James Cartwright

Writer, editor, art director, also baking niche grains. Currently @weaponsofreason, @wetransfer, @A24, South West Grain Network etc.

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

Had a gosh-darn blast editing and art directing these two books with @A24, @dunkwun, @seanilew and @feliciachiao. Both of them get super weird, but kids are super weird.

[A24 @A24]

Start em' young. Two original kids books by Daniel Kwan are here featuring original illustrations by @feliciachiao and @seanilew 📚 https://t.co/kXNY0nGoEu

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@clairehly Totnes' greatest true crime saga.

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@aylaangelos @itsnicethat Good luck!

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

My friends @faberfutures and @ginkgobioworks are launching https://t.co/3Ab4gzFo8L, the world's first biodesign brand built to nurture a new material culture for products that embody a planet-first lifestyle. Exciting things coming soon! (including some lovely editorial 💅)

[Creative Access @_CreativeAccess]

Some great musings from @jdmcartwright x @WeTransfer on how you publish a book #publishing https://t.co/gS1oRIZLm4

[Trees for Streets @TreesforStreets]

The value of an (existing) tree🌳

We love planting new trees, but there's NOTHING as precious as an old tree. The word graphic from
@Barchamtrees says it all..

Visualise a 100 year old beech, almost 20 metres high and with a treetop diameter of 12 metres. It’s got 600,000 leaves which convert its base of 120 square metres into some 1,200 square metres of leaf-surface.

Due to the physical structure of the leaves themselves, this amounts to a total surface area of 14,000 square metres for gaseous exchange, which equals the area of two football pitches.

On a sunny day, this tree converts 9,400 litres, i.e. 18 kilogrammes, of carbon dioxide. With a carbon dioxide concentration of 0.03% in the air, almost 36,000 cubic metres of air have to flow through these leaves.

The leaves also filter out many airborne particles like bacteria, fungal spores, dust and other harmful substances. At the same time the tree evaporates almost 400 litres of water per day and in doing so it humidifies the air.

Furthermore, through photosynthesis, the tree produces 13 kilograms of oxygen, which equals the needs of 10 people. Moreover, the tree produces 12 kilograms of sugar on a single day, from which it develops all its organic substances.

Some of these substances are accumulated as starch, others are used to build up the tree’s new wood.

If the tree is chopped down, because it must give way for a new road or someone has complained about the shade from the tree or just because the space is needed for a new shed, one would have to plant some 2,000 new trees, each with a tree top volume of one cubic metre in order to compensate fully for the loss of the tree. The cost of this would amount to roughly £150,000.

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@guyshrubsole Hi Guy, looking to talk to you re: Lost Rainforests for a media thing and wondering where's the best email to reach you?

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@LostRainforests What's the best email to reach Guy on for a media/article request? DMs are open. Thanks!

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Rishi Sunak has unveiled a plan to authorise more than 100 new licences to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea, pledging to “max out”  the UK’s oil and gas reserves, according to a front page @guardian story.

https://t.co/BPTuq2IUxZ

[Drawn & Quarterly @DandQ]

Coming Soon: THE FLOWER'S FAULT by María Medem, translated by Daniela Ortiz and Aleshia Jensen, published by D+Q!

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

Looking for a writer to interview a menswear designer next week in Hackney Wick. Is this you? DM me! #journorequest

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

Spoke to some truly lovely folks @RoughTradeBooks and @ChronicleBooks about how to get a book published for @WeTransfer. Does this platform work anymore? Will anyone read this? Who knows. Publish a book instead of a tweet.

https://t.co/Bg3qm3mdvu

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@micha_frazer Really looking forward to this!

[Sophie Yeo @some_yeo]

A nerve-wracking moment. I'm returning to work properly (ish) after having my baby.

And that means that @inkcapjournal, which has been sadly neglected of late, is relaunching.

I've published a little article on what that means here.
https://t.co/C7f8P0C1NL

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@KishWidyaratna hoping to reach you for an interview for @WeTransfer. What's the best way to get in touch?

[The Guardian @guardian]

All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates review – a house is not a home https://t.co/VyLYmdb18N

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

I really really believe we should and can produce food in ways that deliver more nature, way more of it

But even more important than that is feeding everyone in a socially just way - can we please stop taking food production for granted it’s literally a life and death issue

[Michelle Urra @MichelleUrra_]

Created a series of illustrations for @WeTransfer! ✨ It's for @jdmcartwright's brilliantly written column on creative burnout, which I can really recommend reading here: https://t.co/NRFq7vEs5G

[James Cartwright @jdmcartwright]

@TEEDinosaurs Would you be up for a wee chat about burnout for a feature I'm writing for @WeTransfer? Speaking to folks who've been sapped by the industry they're in and had to do things differently.