Ramón Raik

Calligrapher & Lettering | Graphic & Web Designer | Type enthusiast | Based in Barcelona

[Jeff Fabre @Jeff_like_Feff]

As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@ericlu I think u are the only one losing your mind for validation

[Bewinxed @Bewinxed]

@punk6529 One snafu coaxed themselves into a snafu.

No coax, no snafu, one lorem, one ipsum.

This isn't just a coax, this is a snafu for the ages.

The lorem wasn't just the point, it's all about the ipsum.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Swap the phones for newspapers and this is a subway photo from 1920.

A sociologist named Erving Goffman described exactly this in 1963. He called it civil inattention: the learned habit of acknowledging that a stranger exists, then pulling your attention back so you don't intrude on them. A quick glance, then you look away. In a space packed with people you will never see again, looking away is the courtesy.

It's the quiet contract that lets a few hundred strangers share a tight platform without friction. You signal "I see you, you're no threat, I won't bother you." Phones slotted neatly into that ritual. They are the most convincing prop anyone has ever had for performing it.

The newspaper did the same job for a century. Subway photos from the 1920s through the 1970s show entire rows of riders vanished behind broadsheets, every face covered, nobody speaking. Radio got blamed for ending conversation. So did the Walkman. So did the cheap paperback before either of them. Each new object inherited the same eulogy: this is the thing that finally isolated us.

Connection on a subway platform was always rare. Strangers waiting for a train kept to themselves long before anyone had a screen to disappear into. The phone's real footprint is at the dinner table and in the living room, the places where idle attention used to have nowhere to go and now always does.

The behavior in this photo is a hundred years old. The object in everyone's hands is the only part that keeps getting replaced.

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@sebacuri @macarenaluzi Escaparate en inglés en Barcelona? 🥀

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@michalmalewicz And Instrument serif too

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@i_sphinx_ @sixnfive The Nike's swoosh is only popular because Nike it's using it as its logo. Otherwise I don't see anyone using it

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A skinny font that was last popular during the Reagan presidency is suddenly everywhere again, and typography nerds are reeling. https://t.co/ao7cZf6RAc

[Hari Om @uixhariom]

which stage of designing your portfolio are you on?

-haven’t started
-just started
-nothing i design is good enough
-will design it in my next life

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@wongmjane Instrument serif is going to be outdated so fast, I'm already tired of seeing it everywhere

[roshnara @ferroshious]

as a designer you really have to learn to question everything. for example, the first step of my design process is questioning whether i should’ve become a designer in the first place.

[Joseph Alessio @alessio_joseph]

the new range rover logo just ruined my friday

[O.W. Root @owroot]

The nostalgia of Blockbuster is the nostalgia of limitation.

We don't actually want limitless options.

[Ramón Raik @RaikType]

@flowbertgustave @framer Milo

[RIO @riomadeit]

another day in the mines

[kel ❤️‍🔥 @keldotlauren]

graphic design