is a hill to die on" – the bulleted wisdom of pianist-turned-designer Peter Mendelsund.

8. Songs about fonts. The world needs more of this sort of thing.

9. Winkety wink wink – 35 years of i-D covers. Impressive that they've stuck with the emoticon-inspired portrait gimmick this whole time.

10. Where is the centre of London?

That is all.