"Surely he could have stayed a beast?" I thought to myself. As a gawky twelve year old, I found myself feeling much more in common with Beast than with Belle, and thought it was a shame that he had to go back to being a handsome prince. I didn't realise it then, but I had reclaimed him as a disabled role model.īeauty and The Beast was another example. For the first time, I'd found someone I could relate to. But then he discovered that those big funny ears could make him fly (which in my opinion makes this the best disability film ever). His large ears made him clumsy and awkward, and the other elephants considered him a 'freak'. Like me, Dumbo had an extremely enlarged facial feature. The first time I did this was when I was nine years old and saw the classic Disney film Dumbo, about the elephant with big ears who finds he can fly. So I found myself reclaiming cartoon characters as disabled instead.
#CRIMSON CHIN FONTY TV#
Maybe they've let a few out now.īut when you don't know anyone in real life who's like you, and you don't see anyone on TV who's like you, well, it can do strange things to the mind of a child. But no, they were all in the homes! At least, that was the case when I lived there.
#CRIMSON CHIN FONTY FULL#
The town is so full of 'homes' for elderly and disabled people that you'd think it would be swarming with crips. Despite growing up in a seaside town on the South Coast that is so full of elderly people that it is 'fondly' nicknamed El Geriatrica, I rarely saw any disabled people in the streets. Growing up, I never saw anyone else that I recognised as disabled, as different, as being like me - famous or otherwise.
Let's face it, we have no Oprah to call our own. Even Ouch's Great Disabled Britons vote consisted of six dead people. We have a drought of famous disabled people that is so bad that I used to leap off my sofa in excitement whenever I saw that one-armed bloke in the B&Q advert. Firstly, you can hardly blame people for not acknowledging David Blunkett as a disabled person when he doesn't acknowledge this himself! And secondly, surely the reason why the 36 per cent couldn't name a famous disabled person is because there aren't many? Magnesit works great with illustrations, the generous shapes can be easily filled with strong imagery to great effect.īased on the best-selling Grim, Magnesit is a vast improvement of the concept with long awaited addition of lowercase, reworked proportions, spacing and kerning, expanded language support and useful icons to satisfy even the most demanding typographers’ needs.This didn't surprise me at all. Three distinct styles expand the possibilites even further: the straight to the point Regular, the friendly Soft and the determined Hard styles share metrics across related Magnesit Stencil and Magnesit Dark families, so you can mix and match to achieve exactly the effect you need. With a very tall x-height, wide language support and minimalistic yet playful appearance, it can take on any serious typographic job. Impressive headlines are its specialty, but it feels right at home used in packaging, branding and poster design. Sporty and brawly, Magnesit creates impact everywhere it lands.
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